{"product_id":"trabant-trabant-1","title":"Trabant – Trabant","description":"\u003cp\u003eLabel: purge.xxx – purrrrrj036\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Repress, Stereo\u003cbr\u003eCountry: Portugal\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 2025\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Rock\u003cbr\u003eStyle: New Wave, Art Rock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst Trabant!!!!!  More soon.  Limited copies.  (Mint \/ New)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe cult band’s 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lightweightBreak\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTRABANT 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"package_description_0\" class=\"peekaboo-text\"\u003epurchased in a toy store), always behind closed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"package_description_0\" class=\"peekaboo-text\"\u003e doors. The band had an ever-changing line-up formed around co-founders GÁBOR LUKIN, MARIETTA MÉHES, and JÁNOS VETÖ, and latterly with MIHÁLY VÍG (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lightweightBreak\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis vinyl release represents the first 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 VETÖ, and new English translations of the song lyrics by GEORGE SZIRTES (best known as a translator for his work with LÁSZLÓ KRASZNAHORKAI).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA1 Gesztenyefák (Wild Chestnut Trees)\u003cbr\u003eA2 Mindig Mindent (Always Everything)\u003cbr\u003eA3 Itt Van, Pedig (He's Here, But)\u003cbr\u003eA4 Balettcipőben (In Ballet Shoes)\u003cbr\u003eA5 Ragaszthatatlan Szív (Irreparable Heart)\u003cbr\u003eA6 Kígyó (Snake)\u003cbr\u003eB1 Balettcipőben [Végezene] (In Ballet Shoes [Final Credits])\u003cbr\u003eB2 Pirosbetűs Napok (Red-Letter Days)\u003cbr\u003eB3 Kész Az Egész (It's All Over)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"385\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JOdDJjx8Lqo\" title=\"Trabant\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe width=\"385\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w6oFbLHvQAw\" title=\"trabant - balettcipôben (In Ballet Shoes)\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"All Night Flight Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58040855724414,"sku":"purrrrrj036","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/7755\/6791\/files\/IMG_6959_7bfeb828-d38d-43c4-b87c-5a6a2ab6369f.jpg?v=1786796120","url":"https:\/\/allnightflightrecords.com\/products\/trabant-trabant-1","provider":"All Night Flight Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}