What are we going to do in response?
If youre a musician, one answer is to sing a protest song.
Once you know that, the noise they make takes on a different character.
Trupa Trupa in Chamonix, France in 2018 (from left): Wojtek Juchniewicz, Tomasz Pawluczuk, and Grzegorz KwiatkowskiAdam Furtak*
It starts to sound like a scream against the rising drone of right-wing authoritarian politics around the world.
Its a bit like a band of gravediggers, isnt it?
… And isnt it true that were like these funeral gravediggers?
Commenting on the twilight of the West?
A West where the richest man in the world throwsa little Sieg Heiland gets away with it?
People in Trupa Trupas part of the world know what it looks like when a fascist regime takes power.
In another message, Kwiatkowski sounded a more optimistic note.
What we carry with us, as people from the city of Gdansk, is hope, he wrote.
We know that it can be overcome and not through violence, but through peaceful means.
That same week, the band will arrive in the U.S. for a short club tour.
Find the dates for that tour below.
Trupa Trupa 2025 U.S. Tour Dates
Feb. 19 San Francisco, CA @ KilowattFeb.
21 San Pedro, CA @ The SardineFeb.
22 Los Angeles, CA @ Gold DiggersFeb.
25 Chicago, IL @ Empty BottleFeb.
27 Washington, D.C. @ Quarry HouseFeb.
28 Philadelphia, PA @ Silk CityMarch 1 New York, NY @ Bowery Electric
