Trepanga

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Trepanga
A mock bank-robbery staging by members of Trepanga during a typical intermission of their act
Background information
Origin	Moscow, Russia
Genre(s)	Post-punk Gothic rock Alternative rock New Wave
Years active	2001–present
Associated acts	Grenki George Triangle
Website	Official site
Members
Sergey Yepishev a.k.a. The Lead Singer Oleg Dolin a.k.a. The Guitarist Andrey Muravkin a.k.a. The Bassist Mikhail Yatskov a.k.a. The Drummer Assya Dolina a.k.a. The Pianist

Trepanga (Russian: Трепанга) is a Russian post-goth band based in Moscow. Known for its usage of texts by Western romantic poets, like Heinrich Heine, Emily Dickinson, Emile Verhaeren or Robert Burns, Trepanga is a regular guest of Nashestvie, the largest Russian open-air rock festival.

The band name means a female trepang, or sea cucumber (adding an inflexional '-a' at the end of a word in Russian makes it feminine). It was chosen because on the day of forming of the band (11th December 2001) a huge drop of trepangs was registered on the Japanese island of Shikoku and, as a word, trepang sounds bouncy and is unfamiliar to most people.

Some of Trepanga's members are more known to the audience as actors in various Moscow theaters.