Trepanga

Trepanga

Infobox musical artist
Name = Trepanga



Img_capt = A mock bank-robbery staging by members of Trepanga during a typical intermission of their act
Background = group_or_band
Origin = Moscow, Russia
Instruments = Guitar, Bass-guitar
Genre = Post-punk
Gothic rock
Alternative rock
New Wave
Years_active = 2001–present
Label =
Associated_acts = Grenki
George Triangle
URL = [http://www.trepanga.ru/ Official site]
Current_members = Sergey Yepishev a.k.a. The Lead Singer
Oleg Dolin a.k.a. The Guitarist
Andrey Muravkin a.k.a. The Bassist
Mikhail Yatskov a.k.a. The Drummer
Assya Dolina a.k.a. The Pianist

Trepanga (Russian: Трепанга) is a Russian post-goth band based in Moscow. Known for its usage of texts by Western romantic poets, like Heinrich Heine, Emily Dickinson, Emile Verhaeren or Robert Burns, Trepanga is a regular guest of Nashestvie, the largest Russian open-air rock festival.

The band name means a female trepang, or sea cucumber (adding an inflexional '-a' at the end of a word in Russian makes it feminine). It was chosen because on the day of forming of the band (11th December 2001) a huge drop of trepangs was registered on the Japanese island of Shikoku and, as a word, trepang sounds bouncy and is unfamiliar to most people.

Some of Trepanga's members are more known to the audience as actors in various Moscow theaters.


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