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Gogol Bordello is tagged as: gypsy punk, punk, gypsy, alternative, punk rock

Combining elements of punk, gypsy music, and Brechtian cabaret, Gogol Bordello tells the story of New York’s immigrant diaspora through debauchery, humor, and surreal costumes. Leader and singer Eugene Hütz’s taste in music was spun out of black-market tapes of the The Birthday Party and Einstürzende Neubauten in his native Ukraine.
After being evacuated to Western Ukraine in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster, Hütz 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 Sergei Riabtsev 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 which 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 t...
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Top 10 Gogol Bordello Songs
Start Wearing Purple
Wonderlust King
Not a Crime
Sally
Immigrant Punk
60 Revolutions
My Companjera
Pala Tute
Avenue B
Oh No
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Top 10 Gogol Bordello Albums
Super Taranta!
Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
Trans-Continental Hustle
Voi-la Intruder
Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony
Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike
East Infection
Gypsy Punks
Multi Kontra Culti Vs Irony
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