Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta
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Artist: Gogol BordelloBrand: Side One Dummy Records
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Music Label: Side One Dummy
Soundtracks:
- Ultimate
- Wonderlust King
- Zina-Marina
- Super Theory Of Super Everything
- Harem In Tuscany (Taranta)
- Dub the Frequencies Of Love
- My Strange Uncles From Abroad
- Tribal Connection
- Forces Of Victory
- Alcohol
- Suddenly...(I Miss Carpaty)
- Your Country
- American Wedding
- Super Taranta!
Music reviews of Super Taranta
Music Review: A Supertheory of Supereverything
Rating: 4 Stars
"And those who didn't like The Stooges can go to F#^#ing Hell." So snaps human tornado Eugene Hutz on this kinetically most excellent of albums from Gogol Bordello. That is part of what informs Hutz and his merry band of world music crazies as they take all varieties of international sounds and infuse them with punk energy. His intense vocals turbocharge songs already careening along with a feverish pace unmatched by hardly anyone else currently making music. In much the same fashion where The Pogues took traditional sounds and infused them with electricity, Gogol Bordello invigorates Gypsy sounds (from Hutz's nomadic Ukrainian existence; he is a Chernobyl evacuee) into something new. While I dig new stuff from the likes of the Shins or Arcade Fire, they have no real sense of place, and you sure as hell can't dance to them.
Unlike "Super Taranta!" If you aren't dancing somewhere during the course of this album, something is wrong with your legs. There is such an insistence in this music, be it the growling opening of "Ultimate." ("If we are here not to do what you and I wanna do...why the hell are we even here?") There is no chance of shoe gazing while this is on. The band keeps a sense of humor about the proceedings ("American Wedding") to a smattering of politics ("Your Country"). But this is a band that would rather skip political and head straight for the party. The odd thing about that statement is that having a collective band that is multi-generational, multi-national (Ukrainian, Russian, Israeli and American who came together in NYC) and refuses to fall into any rock and roll cliches is in of itself a pretty political statement. (Especially since Hutz got good notices for his part in "Everything Is Illuminated." He could have easily dumped the fire buckets and his band-mates and started looking for parts.
That just isn't in him, thankfully. He keeps the cyclone of Gogol Bordello churning, burning and shaking up the streets. What else can I say? Along with Against Me!'s "New Wave" and Interpol's "Our Love to Admire," my CD player is getting a heck of a new music workout lately. Want a little something infectious and out of the ordinary? "Super Taranta!" is your ticket to travel the globe courtesy of Eugene Hutz and friends.
Description of Super Taranta
Gogol Bordello has been breaking down musical barriers since 1999 with a supercharged music based on a brutal gypsy two step rhythm that sounds like an Eastern European cousin of ska, augmented by punk, metal, rap, flamenco, roots reggae, Italian spaghetti western twang, dub, and other sounds generated by gypsies and rebels from across the globe. This is intense transglobal rebel rock, not light headed world fusion pop. It's about believing that music and art can transform negative energy to positive and inspire individual intelligence.What Operation Ivy is to the latter-day ska revival, Gogol Bordello is to the increasingly popular revival of Eastern European music. Blending gypsy rhythms with the intensity of alternative-rock, metal (and even rap), the group is justly renown for their charged live performances. The title track is a lovely mix of Balkan strings with pleasant screams from lead singer/ shouter Eugene Hutz. If only more of the songs followed its lead. As a whole, the album sounds like Leftie bumper stickers set to vaguely aggro "gypsy rock." "My Strange Uncles from Abroad" makes its political statement in a personal and affecting manner, but other tunes such as "Forces of Victory" are merely affected. It's hard not to agree with their world view or love for the woozy sounds of Eastern Europe. But on this album, GB make the Dead Kennedys seem subtle. And it would be nice if there were more variety to their sound. Perhaps they should collaborate with Beirut, Muzsikas, or Hawk and a Hacksaw next time? --Mike McGonigal
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