tAngerinecAt

Raw powerful cinematic electronica with punk attitude. Stunning lead hurdy-gurdy with effect pedals, fierce yet tender vocals, personal political lyrics, floaty flutes, massive drone bass and DIY samples seamlessly combine with industrial-rave beats in an utterly captivating show.

Based in London, nomadic duo tAngerinecAt was formed in 2008 in Ukraine as a collaboration between Ukrainian born Eugene Purpurovsky and English born Paul Chilton. At 11 Eugene performed at the town Philharmonic as part of a concert for best young composers of Western Ukraine. When he was 17 he got 4th place in a nationwide competition for spoken word artists of any age at Kiev National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Inspired by their studies, travels and music experiences in remote parts of the Carpathian Mountains, their music has also absorbed different forms of Ukrainian and Soviet counterculture; the classical music skills, composition, directing and stage experience of Eugene since 1990 as a singer, actor, poet and musician as well as influences from EDM, drone, blues, metal, art-rock and more.

Eugene's lyrics are based on personal experience as someone recovering from severe childhood abuse, neglect and poverty, and the associated mental health issues. They also tell a story of resistance against gender, class and ethnic oppression, rape culture and other authoritarian structures. These themes are repeated throughout their album Many Kettles, and also in the form of images and symbols that help you to survive. They have four independently released, successfully selling albums that have had airplay on BBC 2, BBC 3 and BBC 6. The band has toured internationally in Ukraine, UK and Russia from 2010 and since relocating to UK in 2016 have quickly gained momentum, intensively touring with headline shows all over UK.

*Festivals *

Knockengorroch, Willowman, Festival8, Fire In the Mountain, Llangollen Fringe, Tannerfest, Workhouse Party, Pheonix Alternative, Wrexfest, Forever Sun, Radnor Fringe, Cute Owl Festival London/Manchester/Nottingham, New Weird Planet Wonkfest, Blue Lagoon, Krayina Mriy, Trypilske Kolo and many more.

Quotes

"Watch out for: tAngerinecAt... this is some of the most powerful music I have heard in a long time, and holds a message too... difficult to believe there were only two musicians on stage. They manage a real art; creating sound which people enjoy..."* - LOUDER THAN WAR

"I've never seen someone play a hurdy-gurdy so punk..." - overheard at DEVIL’S DYKE NETWORK, Brighton “tAngerinecAt brought not just synth to the table, but a whole range of physical, classical instruments into the mix – most noticeably their use of the hurdy-gurdy, to make their music the deep notes of severe doom and dread that gave it the feeling of a rave in a mausoleum. tAngerinecAt know a lot about their showmanship... This band lived up to everything I’ve heard about them, and I’m excited to foray deeper into their music...”- LEFTLION

"Tangerinecat started with a super-loud electronic bass loop. They did four or five songs, long droning pieces based on loops with flute, hurdy-gurdy and vocals on top. It worked. Eugene is a fantastic singer, a ranter and belter with occasional glassware-shattering screams. As abrasive noise went, I liked them a whole lot..." - ROCKNERD

"Always a pleasure to have these guys back.. if you haven't already seen them, you need to!" - Nicholas Quirk, Entertainment/Venue Manager at Hope and Anchor London, Managing Director at Gestalt Productions, A&R and Showcases manager at X Phonics Music, Former Freelance Journalist at The Skinny Magazine

"Tangerinecat exploded into my world and I'm a happier man for it! Awesome energy and multidisciplinary. Myself and the team at New Art Exchange really appreciated your work..." - Jason Pollitt‎, NEW ART EXCHANGE

"You were absolutely brilliant, so captivating! Comment from one of our volunteers "I couldn't take my eyes off the stage". Thanks so much for coming and sharing your creativity with us..." - LADYFEST MANCHESTER

"Truly stunning performance. I really hope Instigate Arts and Tangerinecat get to work together again soon!" - Anne Louise Kershaw, Co-Director/Owner at Instigate Arts, Former Arts & Music Editor at manchestersfinest.com

"This is the only thing that I want to listen at this moment". - FRESH ON THE NET

"With such disparate influences, it’s rather difficult to pin this down to a particular genre." - FRESH ON THE NET (Fresh Faves), The Von Pip Musical Express

"I’ve been playing it all week and loving it. I was listening to Under the Pavement radio and they interviewed tAngerinecAt, and I was very moved actually. Every so often you hear a piece of music and it just stops you in your tracks, well by all manner with that one, with innovation, and it’s sound, and it’s lyrics, it’s just quite moving." - REBEL ARTS / RADIO, Cambridge

"It just blew everyone away, I was stunned in there and I was like gob smacked cos it was so atmospheric and so meaningful and they were really into it and I look forward to getting them in." - Liz Jenkins, Presenter of The Northern Side, BCB 106.66 fm

Band Members

Eugene Purpurovsky – Vocals, Hurdy-Gurdy with effect pedals

Paul Chilton – Flutes with effect pedals, Laptop, Keyboards

Discography

H.R. V.I.P Kuolema Calm of the Apocalypse Rise of the Underworld Riddles Fainne Gael an Lae

Inspirations

Nirvana, Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and other, mainly unknown, music from all over the world, especially drone, doom-metal, intelligent electronica, edm, trance..; Ukrainian music from the Carpathian region, Ukrainian kobzars songs, Ukrainian music 90 - 80 (Venya D'rkin, Viy, Plach Yeremiyi), Soviet punk and rock (Grazhdanskaya Oborona, Kalinov most, Aquarium, Viktor Tsoi, Zvuki Mu...); Maxim Shalygin, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Nick Cave, Rokia Traoré, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Haldolium, Sergey Kuryokhin...

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