tAngerinecAt (UK, UA)

Name: tAngerinecAt (UK, UA)
Start: 2026-04-23T20:00:00+02:00
Location: CAFE WOLF

Schedule

Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

CAFE WOLF | Graz, ST

British duo tAngerinecAt graced an array of prestigious festivals, including Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Tallinn Music Week, Menuo Joudaragis, Hradby Samoty, Ex Tenebris Lux, Focus Wales, Equinox, Eden, Willowman, Knockengorroch, among numerous others. In 2024, they embarked on a tour across Germany and Czechia alongside the legendary dark-electro pioneers, Project Pitchfork.
The duo has single-handedly built a worldwide cult following during over a decade of existence, released 6 albums, and toured in 15 countries. In the wake of the global acclaim garnered by their album GLASS, which hit the top of the charts on Bandcamp and was voted one of Louder Than War's top 100 albums of 2022, tAngerinecAt released their new album GRIEF on 9 May 2025.
Originating in Ukraine and residing in North Wales, tAngerinecAt embodies a rich tapestry of musical influences that intertwine West and East. The duo conveys a strong anti-war, anti-fascist, and anti-ecocide message, where the hauntingly intimate allure of dark jazz a cappella coexist with the fierce energy of hammering industrial electronic beats and poignant spoken word. It reflects the profound mastery of Ukrainian-born Zhenia Purpurovsky, a classically trained multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, producer, conductor, and actor, in partnership with the visionary sound designer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Chilton who hails from Britain. With a degree in folkloristics, Purpurovsky adeptly juggles rich cultural symbols, creating a tapestry of meaning.
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New album “GRIEF”
tAngerinecAt channels their profound experiences of war and exile into their work, tackling these subjects through GRIEF in a deeply personal and resonant way.
Purpurovsky, a nonbinary producer and songwriter with a diverse ethnic heritage, conjures a universe of striking and powerful imagery. In this realm, the natural beauty of Wales and its elements serves as both a sanctuary and identity, particularly in the aftermath of extreme poverty, homelessness, disability, severe trauma, isolation, and the challenges faced due to activism, neurodivergence and queerness.
The tone of the album carries the atmosphere of an Eastern Orthodox liturgy, something that is familiar to Purpurovsky from childhood. Being an atheist, does not stop Purpurovsky from honouring these experiences that helped him to survive at the time and reinterpret them in a radical collective ceremony of grief which heals and empowers.
GRIEF conveys a strong anti-war, anti-fascist, and anti-ecocide message, deeply rooted in the personal journey of Purpurovsky. The album emerges as a masterfully crafted concoction of free-spirited, underground resistance brewed in a cauldron of haunting Twin Peaks-esque soundscapes and cathartic revelations, while shifting between languages. Even with its bleak undertones, this work evokes themes of hope, love, unity, and beauty, providing a counterpoint to escapism by embracing reality and navigating through despair to discover pathways to liberation. Grief is love
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Zhenia Purpurovsky (he/him) - composition, production, poetry, vocals, sound design, mixing. Live: vocals, electronic drums, electronics, live looping. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1980, in Ukrainian Jewish family. Based in Wales, UK. British citizen. Nationality: Cosmopolitan.
Paul Chilton (they/them) - sound design, programming, vocals, synths, mixing. Live: electronics, synths, vocals. Born in Cheshire, UK, in 1976. Based in Wales, UK. British citizen. Nationality: Cosmopolitan.
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Foto: James Armandary