trauma helicopter

A bare drum kit in the spirit of Joy Division, no bass guitar like the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Trauma helicopter counts down and plays the sweat on the walls of your garage with a few chords. Simply being happy, René Froger calls it. And yet the second album ready as we'll ever be immediately shows a richer and more melodious sound. With the same liberating limited means, power pop and jangly indie influences are admitted to the rock 'n' roll idiom.

Singer Mark Lada: “I like to see Traumahelikopter in a tradition of guitar bands, where a bunch of like-minded friends make the music they want to make together. We don’t necessarily have to reinvent the wheel, but we do try to do something new and unique with the influences we have. And those are so much broader than just punk or garage rock. As long as there’s a certain kind of honesty in it.”

During the self-organized Zadelpijn party at Noorderslag and also at Burgermania - the party during the South By Southwest festival in Austin - this turns out to be a golden move. From now on, the music is not only released by Excelsior, but also by the American Burger Records. Where a system ceiling still has to be demolished, a trauma helicopter comes.