Gogol Bordello
Combining elements of punk, gypsy music, and Brecht-ian cabaret, Gogol Bordello tells the story of New York's immigrant diaspora through debauchery, humor, and surreal costumes. Leader and singer Eugene Hntz's taste in music was spun out of black market tapes of the Birthday Party and Einstnrzande Neubauten in his native Ukraine. After being evacuated to western Ukraine in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster, Hntz became enamored of the mystical, outsider qualities of gypsy music. Living as a refugee in Poland, Hungary, Austria, and Italy before mo...[more]
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VINYL FORMAT. Gogol Bordello has been breaking down musical barriers since 1999 with a supercharged music based on a brutal gypsy two step rhythm that sounds like an Eastern European cousin of ska, augmented by punk, metal, rap, flamenco, roots reggae, Italian spaghetti western twang, dub, and other sounds generated by gypsies and rebels from across the globe. This is intense transglobal rebel rock, not light headed world fusion pop. It's about believing that music and art can transform negative energy to p [ read more ]
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VINYL FORMAT. The Multi Kontra Culti album from New York City gypsy punk favorites Gogol Bordello. The band is inspired by the gypsy sounds of their Eastern European roots, and their music is frenetic, theatrical and rocking.
2xLP $19.99
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