Trad.Attack!

Trad.Attack! is an Estonian band which consists of Sandra Vabarna (torupill, vocals), Jalmar Vabarna (guitar, vocals), and Tõnu Tubli (drums, vocals). They sing in Estonian or Estonian dialects.[1]

Trad.Attack!
Trad.Attack!
Background information
OriginEstonia
Years active2013 (2013)–present
LabelsNordic Notes, Made in Baltics, Trad.Attack! Music
Members
  • Sandra Vabarna
  • Jalmar Vabarna
  • Tõnu Tubli
Websitetradattack.ee
Trad.Attack! (Photo: Carolina Tagobert)

History

Before starting the new band project in 2013, all three band members were successful as musicians on their own. The bagpipe player and vocalist Sandra Vabarna (then Sandra Sillamaa) has an academic degree in folk culture/music studies.[1][2] The original idea was to form a group performing Estonian folk music inspired by old traditional folk music and contemporary music.[3] Trad.Attack! sometimes uses samples from archive recordings as the lead vocals and backs them with their own original rock, pop, and electronic instrumentals.[4]

At their first concert, they joked onstage about having a master plan: to be up to perform in every country in the world. Within eight years, Trad.Attack! played in 38 countries. The band played at many showcase-festivals including Tallinn Music Week (Estonia), Folk Alliance (US), V-ROX (Russia), Eurosonic (the Netherlands), Sound of the Xity and Strawberry Festival (China), Minas Musica Mundo (Brazil), WOMEX (Spain), Trans Musicales Festival (France), WOMAD (Chile), Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival (Canada), and the Woodford Folk Festival (Queensland, Australia).

The eleven tracks of their fourth full-length studio album Make Your Move (2020) extend the boundaries of the folk genre with distorted guitars, floor-filling beats and effect pedal manipulated bagpipes.[5] They want to have a stage sound as big as a trio can produce by technical means. Drummer Tõnu Tubli plays also trombone. All songs were tested to work for big festival stage audiences as well as unplugged.[1] They released MYMIATURES - Songs That Never Grew Up in 2020. It features short tracks of songs that already made it to Make Your Move as well as tracks that for now have remained to an idea level.

In 2021 the band released We Miss Playing for You, an album of live recordings. In 2022 Trad.Attack! joined forces with 19 remixers from 8 different countries and released Remixed, an album with the greatest hits from band's discography to which all the remixers added their own touch.

On March 31, 2023 Trad.Attack! released their fifth studio album Bring It On. The album reflects the changes in the band’s members themselves and the world around them. With the new creation, the band set out on an unknown journey to expand their world and search for new sounds. In addition to new instruments, the band members have crossed musical paths with a number of musicians from home and abroad, such as the Georgian vocal choir Iberi, the Canadian folk-pop band The East Pointers, the founder of the band Yemen Blues, Israeli-born musician Ravid Kahalani, the Seto leelo singers and others.

Band members
  • Sandra Vabarna – torupill, vocals
  • Jalmar Vabarna – guitar, vocals
  • Tõnu Tubli – drums, vocals

Discography

Albums

  • AH! (2015)
  • Kullakarva (2017)[6]
  • Make Your Move (2020)[7]
  • MYMIATURES - Songs That Never Grew Up (2020)
  • We Miss Playing for You (2021)
  • Remixed (2022)
  • Bring It On (2023)[8][9]

Extended plays

  • Trad.Attack! (2014)

Recognition

Trad.Attack! is the winner of:

  • Estonian Ethno Music Awards 2023 - Album of The Year[10]
  • Tartu's Cultural Event of The Year 2022: Make Your Moval Final concert at Tartu Song Festival Grounds
  • Estonian pop music award "Golden Album 2021" - Band and Album of the Year
  • Estonian Music Awards 2021 - Song & Ethno/Folk Album of The Year
  • Estonian Foreign Ministry's Culture Prize 2020 for successful concert activities and promotion of Estonian culture abroad
  • Estonian Ethno Music Awards 2020 - Band and Song of the Year
  • Estonian pop music award "Golden Album 2018" – Most Sold Band CD of the Year & Most Sold Vinyl of the Year in Estonia
  • Estonian Music Awards 2018 – Ethno/Folk Album and Band of the Year
  • Estonian Ethno Music Awards 2017 – Album, Band and Song of the Year
  • Estonian Ethno Music Awards 2016 – Best Band
  • Estonian Music Awards 2016,[11] – Best Band, Best Album, Best Ethno/Folk Album
  • Estonian Ethno Music Awards 2015 – Best Band, Best Album and Best Song[12]
  • Estonian Music Awards 2015 – Ethno/Folk album and Music Video of the year[13]
  • Estonian Ethno Music Awards 2014 – Best Band, Best Album, Best Song, Best Newcomer[14]
  • Radio 2 special award

References
  1. Lavigne, Sarah (5 November 2020). "Tradition meets progressive thinking: an interview with Trad.Attack!". folkradio.co.uk. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  2. ""Усадьба Джаз" объявила состав участников" (in Russian). newsmuz.com. 21 May 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  3. Rzhevina, Anna (21 May 2015). "Сандра Силламаа: "Trad.Attack! для нас – это творческая лаборатория, где важен только один критерий – то, что мы делаем, должно нравиться нам"" (in Russian). Apelzin. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  4. Winick, Stephen D. (13 March 2013). "Traditude: Traditional Music With a Twist". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  5. "Review Trad.Attack! "Tehke Ruumi!" (Single/Video, Made in Baltics, 2020)". folkworld.eu. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  6. "Trad.Attack!: Kullakarva Shimmer Gold review – Estonian folk music like you've never heard". The Guardian. 25 May 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  7. "Make Your Move Trad. Attack! / Clockwork (2020) Review by Lee Blackstone". rootsworld.com. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  8. "Westzeit - QUICKSILVER - V.A." www.westzeit.de (in German). Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  9. Moors, Holly (2 April 2023). "Trad.Attack! "Bring It On"". moors magazine (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  10. ERR (7 October 2023). "Galerii: Viljandis jagati 15. korda Etnokulpe". ERR (in Estonian). Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  11. "Jagati kätte Eesti Muusikaauhinnad 2016". Estonian Music Awards. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  12. "Curly Strings makes a clean sweep at Estonian Music Awards (2)". Eesti Rahvusringhääling. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  13. "Eesti Muusikaauhinnad 2015 võitjad on selgunud (2)". Estonian Music Awards. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  14. "Trad.Attack!". Estonian Traditional Music Center. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
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