Artist: Gogol Bordello
Genre(s):
Rock
Indie
Ska
Discography:
Super Taranta
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
East Infection
Year: 2005
Tracks: 6
Voi-La Intruder
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Combining elements of punk, gypsy music, and Brecht-ian club, Gogol Bordello tells the account of New York's immigrant diaspora through bacchanalia, humor, and dreamlike costumes. Leader and isaac M. Singer Eugene Hütz's taste in music was spun out of black market tapes of the Birthday Party and Einstürzande Neubauten in his native Ukraine. After beingness evacuated to western Ukraine in 1986 undermentioned the Chernobyl tragedy, Hütz became smitten of the occult, outsider qualities of romany music. Living as a refugee in Poland, Hungary, Austria, and Italy before moving to the United States in 1993, he experient life as an outsider himself. After arriving in New York, he teamed up with guitar player Vlad Solofar and squeezebox player Sasha Kazatchkoff. American Eliot Fergusen added a inviolable rock sound on the drums and the band was too augmented by Sergey Rjabtzev on fiddle, a early theatre theater director from Moscow whose past experience would turn out helpful in the future in crafting Gogol Bordello's freaky stage shows (like one that tells the narrative of super-powered immigrant Ukrainian vampires).
The group's early gigs knotty playing straight itinerant music at Russian weddings, only their music shortly evolved into the hyper-kinetic explosions that earned them a solid following among New York's downtown flower people. The band issued a single in 1999 entitled When the Trickster Comes a-Pokin', quickly followed by their debut uncut, Voi-La Intruder, which was produced by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds drummer Jim Sclavunos. Solofar and Kazatchkoff were replaced by accordionist Yuri Lemeshev, wHO hails from the Russian island of Sakhalin, and 2 Israelis, guitar player Oren Kaplan and saxist Ori Kaplan, wHO despite their similar name calling aren't related. Hütz helped bolster the band's popularity by becoming somewhat of a celebrity in the business district conniption, in part fueled by his Thursday night DJ gigs at Bulgarian club/restaurant/bar Mehanata, where he played Ukrainian, romani, rai, and gypsy dancing music for a herd of artists, models, Ukrainians, Russians, Gypsies, and Bulgarians with tendencies toward extravagant dance and shattering plates.
In the outflow of 2002, Gogol Bordello embarked on a European spell and performed as contribution of the Whitney Biennial, bringing their music to a unhurt new hearing. Voi-La Intruder came taboo around that same time, followed that fall by another record album, Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony. The East Infection EP came taboo in March 2005 before Gogol Bordello made their SideOneDummy debut that August with the aptly coroneted Gypsy Punks. By this percentage point, though the band's throw off no thirster included Ori Kaplan, it did shoot a line bassist Rea Mochiach and dancers/percussionists Pam Racine and Elizabeth Sun. Aside from starring the dance band, Hütz likewise lententide his hand to playacting when he was cast as Alex in 2005's Everything Is Illuminated (based on the critically acclaimed script) later on Gogol Bordello attracted the attention of the film's producer. The band before long got to work on their succeeding album, however, switch to bass player Tommy Gobena and utilizing the talents of producer Victor Van Vugt to help oneself them craft their fourth full-length, the ever-inventive Super Taranta!
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