Interview for No-Wave
Trupa Trupa produce mysterious, multi-faceted music that’s open to interpretation. But it’s also direct and passionate. It’s no surprise that band member and poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is the same.
Trupa Trupa produce mysterious, multi-faceted music that’s open to interpretation. But it’s also direct and passionate. It’s no surprise that band member and poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is the same.
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski of Trupa Trupa made a startling discovery in 2015. In a pine forest, nuzzled next to the former Stutthof concentration camp in Poland, was a cache of buried shoes.
Antisemitism, fascism, retrogressivity are again most relevant today. Before the release of their new album »Of the Sun« by Trupa Trupa and the attached tour with stop in the US, here an interview with singer and poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski about Poland, the Shoah, and art in general.
It’s not often a band comes along and grabs you so completely you anticipate each release with relish. Having stumbled on Gdansk based Trupa Trupa at Sharpe Festival last month they have properly sited themselves right under my skin. Their combination of far-out psyche/post-punk/avant-garde has got me in its grip and it won’t let go. They have been blazing a trail worldwide with deals in the US (Lovitt), Europe (Glitterbeat), Poland (Antena Krzyku) and Japan (Moorworks).
Anti-fascist psych rockers from Poland Trupa Trupa have released a video for a song pointing the finger at those whitewashing history. Holocaust denial is perhaps one of the big themes here and the music is very powerful. One of the best bands around at the moment, don’t sleep on these.
Director: Nick Larson, post-processing: Aleksander Makowski.
Oh my good God, I have seen the light! How have Trupa Trupa evaded me for so long? They played here last year becoming a bit of a LTW favourite when John covered them.
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is lead singer with Polish post-punk band Trupa Trupa, an outfit I saw for the first time in Bratislava last week. Yesterday, his documentary on ‘The Invisible Shoes of Stutthof Concentration Camp’ was broadcast on radio CBC. Trupa Trupa sits squarely in the dark poetic visions of Joy Division and Ist Ist – if you haven’t heard them then check them out on Spotify and Youtube. Their performance at Sharpe Festival last week was a true highlight.
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Many artists come from abroad to take advantage of the unique opportunity SXSW offers, including Polish psychedelic rock group, Trupa Trupa. Trupa Trupa attempts to combine many disparate musical styles and genres, based on each members’ preference and style. The group’s lead vocalist, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, claims that this blending of styles is part of what makes the band unique.
During these last four days we played two gigs which found their way to Rolling Stone, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Sound Opinions, Gigwise and Tucson Weekly best acts list of this years edition!
Our debut interview in The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music.
David Frickie of Rolling Stone sees TT as one of the best acts at this year’s Iceland Airwaves Festival!
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Listen to the Iceland Airwaves mixtape that we’ve made for Under the Radar magazine!
Gig alert! We play at Iceland Airwaves Music Festival!
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Once upon a time in Paris. Interview for Persona magazine.
Label alert! “Jolly New Songs” released in Japan by MOORWORKS (Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and more!). We celebrate the release with the new Jolly video. Watch “None of Us”.
We talked to the Full Moon Magazine. Check out the latest issue.