MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long
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Trupa Trupa
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Glitterbeat
★★★★★
THE quartet from Gdansk has received much acclaim for their remarkable innovation and intelligent exploration of rock’s hinterland. TT’s mastery of instruments and groundbreaking arrangements continue to conjure spellbinding scapes.
Their minimalist, acerbic lyrics explore “the wasteland of human nature where hatred and genocide are not just distant reverberations of Central European history but still resonate in contemporary reality,” states guitarist and lead singer Grzegorz Kwiatkowski.
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