Times Of Israel just published a list of “A dozen posts that moved and shook us in 2022” and appeal “The forgotten ghetto in the heart of Gdansk” is among them.
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Best albums of 2022 / BBC Radio 6
“Uniforms” single, and BBC session, are on Mark Riley’s “The Best Of The Year” BBC Radio 6 music show.
Best albums of 2022 / WXPN
B FLAT A album is on this great end of the year WXPN summary.
Sound Opinions
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.
Sold out
The first edition of “Crops”, published by Rain Taxi, is sold out!
Best albums of 2022 / Sound Opinions
B FLAT A is one of the best album of 2022 according to Greg Kot of Sound Opinions.
Best albums of 2022 / Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone
Such a great end of the year list created by Simon Vozick-Levinson, deputy music editor at Rolling Stone. And B FLAT A is at number 19.
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.”