GOGOL BORDELLO new album SOLIDARITINE + Announcing Fall 2022 Tour!

Announces The Fiery SOLIDARITINE Produced by Walter Schreifels Out September 16, 2022 on Casa Gogol/Cooking Vinyl Pre-order HERE Announcing Fall 2022 Tour! Tickets on sale Friday, July 22nd at 10:00am Local Time

Gogol Bordello Photo credit: Sanjay Suchak

JULY 19, 2022 (New York, NY) -- “This is music of survival and perseverance. That’s always been our main driving force,” declares GOGOL BORDELLO frontman Eugene Hutz about their new album SOLIDARITINE (release date: September 16, 2022 via Casa Gogol/Cooking Vinyl).  “We just want to give the world a timeless album with messages of human potential and power.”  Their eighth full-length album is inspired by survival in the face of adversity – a theme that can be applied to the pandemic just as much as it can be applied to the war going on in his native Ukraine. “Our music was always about perseverance,” exclaims Eugene. “Rock ‘n’ roll comes out of a real place. Take a group of people who have endured immigrant traumas and dislocation. They create music, get successful together, become more baroque and experimental, and experience some years of relative calm. All of a sudden, humankind encounters these problems like the pandemic and the war. This is when rock ‘n’ roll is the most necessary and where we perform the best.” The seven piece of mixed heritage from locations such as Ukraine, Ecuador, and Russia have consistently riled up audiences with an inimitable patchwork of punk, gypsy, dub, folk, Latin swing, and Eastern European magic. With the more hardcore leanings of SOLIDARITINE, the sense of urgency and a fresh bolt of energy returns the band to their incendiary beginnings while keeping their agit prop leanings front and center.  Tapping New York underground icon Walter Schreifels (Gorilla Biscuits, Rival Schools, Quicksand) for the producer seat, Gogol dove deep into the studio and emerged with a album rife with the insurgent sound of survival.  “The album is really about uniting the people of goodwill,” he reveals. “Releasing any kind of art that doesn’t address the situation in Ukraine right now would be pretty despicable.”

Gogol Bordello "Focus Coin" Link/Embed: https://youtu.be/Tw1PojaNFTo

Dusting off a handful of the punkier tracks that were originally recorded for their last album Seekers & Finders, Eugene and crew recorded 13 tracks of unbridled energy. The opening track “Shot of Solidaritine” kicks off acoustically before launching into a raucous sprint at a breakneck pace. Gogol takes the post-hardcore classic “Blueprint” by Fugazi and injects their trademark Eastern European stomp. H.R. of Bad Brains guested on “The Era of the End of Eras,” blessing the track with a cameo punctuated by a key moment from the Bad Brains anthem “Sailin’ On.” He smiles, “Walter and I were in tears when H.R. sent it in.”  Their new single "Focus Coin" embraces the punk spirit that fueled Eugene's creativity streak throughout SOLIDARITINE which Eugene explains, "The quality of your ability to focus defines everything in your life and that’s exactly what the first single, 'Focus Coin' is about. Your focus is the hardest currency there is." “Forces of Victory” which features award-winning Ukrainian poet and novelist Serhiy Zhadan and electrofolk band Kazka, explodes with dizzying acoustic guitars and violin, charging forward at lightspeed before crashing into an uplifting verse kickstarted by fits of electric guitar. “It’s a very extreme hardcore number, but here’s the mystical part of it,” he observes. “It originally appeared on Super Taranta! [Gogol Bordello’s classic 4th studio album] When we recorded the first version of it, a lot of things were unintentionally empty. Entire chunks of the song are instrumental. This year, the words came to me in like five seconds for those parts, and they were distinctly about dignity, integrity, and resilience. The righteous cause of Ukraine is undeniable.”

Gogol Bordello "Forces of Victory" Link/Embed: https://youtu.be/DkVuw9A126w

Formed in 1999, Gogol Bordello took their style of Eastern European-influenced gypsy punk and doused it deep into the underground rock of New York City. Imminently beginning a U.S. tour (tour dates below), Gogol Bordello have been praised for their recorded material but especially heaped with accolades about their live shows. Wall Street Journal raved about the band's live performance saying, "Gogol Bordello mashed punk energy with Eastern European modes for a set that received the wildest reception of any show I saw," while Los Angeles Times said, "Gogol Bordello celebrates sensuality in both words and raucous, joyful internationalist dance rock." Pitchfork proclaimed, “Eugene Hutz and his acoustic guitar slapping (think Les Claypool’s hands, but on a six-string) and waving arms summoned the crowd which quadrupled in size by the set’s fourth song. Festival goers were literally running toward the stage” while Consequence hailed “the ever-evolving collective has defied the boundaries of continents and genres in their quest for spiritual illumination through gypsy punk." “I started playing punk rock as a kid. So, I was going back to it,” Eugene adds about the overall explosiveness of the new album.  “I realized music was a really great way to levitate above all of these trials of life.”

SOLIDARITINE album art (hi-res) TRACK LISTING   1.  Shot of Solidaritine 2.  Focus Coin 3.  Blueprint 4.  The Era of the End of Eras (feat. HR) 5.  I’m Coming Out 6.  Knack For Life 7.  The Great Hunt of Idiot Savant 8.  Take Only What You Can Carry (feat. KAZKA) 9.  My Imaginary Son 10.  Forces of Victory (feat. Serhiy Zhadan and KAZKA) 11.  Fire On Ice Floe 12.  Gut Guidance 13.  Huckleberry Generation

Gogol Bordello will be hitting the road in support of SOLIDARITINE this Fall in North America with the tour kicking off at Pittsburgh's Mr. Smalls Theatre on October 20th and heading West to Seattle's Neptune Theatre on Nov. 14th.  Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, July 22nd with presales beginning Wednesday, July 20th (artist presale) and Thursday, July 21st (local presale) at 10:00am Local Time.

TOUR DATES Artist Presale Ticket link: https://gogolbordello.shop.ticketstoday.com/calendar.aspx   Date Venue City, State Oct 20 Mr Smalls Theatre Pittsburgh, PA Oct 21 KEMBA Live! Indoor Pavilion Columbus, OH Oct 22 Bogart's Cincinnati, OH Oct 23 Genesee Theatre Waukegan, IL Oct 25 JJ's Live Fayetteville, AR Oct 26 Cain's Ballroom Tulsa, OK Oct 28 Granada Theater Dallas, TX Oct 29 The Aztec Theatre San Antonio, TX Oct 31 El Rey Theatre Albuquerque, NM Nov 1 Marquee Theatre Tempe, AZ Nov 3 The Observatory Santa Ana, CA Nov 4 The Observatory North Park San Diego, CA Nov 5 Majestic Ventura Theater Ventura, CA Nov 7 Belasco Theater Los Angeles, CA Nov 9 Fremont Theater San Luis Obispo, CA Nov 10 The Warfield San Francisco, CA Nov 12 Revolution Hall Portland, OR Nov 13 The Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, BC Nov 14 Neptune Theatre Seattle, WA

Gogol Bordello is Eugene Hutz (vocals, guitar, percussion), Sergey Ryabtsev (violin), Pedro Erazo (percussion, MC), Boris Pelekh (guitar), Ashley Tobias (dance, percussion), Korey Kingston (drums), and Gil Alexandre (bass). SOLIDARITINE was produced by Walter Schreifels and will be released on September 16, 2022 on CD/Digital (with vinyl coming in early 2023) via Casa Gogol/Cooking Vinyl. The album can be pre-ordered here: https://GogolBordello.lnk.to/SolidaritinePR