Trad.Attack!

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.{{Cite web |last=Lavigne |first=Sarah |date=5 November 2020 |title=Tradition meets progressive thinking: an interview with Trad.Attack! |url=https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2020/11/interview-with-trad-attack/ |access-date=11 November 2020 |website=folkradio.co.uk}}{{Cite web |date=21 May 2015 |title="Усадьба Джаз" объявила состав участников |url=http://newsmuz.com/news/2015/usadba-dzhaz-obyavila-sostav-uchastnikov-34225 |publisher=newsmuz.com |language=Russian |accessdate=7 June 2015}} The original idea was to form a group performing Estonian folk music inspired by old traditional folk music and contemporary music.{{Cite web |last=Rzhevina |first=Anna |date=21 May 2015 |title=Сандра Силламаа: "Trad.Attack! для нас – это творческая лаборатория, где важен только один критерий – то, что мы делаем, должно нравиться нам" |url=http://www.apelzin.ru/special/sandra-sillamaa-interview.html |publisher=Apelzin |language=Russian |accessdate=7 June 2015}} Trad.Attack! sometimes uses samples from archive recordings as the lead vocals and backs them with their own original rock, pop, and electronic instrumentals.{{Cite news |last=Winick |first=Stephen D. |date=13 March 2013 |title=Traditude: Traditional Music With a Twist |work=The Huffington Post |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-d-winick/traditude-traditional-music-with-a-twist_b_6861514.html |accessdate=7 June 2015}}

At their first concert, they joked onstage about having a master plan: to be up to perform in every country in the world.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}} Within eight years, Trad.Attack! played in 39 countries.{{Cite web |date=2024-04-06 |title=Trad.Attack!: «Miks me teeme bändi? Selleks, et valgustajad saaksid tööd!» |url=https://sakala.postimees.ee/7994608/trad-attack-miks-me-teeme-bandi-selleks-et-valgustajad-saaksid-tood |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=Sakala |language=et}} 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).{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}

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.{{Cite web |title=Review Trad.Attack! "Tehke Ruumi!" (Single/Video, Made in Baltics, 2020) |url=http://www.folkworld.eu/71/e/cds9.html#trat |access-date=11 November 2020 |website=folkworld.eu}} 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. 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.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

In 2021 the band released We Miss Playing for You, an album of live recordings.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}} In 2022 Trad.Attack! collaborated with 19 remixers and released Remixed, an album with remixes from the band's discography.

On March 31, 2023 Trad.Attack! released their fifth studio album Bring It On. The album was nominated for Ethno/Folk Album of The Year at the Estonian Music Awards 2024. "Bring It On" won Album of The Year award at the Estonian pop music awards "Kuldne Plaat 2024".

• Sandra Sillamaa – bagpipe, vocals
• Jalmar Vabarna – guitar, vocals
• Tõnu Tubli – drums, vocals

Albums

• AH! (2015)
• Kullakarva (2017){{Cite web |date=25 May 2017 |title=Trad.Attack!: Kullakarva Shimmer Gold review – Estonian folk music like you've never heard |url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/25/trad-attack-kullakarva-shimmer-gold-review-estonian-folk-music |access-date=5 September 2021 |website=The Guardian}}
• Make Your Move (2020){{Cite web |title=Make Your Move Trad. Attack! / Clockwork (2020) Review by Lee Blackstone |url=http://www.rootsworld.com/reviews/tradattack-20.shtml |access-date=11 November 2020 |website=rootsworld.com}}
• MYMIATURES - Songs That Never Grew Up (2020)
• We Miss Playing for You (2021)
• Remixed (2022)
• Bring It On (2023){{Cite web |title=Westzeit - QUICKSILVER - V.A. |url=https://www.westzeit.de/rezensionen/?id=23417 |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=www.westzeit.de |language=de}}{{Cite web |last=Moors |first=Holly |date=2023-04-02 |title=Trad.Attack! "Bring It On" |url=https://www.moorsmagazine.com/muziek/folk/trad-attack-bring-it-on/ |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=moors magazine |language=nl}}

Extended plays

• Trad.Attack! (2014)

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Trad.Attack! is the winner of:

• Estonian pop music award "Golden Album 2024" - Band and Album of the Year
• Estonian Ethno Music Awards 2023 - Album of The Year{{Cite web |last=ERR |date=2023-10-07 |title=Galerii: Viljandis jagati 15. korda Etnokulpe |url=https://kultuur.err.ee/1609125272/galerii-viljandis-jagati-15-korda-etnokulpe |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=ERR |language=et}}
• 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,{{Cite web |title=Jagati kätte Eesti Muusikaauhinnad 2016 |url=http://www.muusikaauhinnad.eu/jagati-katte-eesti-muusikaauhinnad-2016/ |publisher=Estonian Music Awards |accessdate=29 January 2016}} – Best Band, Best Album, Best Ethno/Folk Album
• Estonian Ethno Music Awards 2015 – Best Band, Best Album and Best Song{{Cite web |date=16 January 2015 |title=Curly Strings makes a clean sweep at Estonian Music Awards (2) |url=http://news.err.ee/v/Culture/e070f6ad-adf6-44e0-9e54-218c98c6293a |publisher=Eesti Rahvusringhääling |accessdate=7 June 2015}}
• Estonian Music Awards 2015 – Ethno/Folk album and Music Video of the year{{Cite web |date=15 January 2015 |title=Eesti Muusikaauhinnad 2015 võitjad on selgunud (2) |url=http://www.muusikaauhinnad.eu/jagati-katte-eesti-muusikaauhinnad-2015/ |publisher=Estonian Music Awards |accessdate=15 January 2015}}
• Estonian Ethno Music Awards 2014 – Best Band, Best Album, Best Song, Best Newcomer{{Cite web |title=Trad.Attack! |url=http://www.folk.ee/en/estonian-artists/trad-attack |publisher=Estonian Traditional Music Center |accessdate=7 June 2015}}
• Radio 2{{which|date=January 2020}} special award

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