Doing these reviews is, I don’t mind telling you, at times an onerous responsibility, we have on occasions, whether due to time constraints or simply forgetting, lain awake at night worrying about releases we should have been on to or had promised to review, the regret list is overwhelming, we can but try.
Unbelievable, Enfin un mal de tête qui rend heureux. Tropa Tropa n’en fait pas trop, leur troisième album, Headache sort enfin en France. Les voyages forment les jeunes et les moins jeunes.
An 11 pm slot on a Monday night isn’t the most opportune time to be making your U.K. debut. The audience had drifted away about half an hour earlier as the third of three synth-based acts neared the end of his set. Someone said it looked like Trupa Trupa had been landed with ‘the graveyard slot’, but then it all changed. The audience swelled to around a hundred as the four-piece Polish band took to the small, low level stage.
Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records describe themselves as purveyors of ‘secular drones and spiritual pop’. Wild Anima, the opening act at Cafe Oto on the label’s first London showcase, describes herself on SoundCloud as a ‘bird pop’ act, and though her accompanying performer waves feathers around with a New Age mysticism for the last of her three songs, her eerie soundscapes with euro pop melodic sensibilities typify the breadths of the label’s coterie musically.
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Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records night featuring Gdansk avant-rock quartet, Norwegian genre-crossing composer, Toronto post-Techno artist, and Paris-based Greek sound designer producing spiritual pop. London Cafe Oto, 8 August, 8pm, £8—£6.
Trupa Trupa will perform in Wrocław as a part of the European Capital of Culture 2016.
A gig for the 48%ers. Explorative UK cassette label Blue Tapes has collaborated with The Polish Cultural Institute of London for a forthcoming event at Cafe Oto.
Feel less doomed and accept The Quietus invitation to our gig in Café OTO in London.
We’re not into football anyway.
We’re again on Californian KALX Radio station. Thanks!
Un disco all’attivo, Headache, e un riconoscimento già internazionale per i Trupa Trupa, alfieri di un meltin’ pot tra sonorità anglosassoni e anima della perla del Baltico.
Wenn ein Album den Titel „Headache“ trägt, also „Kopfschmerz“, dann muss man sich auf einiges gefasst machen. Die Band Trupa Trupa haben ihr drittes Album einfach so benannt, und vielleicht ist die Auswahl des Titels der Band auch einfach egal, schließlich haben sie ihr Debüt einfach „LP“ getauft, und dem Nachfolger hat das Quartett den Namen „++“ gegeben.
Als der werte Kollege Pascal Weiß im vergangenen Jahr in seiner (Vor-)Auswahl zu irgendeinem Quartalsrückblick den Namen Trupa Trupa in Verbindung mit „Headache“ in seinen Charts erwähnte, wollte ich ob des seltsamen Namens mehr wissen.
Less than two months ago we played a gig at the Polish Radio Gdańsk. Here’s a short footage of the performance. Enjoy!
Headache among the best albums of 2015 by Pascal Weiß from Auftouren.
Trupa Trupa nominated for Splendor Gedanensis Prize.
Trupa Trupa are a four-piece band from Gdansk, who sing throughout in English. Headache – their third album – was recorded in Gdansk in 2014.
Trupa Trupa are Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Tomek Pawluczuk, Wojtek Juchniewicz i Rafał Wojczal. Based in Gdansk, Poland, the band released their second LP „Headache” to much critical acclaim. A truly incredible album that conjures a psychedelic trip of darkness and tension although not without hope. Yoshiwara interviewed Grzegorz Kwiatkowski to shed some light on the darkness…
We’re on the KALX Radio.