Label: Purge

瞬殺完売作品が2025年2ndエディションとして再登場!!ポルトガルpurge.xxxの素晴らしい審美眼!!1980年にハンガリーにてソングライターとアマチュアミュージシャンのサークルとして結成されたカルトバンドTrabant。共産主義政権の厳しい検閲の最中、中心メンバーが主演した映画のプロモーション用に作られた7インチ音源などを発表、現在も正式なディスコグラフィーは存在せず、百を超える録音がメンバーGabor Lukinによって将来のリリースに向け蓄えられていたという幻のバンド。本作はそのコレクションから、彼らの最も有名で愛されている楽曲を選定し纏めた第一弾LP。公の場で演奏することは殆どなく、またスタジオで作業する事も無い、ひたすらにローテクなDIY環境で曲を書き、それを一つ一つ即座に録音することに専念した幻の記録。ハンガリー語と英語の歌詞、写真を掲載した12ページA4ブックレット付き。









The cult bands' cult band: Trabant were formed in Hungary in 1980. The closest the group ever came to producing a record was in the form of a promotional 7” vinyl for a film in which the core members starred. At the centre of an anti-authoritarian—that is literally outlawed—underground music scene in Hungary, this film soundtrack represented an opportunity to distribute their music without acquiring the recording and distribution license demanded by the censorious Communist regime.

Trabant measured their own success through independence and fun, as a circle of artists recording a significant body of work with rudimentary recording equipment and instruments (much of which was purchased in a toy store), always behind closed doors. The band had an ever-changing line-up formed around co-founders Lukin Gábor, Méhes Marietta and János Vető, and latterly with Mihaly Vig (of Balaton; soundtrack composer for Béla Tarr). Trabant shared some of these recordings through a clandestine cassette tape network, but resisted releasing an album… until now.

This vinyl release represents a collection of music by Trabant, compiling some of their best known and loved songs, newly transferred and gently restored from the original tapes, in a package with extensive photographic documentation of the band by János Vető, and new English translations of the song lyrics by George Szirtes (best known as a translator for his work with László Krasznahorkai).