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by Rania Haditirto
Explosive is the word that comes to But that’s not their thing. Yes, gypsy and
mind when one hears the music of punk are not your typical bedfellows,
Gogol Bordello. Even the ballads have yet in a way, they are naturals. Both
the kind of energy that stirs the body are grass roots movements, both born
to move with the emotions awakened. of simmering pots of different kinds.
Even in just listening, one is whirled into Is there a bit of gypsy in punk maybe,
the feeling of a wild gypsy dance party, or a bit of punk in gypsy? You’ve got
twirling through tempestuous paths of to wonder about that one. It seems
sorrow and joy, one after another. Even somehow plausible.
if you have a different chain of thoughts When front man Eugene Hutz,
entirely, it’s likely that the pulse and lilt was asked by NPR to elaborate on the
will stir you up and bring a more sway in definition of gypsy punk, he said “It is
your sashay! what it is”.
The music itself is hard to describe. And just what is it that Gogol
Definitions can be, such sticky things Bordello is? It is a band of several
and at other times clues. The band singers, a guitarist, violinist, accordion
calls its sound “gypsy punk”, evoking player, drummer and group of dancer/
visions of punked out gypsy dancers percussionists. Musical influences
spinning and slamming into each other, range from Roma gypsy music to Ska,
while mean maracas click in anarchistic punk, reggae and others. It can be quite
dissonance amidst broken violin strings. a rollercoaster ride.
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