Un groupe post-punk polonais dénonce populisme, haine et négation de la Shoah.
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, chanteur et compositeur de Trupa Trupa – marqué par la déportation de sa famille au camp de Stutthof – parle de la vérité au pouvoir à travers une poésie punk.
Polish band Trupa Trupa brings post-punk and dark poetry to Desert Daze and beyond.
In a backstage garden, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski carried around a large, overflowing plastic bag full of intense cold medicines. The lead singer of the Polish rock band Trupa Trupa had caught a cold from his 8-month-old son before the group’s gig at one of Poland’s most popular summer festivals.
“Holocaust denial and antisemitism is rising around the world but, of course, in Poland too. The nature of evil is that it’s immortal… I hope things will get better, but that is why we have to protest.”
The Polish rock band Trupa Trupa, which recently toured the UK and will return in January, are unlike other acts in their readiness to directly tackle perhaps the most troublingly complex element of their country’s history: the Holocaust.
Channeling a wary mixture of dread and hope, the Polish indie rockers tighten the slackness of previous records into a potent fusion of post-hardcore and shoegaze.[…] More than just revel in the tension between medium and message, Trupa Trupa are the rare dystopian post-punk band to embrace optimism and levity as necessary survival mechanisms.[…] Trupa Trupa may not have the perfect prescription for a better world, but they welcome you to imagine one together.
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Songs that feel like dreams, charged with spasms of noise, gut-punch bass lines and hypnotic melodies.
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With shades of Sonic Youth, Radiohead and the kind of rainy, overcoat-wearing bands that Manchester was so good at producing in the early Eighties, Trupa Trupa jump from hypnotic trawls (Satellite) to shouty angular stomps (Turn), while bringing some indefinable quality that can come only from their lives. As revitalising as it is odd, Of the Sun is one of those curios that is really quite exciting, through sheer character and energy alone. 4/5.
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Off-kilter melodies, dense instrumentation and lyrical explorations of the darkest side of the human condition.
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Just really dug them a lot. Trupa Trupa. A band that is at once very experimental but also deeply commited to the kind of noise that gets you out of your seat. You can get the sense that there is a lot of social protest, a lot of noise on behalf of the issues that matter. This is Trupa Trupa. The new album is called Of the Sun out in September. This is a track that really has a great sort of heavy metal Radiohead vibe about it and I really dig it. Keep an eye of that record.
David Fricke, Rolling Stone, SiriusXM
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Trupa Trupa Convert Historical Trauma into Post-Punk Catharsis on Of The Sun.
Zach Schonfeld, Paste Magazine
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This gripping and energetic record packs a serious punch!
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Torres, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker and Trupa Trupa! Our song “Dream about” is featured in the new episode of NPR Music’s All Songs Considered – The Week’s Best New Songs! “They’re one of these bands that are super super loud and punky, but then, all of a sudden, it’s melodic” says Bob Boilen!
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Trupa Trupa continue to hit the mark as they experiment with simplification without excising the art from their rock.
Ian King, The Line of Best Fit
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Of The Sun pośród najlepszych właśnie wydanych albumów wg radia NPR w cyklu New Music Friday! „The band Trupa Trupa has an album out now called Of The Sun. And it is a great one!” stwierdza Robin Hilton.
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Trupa Trupa’s Of The Sun takes apparently simple songs and brutally smashes them up. A gripping slog with beautiful, luminous moments that stay with you long after you’ve stopped listening.
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Of the Sun draws on wider strands of what could be broadly called “21st century post-rock”…The epic punch of Trupa Trupa’s songs feels like it has a grimmer edge, one that betrays a sense that things may not be as you want them to be. All too apt for the current times.
Ned Raggett, Bandcamp Daily [Album of the Day]
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This Polish band’s fifth album is a solid set of psych-tinged post-punk with a dark, atmospheric sound featuring ominous guitars, stern rhythms and haunting melodies.
Don Yates, New Music Reviews, KEXP
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The Polish quartet reaches new hypnotic heights… As summer fades and the rains cometh, we recommend grabbing this moody delight and getting lost for a little while. It’s well worth the trip.
Sam Walker-Smart, Clash Magazine
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A band that unlock many things in their listeners. Their music is certainly adept at opening up a number of intriguing psychic contradictions, or emotional opposites.
Richard James Foster, Louder Than War
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Can’t wait for trupatrupaband’s new album, Of the Sun, due this September!
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I am loving the music of Trupa Trupa out of Poland.
Jeszcze w tym roku nakładem Biura Literackiego ukaże się premierowa książka Grzegorza Kwiatkowskiego „Karl-Heinz M.”. Będzie to już czwarta publikacja autora w wydawnictwie ze Stronia Śląskiego i Kołobrzegu. Wydanie zbioru wierszy zbiega się z jesienną premierą płyty „Of The Sun” zespołu Trupa Trupa, którego członkiem jest Grzegorz Kwiatkowski.
Wydany w 2017 roku tom „Sową” domknął trylogię, na którą składają się również zbiory „Radości” (2013) i „Spalanie” (2015). W książce „Karl-Heinz M.” autor kontynuuje strategię prowadzenia poetyckiego notatnika o sytuacjach granicznych i skrajnych w duchu „Obrazów mimo wszystko” Didi-Hubermana i „Umarłych ze Spoon River” Edgara Lee Mastersa.
Nowy zbiór Grzegorza Kwiatkowskiego, który zadebiutował w 2011 roku trylogią „Powinni się nie urodzić”, w pewnym sensie przenosi nas z terenu historii na obszar tragedii domowej i pytań o antynatalizm. W książce „Karl-Heinz M.” odnaleźć można także głosy ofiar eugeniki, projektu T4, tragicznych rozbitków „Shoah” Claude’a Lanzmanna.
Autor równolegle rozwija zagraniczną karierę zespołu Trupa Trupa, który współpracuje z Glitterbeat Records, Lovitt Records, Sub Pop Records, Moorworks, Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records, Ici d’ailleurs, Anteną Krzyku, a także własną karierę poetycką za sprawą publikacji w takich tytułach, jak „Modern Poetry in Translation”, „New Poetry in Translation”, „Poetry Wales”, „Tidskriften Kritiker” i „Lichtungen”.
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„Poland’s Trupa Trupa Share Striking ‘Another Day’ Video.
Poland’s Trupa Trupa have a deconstructive approach to songwriting.
A group who break guitar music down to its components, they re-assemble these shards of noise into strange pieces of art.
New album ‘Of The Sun’ lands on September 13th, and it’s another dazzling dose of invention from a band whose reputation is extending across the continent.
Sep 24 → The Hague [NL], Paard
Sep 25 → Paris [FR], Point Éphémère
Sep 27 → London [UK], Sebright Arms [with Design a Wave]
Oct 8 → New York [USA], Union Pool [with Honduras]
Oct 9 → Washington DC [USA], Pie Shop [with Tone]
Oct 11 → Palm Springs [USA], Alibi
Oct 12 → Lake Perris [USA], Desert Daze Festival
Oct 13 → San Francisco [USA], Independent [with Altin Gun]
Oct 14 → Los Angeles [USA], Echo [with Temples]
Nov 06 → Warsaw [PL], Pogłos
Nov 07 → Poznan [PL], Meskalina
Nov 08 → Gdansk [PL], Drizzly Grizzly
Nov 09 → Wroclaw [PL], D.K. Luksus
Nov 10 → Cracow [PL], Klub RE
Nov 11 → Košice [SK], Tabačka Kulturfabrik
Nov 27 → Tourcoing [FR], Festival Haute Fréquence
Nov 28 → Nyon [CH], La Parpenthese
Nov 29 → Basel [CH], Hirscheneck
Nov 30 → Winterthur [CH], Albani [with Glaston]
Dec 02 → Brighton [UK], The Hope & Ruin
Dec 04 → Glasgow [UK], The Hug & Pint
Dec 05 → Leeds [UK], Hyde Park Book Club
Dec 07 → Nijmegen [NL], Upon The My Oh My Festival
Dec 09 → Copenhagen [DK], Huset
Dec 11 → Groningen [NL], VERA
Gideon Coe zaprezentował premierowo na antenie BBC Radio 6 Music utwór Another Day z nadchodzącej płyty Of The Sun.
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Steve Lamacq zagrał utwór “Mangle” z nadchodzącej płyty “Of The Sun” w audycji 6 Music Recommends na antenie BBC Radio 6 Music.
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