“ttt” / Gideon Coe, BBC Radio 6 Music
Another part of “ttt” tape premiered by BBC 6.
Another part of “ttt” tape premiered by BBC 6.
The Polish outfit Trupa Trupa fashion their very own Faust Tapes out of an accumulation of sonic explorations, unfinished jams and rehearsal sessions, field recordings and play, off the back of their highly acclaimed (made my choice albums list of 2022) B Flat A album last year.
“So it’s abstract and it’s out there”, says Marc Riley on BBC 6 music. Listen to the Scrap 2 from “ttt” cassette which will be released on 21th of February via Glitterbeat Records.
This special “ttt” cassette will be released Feb 21.
B FLAT A end of the year list made by Zach Schonfeld.
A few years on from their hypnotic ‘Of The Sun’ album, Polish quartet Trupa Trupa has returned with a release as eerily captivating but displaying more propulsive anger.
When you can’t easily identify peers or comparisons with another performer, you know you’re into something interesting.
Here’s the top 25 of ’22 by Stuart Berman from Pitchfork (in alphabetical order).
“Uniforms” single, and BBC session, are on Mark Riley’s “The Best Of The Year” BBC Radio 6 music show.
B FLAT A album is on this great end of the year WXPN summary.
B FLAT A is one of the best album of 2022 according to Greg Kot of Sound Opinions.
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.
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.
Die polnische Band Trupa Trupa kommt auf Deutschland-Tour und verströmt in ihrer Musik eine rastlose Energie, die an das kompromisslose Punk-Ethos von Fugazi erinnert. Ein Gespräch mit dem Sänger Grzegorz Kwiatkowski über seine Gedichte, seine Musik und den Pessimismus in der Welt.
Love from Henry Rollins!
If you’re looking for somebody to adequately explain to you what Trupa Trupa does, I’m not that person. All I can do is try to provide some impressions because I really don’t have anything to compare it with. It’s bits and pieces.
As a kid growing up in a huge extended family of Polish post-World War II ex-pats and their offspring in Chicago and beyond, I didn’t have to travel to Warsaw to get a deep education in the country’s culture and music.
Philosopher-poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s lyrics deal with fundamental questions of fighting evil, in a homeland that has experienced more than its share.
This is pretty neat.
Big news! We are playing BBC Radio 6 Music live session! Tune in and listen to our concert on 11th of April at 7PM UK time on Marc Riley show!