TRUPA TRUPA RELEASE NEW VIDEO FROM ACCLAIMED B FLAT A ALBUM OUT NOW; WATCH US TOUR KICKS OFF TOMORROW; BUY TICKETS HERE |
"The first album was great, but this one, I just think, is even better." - Henry Rollins, KCRW “The Polish band’s latest shows that they don’t make protest music so much as process music, indulging the ugliest aspects of post-punk and post-hardcore as a means to protect what’s good and beautiful in this world”. - PITCHFORK “the album’s baseline sound calls back to the Cold War era, the bridge between that old uncomfortable history and now.” - STEREOGUM “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.”- THE QUIETUS "A clarion call for humanism in a hateful world. [...] Dark, impressive stuff. Trupa Trupa come bearing a message that resonates. Naive? Maybe so. But that’s what they always say about dreamers." - ROLLING STONE
“their steadfast commitment to setting their own course and remaining firmly out of step with any other scenes or genres makes them a vital band all around the world, especially as its so rare to find a record of this calibre that isn’t easily compared to another.” - UNDER THE RADAR |
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Photo Credit: Rafal Wojczal |
Polish quartet Trupa Trupa kicks off their first US tour since 2019 tomorrow, and today they’ve released a video from their acclaimed sixth album B FLAT A. Directed by San Francisco filmmaker Keesan Nam the video is a wondrously shot story about loss. Grzegorz Kwiatkowski of the band notes: "Someone lost someone. But why? And who is really lost? I don't know if you can find out about it from this clip. But this is part of the puzzle called B FLAT A, where we have question marks, ambiguities, sadness and absurdity." The band kicks off their North American tour tomorrow night at PhilaMOCA in Philadelphia. The next night they play Mercury Lounge in New York City, followed by D.C., Detroit, and more (full dates below). The tour is co-organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of The Republic of Poland. Presented in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York, and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington D.C. With B FLAT A Trupa Trupa looks to confront evil; exploring, in singer Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s words, “the wasteland of human nature where hatred and genocide are not just distant reverberations of Central European history but still resonates in contemporary reality.” Musically, B FLAT A is where the provincial math rock, woozy psychedelia and heavy folk elements of the band finally coalesce in that most unfashionable of things, a sound that can fill a stadium. The band has always been able to shake the roots of any mountain in terms of making noise but their new record showcases a new, outward-looking sensibility. Created when the band had a US tour canceled due to COVID-19, the group was creating with what Trupa Trupa vocalist Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, describes as a “visible paranoia”. He went on to add, “COVID affected us. So our dark stuff was in my opinion even darker because of this super strange, frightening atmosphere all around us and inside us." The innovative and explorative experience of B FLAT A, is a product of the bands innate ability to document their ever-shifting perspective and circumstances. With off-kilter melodies, dense instrumentation, and haunting, barbed lyrical explorations, Trupa Trupa has managed to acutely reflect times that are often impossible to describe, resulting in some of the most compelling work to date. |
TRUPA TRUPA TOUR DATES 04.28 - Philadelphia, PA - PhilaMOCA 04.29 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge 04.30 - Washington DC - DC9 05.03 - Tue Detroit, MI - Third Man 05.04 - Chicago, IL - Schubas 05.05 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry 05.07 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir 05.08 - Seattle, WA - Barboza 05.11 - San Franciso, CA - Cafe du Nord 05.12 - Los Angeles, CA - Moroccan Lounge |
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