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"The idea of colliding Romany music with punk may at first seem bizarre, but there's more common ground to be found than one might first suspect, not the least of which involves the rejection of authority and dominant cultural norms. Musically, the Romanies' exuberant celebration of life may appear the antithesis of punk's original nihilism, but both are kindled by a sense of immediacy, a "no future, let's play for today" atmosphere that fires every song. And so Gogol Bordello, while certainly unique, is not as odd as it may seem. The group long ago left the concept of borders, musical or otherwise, behind. The members may have met in New York City, but bar one, all traveled far to get there, arriving from Israel and a variety of Eastern European nations. Singer/lyricist Eugene Hutz brought with him his rich Ukrainian heritage, a gift for storytelling, a twisted sense of humor, and a sharp sense of irony. The bandmembers brought their excellent musicianship, a love of their own cultural sounds, and a magpie's delight in plundering from others. The group's name pays tribute to Ukraine's most feted author, Nikolai Gogol, whose distinctive style and leitmotif provide inspiration for Hutz's lyrics. Skipping stealthily from the real world to the surreal, the pugnacious to the paranoid, the singer spins out his tales of wonder and woe, commonplace occurrences and counterintuitive events. Behind him, the band lets loose with an accompaniment that makes a nonsense of genres, a storming backing awash in melody that pushes toward pop, but cries out to the vast Eurasian steppes. Incredibly anthemic, Multi Kontra Culti will set your head spinning and your body with it, your blood racing to the rhythms, and your spirit soaring with the wildness of the untamed sounds within."
01. When The Trickster Starts A-Poking
02. Occurrence On The Border
03. Haltura
04. Let's Get Radical
05. Smarkatch
06. Future Kings
07. Punk Rock Parranda
08. Through The Roof'n'Underground
09. Baro Foro
10. Hats Off To Kolpakoff
11. Huliganjetta
Ori Kaplan: Saxophone, Vocals
Yuri Lemeshev: Accordion
Victoria Hana: Vocals (Background)
Oren Kaplan: Guitar, Vocals, Engineer
Eugene Hütz: Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals,
Sergey Rjabtzev: Violin, Vocals
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Eugene Hutz picked up a sideline career as a film actor with 2005's Everything Is Illuminated, but anyone worried about that derailing the momentum of his riotously inventive band Gogol Bordello can breathe easy. On Super Taranta!, the NYC-based gypsy-punk crew is as energized as ever, knocking out a rocked-up take on Eastern European and Roma traditional music that sounds a little like The Pogues and Gipsy Kings partying in the back seat of the speeding car from Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. This time around, styles like flamenco and reggae work into the mix. But whatever the sound, everything revolves around charismatically anarchic frontman Hutz, who tosses his Ukrainian-accented lyrics like grenades laden with radical politics and a sly sense of humor: "Have you ever been to American wedding? / Where's the vodka, where's marinated herring?"
01. Ultimate
02. Wonderlust King
03. Zina-Marina
04. Super Theory Of Super Everything
05. Harem In Tuscany (Taranta)
06. Dub the Frequencies Of Love
07. My Strange Uncles From Abroad
08. Tribal Connection
09. Forces Of Victory
10. Alcohol
11. Suddenly...(I Miss Carpaty)
12. Your Country
13. American Wedding
14. Super Taranta!
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Super-Slavs, Gogol Bordello have burst out of the New York underground with their third album and it is a corker. Eugene Hutz is the ringleader of they who have chosen to meld a Russian gypsy folk-punk megamix before your ears. This is beyond fusion; more than just a hybrid.
Los Angeles is the home of rock n roll. New York is the home of indie punks. System of a Down are the natural comparison to Gogol Bordello in the insane world of the perverted folk movements in the way that both make little sense but make so much of everything else, careening across every off-kilter theme one could find.
Hutz snarls and sneers at his microphone, while the backing of an energetically squeezed accordian and a vigorously violated violin sits sumptuously along the tastes of hobo-boho art types in search of the next ‘look’ and punkers looking for something a bit different.
On Gypsy Punks..., the crazy Ukrainian sounds like he’s drunk in charge of a record contract. And I like it.
01.Sally
02.I Would Never Wanna Be Young Again
03.Not a Crime
04.Immigrant Punk
05.60 Revolutions
06.Avenue B
07.Dogs Were Barking
08.Oh No
09.Start Wearing Purple
10.Think Locally f**k Globally
11.Underdog World Strike
12.Illumination
13.Santa Marinella
14.Undestructable
15.Mishto!
Eliot Ferguson - drums, background vocals
Eugene Hutz - vocals, guitar, percussion
Oren Kaplan - guitar, background vocals
Sergey Ryabtzev - violin, background vocals
Yuri Lemeshev - accordion, background vocals
Elizabeth Sun - percussion, background vocals
Pamela Jintana Racine
Rea Mochiach - bass instrument, percussion, programming, electronics
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Part 2.
Gogol Bordello is a multi-ethnic Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of New York City that formed in 1999 and is known for its theatrical stage shows. Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music, as its core members are immigrants from Eastern Europe. The band incorporates minor-key accordion and fiddle (and on some albums, saxophone) mixed with cabaret, punk, and dub as well as multiple languages. Phill Jupitus has described the band as "a bit like The Clash and The Pogues having a fight... in Eastern Europe."
01. Sacred Darling
02. Voi-la intruder
03. Greencard husband
04. Passport
05. Start wearing purple
06. Shy kind of guy
07. Mussolini vs. Stalin
08. Letter to mother
09. God-like
10. Nomadic chronicle
11. Letter to castro (costumes for tonight)
12. Unvisible zedd
13. Sex spider
14. No threat
15. Against the nature
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Part II.
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