Artist.......: Gogol Bordello
Album........: Live de la Semaine
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: Jan-19-2009
Str.date.....: Jan-00-2009
Quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.gogolbordello.com
track title time
Live de la Semaine
01. StΘphane Saunier - Intro
02. Gogol Bordello - Ultimate
03. Gogol Bordello - Wonderlust king
04. Gogol Bordello - Supertheory of supereverything
05. Gogol Bordello - Tribal connection
06. Gogol Bordello - American wedding
07. Gogol Bordello - Think locally fuck globally
08. StΘphane Saunier - Ending
Runtime 30:47 min
Size 39,4 MB
Release Notes:
Recorded / Performed : January 2009 (France / Canal+)
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 moving to the
United States in 1993, he experienced life as an outsider
himself. After arriving in New York, he teamed up with
guitarist Vlad Solofar and squeezebox player Sasha
Kazatchkoff. American Eliot Fergusen added a strong rock
sound on the drums and the band was also augmented by
Sergey Rjabtzev on fiddle, a former theater director from
Moscow whose past experience would prove helpful in the
future in crafting Gogol Bordello's bizarre stage shows
(like one that tells the story of super-powered immigrant
Ukrainian vampires).
The group's early gigs involved playing straight gypsy
music at Russian weddings, but their music soon evolved
into the hyper-kinetic explosions that earned them a solid
following among New York's downtown hipsters. The band
issued a single in 1999 entitled When the Trickster Comes
a-Pokin', quickly followed by their debut full-length,
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 two Israelis, guitarist
Oren Kaplan and saxophonist Ori Kaplan, who despite their
similar names aren't related. Hⁿtz helped bolster the
band's popularity by becoming somewhat of a celebrity in
the downtown scene, in part fueled by his Thursday night
DJ gigs at Bulgarian club/restaurant/bar Mehanata, where
he played Ukrainian, gypsy, rai, and flamenco music for a
crowd of artists, models, Ukrainians, Russians, Gypsies,
and Bulgarians with tendencies toward exuberant dancing
and smashing plates.
In the spring of 2002, Gogol Bordello embarked on a
European tour and performed as part of the Whitney
Biennial, bringing their music to a whole new audience.
Voi-La Intruder came out around that same time, followed
that fall by another album, Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony.
The East Infection EP came out in March 2005 before Gogol
Bordello made their SideOneDummy debut that August with
the aptly titled Gypsy Punks. By this point, though the
band's cast no longer included Ori Kaplan, it did boast
bassist Rea Mochiach and dancers/percussionists Pam Racine
and Elizabeth Sun. Aside from leading the band, Hⁿtz also
lent his hand to acting when he was cast as Alex in 2005's
Everything Is Illuminated (based on the critically
acclaimed book) after Gogol Bordello attracted the
attention of the film's producer. The band soon got to
work on their next album, however, switching to bass
player Tommy Gobena and utilizing the talents of producer
Victor Van Vugt to help them craft their fourth full-
length, the ever-inventive Super Taranta!