Tropiques

Hypno-jazz, shifting colours, and time allowed to expand. When Goran Kajfeš Tropiques come to Punkt Festival, they invite the audience on a musical journey unlike any other — a concert in which we will hear music mainly from the album Tell Us.

Tropiques work in a semi-improvised form where everything begins with simple building blocks — a bass figure, a melodic cell, a rhythmic fragment — which are repeated, displaced, and re-orchestrated in the moment. The music moves in long, hypnotic arcs, where colours melt into one another and slowly shift towards something new.

This is music that creates states of being. Music that does not hurry, but expands. Music that allows both musicians and audience to sink more deeply into the present.

At its core is an artistic counter-reaction to the pace and fast-food culture of our time — a musical invitation to slow down, listen, and be drawn into a more reflective state. It is music in which the listener can simply be, and become, together with the sounds.

With their albums Enso, Into the Wild, and Tell Us, Tropiques have been praised by critics both in Sweden and internationally. Reviews have pointed to a scene and a society with a growing need for exactly this kind of music: quiet, hypnotic, uncompromising, and deeply rooted in the present.

With Tell Us, they take this further — bigger, bolder, and even more organic.

Performers
Goran Kajfeš — trumpet, synth
Alexander Zethson — piano, synth
Johan Berthling — double bass
Johan Holmegard — drums
Josefin Runsteen — violin
Leo Svensson Sander — cello