Even though they may be simply infatuated with the gypsy culture, the fact that they identify with the spirit is already more of an affirmation of a new rebel voice. Hungry March Band is great and Kultur Shock. “There are several others of these bands. “The gypsy punk is our own biographical vision of the music, but its amazing there are so many kids that are coming out of the woodwork and getting with this movement,” says Hutz. Now there’s new DJs as well that have developed this tradition in their own way.” “I’ve been deejaying the party for five years. “That’s where basically the center for the whole gypsy punk scene,” says Hutz of Bulgarian Bar. Stand-out songs on the new album include the humorous “Start Wearing Purple,” an emphatic plea to a woman to lose her charms, wit and beauty, presumably playing on the Russian gypsy adage of ‘if you wear purple you lose your charm,’ “Think locally, Fuck Globally,” with a drum solo played by Hutz on an overturned fire bucket, “Undestructable,” with its hope-hearted rally cry from the masses, “Sally,” the band’s calling card, and “Dogs Were Barking,” with references to the corner of Broadway and Canal streets in New York where Hutz DJs at Bulgarian Bar. That existence included Kiev-born Hutz’s seven-year trek through Eastern Europe refugee camps to escape the Chernobyl meltdown of 1986, an experience that directly impacted the detailed life imagery and music on the new record, which Gogol Bordello delivers in it’s traditional bedlam atmosphere live. We’re not presenting words that have no life experience behind it. We lived in many different parts of the world and we do have the comparative characteristic of all of that and we deliver what we feel. It’s authentic because we present our own vision of global culture. Gypsy music and reggae and punk come from very particular social settings and that is why their sound and their ideological backbone is so strong and in our own way, our music is authentic not because it is so gypsy or so punk or because I’m from Ukraine or anything like that or Oren is from Israel. That’s why it’s so un-effective and generally shallow. The reasons for making music became more hobby-like. “In the West, music became more like a luxury thing. “I’m naturally attracted to these forms of music because of their authenticity,” says Hutz. Experiencing sounds on those terms, Hutz and his collective of Gogol musicians that includes Sergey Rjabtzev (violin, vocals), Oren Kaplan (guitar, vocals), Eliot Ferguson (drums), Yuri Lemeshev (accordion), and Rea Mochiach (bass) continue their crusade to build a bridge between Gypsy music, rock’n’roll and other brands of rebel music from Flamenco to the perestroika punk that blossomed in Eastern Europe during the mid-‘80s. Singer/lyricist visionary Eugene Hutz explains that gypsy’s have a savage way of making music, coming from a culture where song is the only means of survival and that like reggae, it was created by poor people who have nothing but music. And if you find upon listening to the band’s new album, GYPSY PUNKS: Underdog World Strike, (SideOneDummy), you have to forcibly restrain yourself from building a huge fire and leaping over it with a bottle of whatever gypsies drink on a night out, then they’ve succeeded. It means Cultural Revolution is in the air at least that’s what the band hopes its music, inspired by Ukrainian Gypsy culture, will provoke. If a pack of gypsies known as Gogol Bordello pass through your town beware.
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