GOGOL BORDELLO @ VOGUE THEATER took place on Friday, October 09, 2009 8:00 PM - 2:00 AM
at Vogue Theater
in VANCOUVER BC. More details on the event are below.
Gogol Bordello chose producer Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, PJ Harvey) to help them bring their extreme vision to vibrant life. ?Victor has been a fan since the beginning of the band and we often spoke about making an album together. He?s not afraid to experiment in any way; he?ll go wherever we?re willing to go. If we say: ?This track is gypsy speed metal dub,? he says: ?OK let?s do it.? No hesitation.?
Van Vugt?s fearlessness was a perfect compliment to Gogol?s wide open approach. His analogue studio in New York is defiantly old school. He doesn?t use Apple's Protools to add the magic when it isn?t there. With his help, the band made a record that sounds like Gogol Bordello backed by artists Manu Chao and System of a Down.
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. ?Reggae and gypsy music were created by poor people with nothing to loose,? Hutz explains. ?They had to find a new way to look at the world, so the theme of SUPER TARANTA! is New Rebel Intelligence - NRI ? a concept born in the band. Looking at string theory, creationism, globalization, political cataclysms and the general chaos facing us makes you realize you have to find some way to survive.?
Gogol Bordello?s philosophy is simple and pragmatic. Music makes it possible to make the contradictions of life sound harmonious, at least for the duration of a song. Their trans-global rebel rock is based on the belief that music and art can transform negative energy to positive and inspire individual action.
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