Polish duo Tansgalactica release new single "The Great Escape I: Death"

If you believe music feeds the soul, then you’re in for a treat! The music of Polish musical duo Tansgalactica, inspired by the words and theories of psychologist, linguist and prominent science figure, Steven Pinker, is designed to make you think. Tomasz Bieroń, with his son, Filip, writes the ideas that have struck a chord with him into songs set to the Hard/Progressive Rock sounds he loves himself. Tansgalactica’s first album, “Better Angels”, was originally released in 2023.

Tansgalactica has a unique sound. Only two pieces are accompanied by drums or percussions, as Tomasz believed that this way he would manage to fit more harmonic and tonal effects at the expense of rhythm. As with all their music, and indeed, their very origin, the songs on the album are thoughtful and passionate in the ideas they attempt to convey.

Tansgalactica often describe their music as “meditative” and “persuasive”, and the arrangements and inspirations complement the thoughts behind the songs they accompany rather distinctively. Father-son duo Tomasz and Filip Bieroń write ambitiously progressive music with classical inspirations, set to lyrics that promote the world-saving vision of the world presented by the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. Tomasz discovered the writings of Pinker in his work as a translator. He has translated the works of many famous writers to Polish, including those of Emily Brontë, Virginia Woolf, Paul Bowles, Francis Fukuyama, Saul Bellow, Umberto Eco, Arundhati Roy and others.

In 2022, inspired by his then 21-year-old son, Tomasz decided to write music. Steven Pinker’s, Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now and the vision of the world contained in them made such a huge impression on Tomasz that he decided to promote it in his musical work, with Professor Pinker’s permission. They are now rereleasing their music with new vocals by the Chilean musician Lukky Sparxx.