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New York, United States (1999 – present)

Combining elements of , music, and Brechtian , 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 them a solid following amongst New York’s downtown hipsters. The band issued a single in 1999 entitled gogol bordello, 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 were not related.
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  • Victoryamba

    А какое удовольствие их живьем слушать!

    1 hour ago
  • urassk

    fuck yeah.. yo fui a verlos al vive .. por mucho uno de los conmsiertos mas chingones a los ke e asistido :D

    3 hours ago
  • brutalkick

    шикарно! <3

    Tuesday afternoon
  • CuddlyToy

    i wish they come to Scotland someday

    Tuesday morning
  • heyrolloverdj

    @flambito I'm not sure that's the reason but Roma people don't like the term gypsies which gogol bordello uses all the time and identify themselves with. I would guess they probably feel like it's cultural appropriation.

    15 days ago
  • mamonavt

    gr8

    15 days ago
  • Analbyanal

    Замечательные!

    last month
  • Jaymz_o_O

    cachaça da cigana!

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Gogol Bordello in Veselovka village (Yantar) on Wed, Aug 1st '12

1 Aug 2012 | from www.gogolbordello.com

Artist: Gogol Bordello Date: Wednesday, August 1st 2012 City: Veselovka village (Yantar) Venue: Kubana Festival Country: Russian Federation Buy tickets Add to Google Calendar | …

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