Imagine the Beatles and Velvet Underground reading Hannah Arendt while in the studio with film director Michael Haneke. That’s Trupa Trupa in a nutshell, a Gdańsk-based band who spent the last decade perfecting their balancing act between lyrical songs and crushing psychedelia.
“The new Trupa Trupa album B Flat A is really good.” – Henry Rollins
I don’t often review poetry on this blog. The last — and, in fact, the only — time I did was Andrew McLuhan’s Written Matter last February. But, once again, words without music, or with music entirely in the head, call.
Gdańsk, Poland’s Trupa Trupa just released their new album B FLAT A, that, according to frontman Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, explores “the wasteland of human nature where hatred and genocide are not just distant reverberations of Central European history but still resonate in contemporary reality,” and does so via visceral komische and post-punk inspired rock. You can listen to the whole album below.
Western University i City Lights Bookshop zapraszają na wydarzenie:
Confronting Hate: Artistic responses to history, genocide and rising right wing nationalism. A conversation with – Grzegorz Kwiatkowski – a Gdańsk-based poet, musician, and the lead singer of the internationally acclaimed art-rock band, Trupa Trupa.
Spotkanie odbędzie się w środę, 26 stycznia i poprowadzi je Amanda Grzyb.
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Trupa Trupa’s Dream of Peace. Polish rock band’s new single “Uniforms” is a clarion call for humanism in a hateful world.
Polish band Trupa Trupa will release new album B Flat A on February 11 and they’ve just shared the very well-shot video for new single “Uniforms.” The song starts as airy indie rock but devolves into a good bit of noisy fun by the end.
Uniwersytet Kalifornijski w Berkeley serdecznie zaprasza na wydarzenie:
“Crops”: Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Polish poet and musician, in conversation with Jenny Browne, 2017-18 Poet Laureate of the State of Texas
The Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at UC Berkeley invites you to a conversation about the poetry of Grzegorz Kwiatkowski and his latest book ‘Crops’, published by Rain Taxi. Kwiatkowski and Browne will read from their respective works and discuss the history that informs these poems, as well as the role poetry can play in offering testimony and hope in our troubled world.
Spotkanie odbędzie się w piątek, 21 stycznia o godzinie 21.00 polskiego czasu.
Iggy Pop na antenie BBC Radio 6 music puścił premierowo singiel “Uniforms” z płyty B FLAT A.
The Polish Institute Of Arts And Sciences Of America, University of Michigan-Dearborn i Uniwersytet Gdański zapraszają na cykl GDAŃSK ID.