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Gogol Bordello straddles the continents
Gypsy-punk outfit Gogol Bordello will continue to jump between North America and Europe through the rest of the year.
The group has shows around the eastern US and Canada in the next week and will spend the rest of the month on the European festival circuit. Gogol Bordello will return to North America in late September for a three-week, cross-country jaunt before jetting back across the Pond for a run of shows in November and December. Domestic dates are listed below and those overseas can be found at the band's MySpace page.
The world tour supports Gogol Bordello's latest album, "Super Taranta!," which broke into The Billboard 200 last summer and reached No. 15 on Top Independent Albums chart. The set also came in at No. 14 on Rolling Stone's "Top 50 Albums of 2007" and the tune "Ultimate" made it into the magazine's "100 Best Songs of 2007."
As with all of Gogol Bordello's albums, "Super Taranta!" was cut live in the studio with minimal overdubs.
"The people in the band bounce energy off each other and that's what we capture on the record," Ukrainian-born frontman Eugene Hutz said in a statement.
The multi-cultural, New York City-based band has fashioned a sound that mixes gypsy two-step rhythm with punk, metal, rap, flamenco, reggae, Western twang and host of other influences from across the globe.
Gogol Bordello was brought together by musician/actor Hutz, who escaped the Chernobyl meltdown and endured a seven-year trek through Eastern Europe refugee camps. During that time, he learned about his gypsy culture, which turned out to be his biggest musical influence.
In New York City's melting pot, Hutz found other refugees who share his love of international punk rock, including Russian fiddler Sergey Rjabtzev, Russian accordion player Yuri Lemeshev and Israeli guitarist Oren Kaplan.
