tAngerinecAt is the project of Zhenia Purpurovsky — Welsh-Ukrainian producer, composer, classically trained multi-instrumentalist, poet and sound artist with 35 years of musical practice — and Welsh sound artist Paul Chilton. Their music is a ritual that sneaks up on you: visceral, unclassifiable, evoking the apocalyptic gravitas of Philip Glass, Jocelyn Pook and Ryuichi Sakamoto, the emotional depth of Bachar Mar-Khalifé and Maxim Shalygin, the cinematic intensity of Son Lux, and hammering industrial electronic beats of Gesaffelstein intensity — shot through with the cross-cultural tension of deep Ukrainian and Soviet musical heritage. Music of freedom and empowerment that rose from the bare realities of life.

Purpurovsky's lyrics are forged in the fire of their own life — born in Soviet Ukraine, shaped by extremes no manifesto could contain, now Welsh. Not confession. Ceremony. Not escapism. Liberation.

Seven albums. Touring across the UK and Europe. Wave-Gotik-Treffen. A free, independent project with a worldwide following earned track by track, on their own terms. Their latest album GRIEF, recorded in Eryri and released on their own imprint Annwn Records, conjures Welsh mythological figures as guides through collective grief and transformation — a fierce anti-war, anti-fascist statement. BBC Wales calls it "chilling and unsettlingly beautiful." Louder Than War calls it "the triumph of art and the human spirit."

Music that doesn't decorate. It transforms.