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Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, who is a gifted poet who doesn’t overstay his welcome, has a very terse, very minimalist, in his presentation, but is very dark, stark in his commentary on the outside world.

Greg Kot, Sound Opinions

Book Press / Peter Constantine

Γκζέκος Κβιατκόβσκι: «Οι συγγραφείς είμαστε ένα σφουγγάρι που ρουφάει φωνές και αφηγήσεις απ’ το χτες»

Συνομιλία του Πολωνού ποιητή και μουσικού Grzegorz Kwiatkowski με τον μεταφραστή της ποιητικής συλλογής του «Θέρισμα» Peter Constantine που κυκλοφορεί στα ελληνικά από τις εκδόσεις του περιοδικού Τεφλόν. Φωτογραφία: Tomasz Pawluczuk.

Stereogum / B FLAT A

Trupa Trupa hail from Poland, where for over a decade they’ve been using serrated post-punk to draw connections between their country’s fascist past and the present day. According to singer Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, their new B FLAT A is about “the wasteland of human nature where hatred and genocide are not just distant reverberations of Central European history but still resonate in contemporary reality.” Out today, it’s a tense and explosive listen brimming with heady ideas, occasionally branching off in surprising directions like the psych-pop-tinged single “Uniforms.” Perhaps appropriately, the album’s baseline sound calls back to the Cold War era, the bridge between that old uncomfortable history and now.

Crops reviewed by John Bradley

It’s not often you open a poetry chapbook and in the “Foreword” are greeted with such a chilling anecdote:

“In the summer of 2015, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski and his friend Rafal Wojczal made a gruesome discovery. Walking through the forest outside the Stutthof Concentration Camp where Kwiatkowski’s grandfather had been interned during the Second World War, the two young men came upon several thousand old shoes. These shoes once belonged to those the Nazis brought here and then brutally murdered.”