Gogol Bordello

Eugene Hutz - singing Sergey Rjabtzev - violin Yuri Lemeshev - accordion Tommy Gobena - bass Eliot Ferguson - drums Oren - guitar Pam Racine - dancer Elizabeth Sun - dancer

Gogol Bordello appeared on earth in 1999, under the leadership of the brilliant Eugene Hutz. The man was born in Ukraine, his life is a novel, so he fled Ukraine in 1986, after the catastrophe of Chernobil, went from camp to refugee camp, crossed Europe on foot, guitar under the elbow, and found himself in New York. He, as Dj, the Bulgarian Bar, makes discover the essentials of non-American ethnic/multicultural music to his listeners, Mano Negra , Sasha Kolpakov , Rootsman , Yuri Yunakov , and generally the music of Balkans and Eastern Europe. Tribute to the author Nikolai Gogol, an ideological inspirator of combo, Gogol Bordello played for a time as Hutz and the Bela Bartok, but no one really knew Belà Bartok in the United States (and in France? Go search on Wiki), they prefer to turn to the Ukrainian author. They play their first concert at Pizdetz on Ridge Street in New York. All members of the group are except an exception (the drummer) of foreign origin. Ukrainian, Russian, Ethiopian, Israeli, Thai-American, Sino-Scottish. Their first two albums are echoes of the sickle ( Voi-la Intruder, 1999) and hammer ( Multi-Kontra vs Irony, September 2002). Then, East Infection, in 2005 helped them leave Rubric Records to sign on SideOneDummy, and release Gypsy Punks/Underdog World Strike the following year. In 2007, they released the album of the consecration, Super Taranta! . These people can do a concert in Europe and the next day, play in the United States, several times a year.