Gogol Bordello
- HOMETOWN:
- NEW YORK, New YORK
- MYSPACE:
- myspace.com/gogolbordello
- WEB SITE:
- gogolbordello.com
HüTZNOMOVETZ - INTRO WORD - There are many of us for whom music is an irreplaceable part of life We rely on it to take us out of sadness, pressures of poverty, youth, age, etc Mixed with alcohol it seems to be a remedy for just about anything Be it a rapid fire of notes exploding in catharsis all over the major key or an obsessive marathon of soul-searching sounds crawling around minor it all appears somehow more solid and present in our lives than materials something we can always address and hold on too At its best music connects us to a feeling as large as the whole goddamn universe itself... Of course, sometimes when sober, we can say, Well, after all, its just music Yet everywhere youll go, in every culture, youll see its major royal presence Some say with a straight up claim that music is the essence of life (for example: Wlodzimier Staniewski with his theatre group Gardzienice(Musicality of Earth, or seePraktyki teatralne Wl. Staniewski Test, Lublin, 97, Poland)) I join in with them Others see it more as an inhancing luxurious amusement-like activity. Sure, Im down with that too, but one way or another, both positions advocate its primal positive powers Often you will hear people talking about a concert theyve experienced for years! Why? In Gypsy mythology they say it is memorable because the devil visited that room, others say the other guy was there But one way or another they all link it to supernatural Considering its power, it is not impossible to think of music making as a sacred art discipline and, for example, in anthropological tribal studies the medicine man functions are not really differentiated from musicians But lets not get too anthropological on your ass These are just elementary streamline reminders of musics rocking good and what it could do. But instead, saturated with garbage, airways discredit this art and separate people from the power and meaning of music Rivers of meaningless puke are poured into ours ears on daily basis and many forgot to even think about music as of a major source of energy, joy and inspiration and fucking heat too!..
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Austin City Limits Music Festival
Fri. 09/26 | 11:00AM - Sun. 09/28 @ Zilker Park (South of the river)
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Lollapalooza 2008 w/ Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, and more
Fri. 08/01 | 8:30PM - Sun. 08/03 @ Grant Park
www.lollapalooza.com
Gogol Bordello w/Dub Trio
Mon. 10/22 | 10:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
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Gogol Bordello made its name with spastic live shows led by frontman Eugene Hutz—who took a star-turn as an actor in 2005’s Everything Is Illuminated —and a lineup fleshed out with violin, accordion, guitar, saxophone, drums, and writhing dancers. The self-described gypsy-punk cabaret sound is wild and chaotic, like an Eastern European take on The Pogues or Tom Waits. It works well on albums such as this year’s Super Taranta!, but it takes on a whole other dimension of dementia live. Opening: Dub Trio, DJ Dubta.