(noticia) Slavic folk, flamenco, punk. And that's just for starters.

Wildly eclectic Gogol Bordello createsa sound that reflects its global makeup

By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff | January 15, 2006

''It's an authentic band from the scratch," says Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello, his gypsy-punk-cabaret collective. The Ukrainian-born New Yorker, an effusive mangler of his second language, is explaining how Gogol Bordello, named (aptly) after the absurdist author and an Italian brothel, wound up as part of the 2002 Whitney Biennial, in the pages of glossy monthlies, and on the rise in a popular culture that seems to grow safer with each ''American Idol" season.

''You don't have to schmooze it when you really rock! Our band is a cool example of the fact that no matter how much you brainwash people and tell them what it is they want, they still at the end of the day return to their guttural feeling," Hutz says. ''They know they want something that will say it how it is." What a no-nonsense concept.

And yet in the hands of two Russians, a pair of Israelis, one Chinese-Scot, a Thai-American, an Ecuadorian, the Ukrainian, and a plain old Floridian, telling it like it is translates to a frenzy of sounds that straddles the globe and the ages. It's not just the eccentric combo of Slavic folk and dub effects, or the brain-scrambling mash of flamenco and punk, or the revolutionary zeal with which Hutz fuses politics, lechery, and accordions on the group's new album, ''Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike."

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