Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Let me introduce you to: GOGOL BORDELLO
What is rock & roll anyway? It is an eclectic music thrown in a cosmic blender. Ingredients are Jazz, blues and Country. Now take that combination and put Latin jazz and polka on top of that and you get Gogol Bordello. This band hails from the Lower East Side of New York City. This local gave us the likes of David Peel, and the Fugs. Plus many band started from there, the Ramones for example.
I have been waiting for 10 years for the next new sound. Hip Hop has dried up and has nothing more to say. It’s mostly recycled clichés. What use to be the C.N.N of the ghetto is now the Sci-Fi channel of the hood? Hedonism became a joke like the synthetic romance it spewed with a heavy bass. Macho excess and sexual buffoonery made that genre begging for euthanasia. Maybe we don’t need a mercy killing for it; it’s killing itself, if not, bust a cap in that motha fucka!
For a while, the new was Metal-Rap, ya Know? Stuff like Korn and Rage Against the Machine was popular for a few years now faded back into the oblivion were it came from. This eclectic tried to marry Hip Hop kids and Metal brats together. That marriage ended up in a divorce. Now come Gypsy punk or what I call, “Speed Polka”. This new genre sounds too exotic for your taste; consider what you like, if you like your music loud and fast or rebellious, then Speed Polka might be your thing?
Just like The Dropkick Murphy’s (They mix traditional Irish music with punk) Gogol Bordello is high energy which makes you want to go out in the street a break some shit up. It international music for revolution, the way Bob Marley was. I saw the band on the Henry Rollins show on I.F.C channel. The lead singer looked like a demented Ian Anderson. His name is Eugene Hutz and he has got something to prove. His Slavic roots will be respected or else. He was born in 1972 in the Ukraine, the place that gave us an Anarchist Army, lead by Nestor Makhno. Cool daddy-o cool. When I heard their song, I felt like a Mac truck hit me. It’s that good. On first listen to the band, you eyes will get crossed and your mind will fry and wonder, what the fuck was that? That’s how I felt when I first heard the New York Dolls. The written word can’t describe what they sound like. If you are adventurous, go to the link below.
http://gogolbordello.com/
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