GOGOL BORDELLO’S NEW ALBUM ‘TRANS-CONTINENTAL HUSTLE’ AVAILABLE APRIL 27

GOGOL BORDELLO'S NEW ALBUM 'TRANS-CONTINENTAL HUSTLE' AVAILABLE APRIL 27

Los Angeles, CA — Trans-Continental Hustle, the avidly-awaited fifth studio album from rebel rockers Gogol Bordello, will be released on American Recordings on April 27th. Produced by Rick Rubin, Trans-Continental Hustle is an extraordinary 13-song powerhouse that continues the band’s cultural crusade to unite and celebrate unending originality against all odds.

On Trans-Continental Hustle Gogol Bordello bring us to a new exotic destination, Brazil, where frontman and visionary Eugene Hutz took up residence two years ago. Trans-Continental Hustle is heavily informed by Hutz’s experiences living in a country rich with diversity.

On Trans-Continental Hustle, Hutz’s experience-driven-Gonzo-mania is transformed into a seeker of harmony and understanding.  Songs on Trans-Continental Hustle bring the listener straight into the heart of the situation whether it be joining forces with gypsies of Brazil as on “Uma Menina Uma Cigana,” melancholy strike in the midst of carnival near death experiences as on “Sun on My Side” or themes of transcontinental love devastations.  As one of today’s most revered live bands with over 200 shows a year, Hutz’s intense personal life appears on the album like a second plot, or Transcontinental Love hustle, running parallel to endless travel through continents.

Produced by Rick Rubin, Trans-Continental Hustle is the next powerful step in the band’s evolution.  Rubin brings Eugene’s songwriting skills to focus and also lets the band speak to its authenticity with deeper melodic qualities. “Rick inspired us to focus on the very soul entity of the song,” say Hutz on working with Rubin for the first time. “He inspires confidence to always do your best and mature work.”

Gogol Bordello also introduces a driving rhythm section on songs such as “Raise The Knowledge” and “Last One Goes The Hope” with the arrival of drummer Oliver Charles, Ethiopian bassist Thomas Gobena (Bill Laswell) and Latino American percussionist Pedro Erazo-Segovia. Gogol Bordello’s stellar line-up also includes Sergey Rjabtzev on violin, Yuri Lemeshev on accordion, Oren Kaplan on guitar, dancer/percussionists Elizabeth Sun and Pamela Jintana Racine as well as our fearless leader Eugene Hutz on vocals, guitar and percussion.

Trans-Continental Hustle is the first Gogol Bordello studio album since 2007’s SUPER TARANTA! which inspired the rarest of accolades, an “A+” from Robert Christgau, who called them “the world’s most visionary band.”  Gogol Bordello’s radical invocations of positive primal energy and planetary consciousness combine with a music infused with ska, metal, punk, rap, dub and, more recently, intimations of indigenous Brazilian sounds to produce a party maelstrom of electrifying proportions.

For more information on Gogol Bordello visit www.gogolbordello.com

TRACK LISTING:
1.      Pala Tute
2.      My Companjera
3.      Sun Is On My Side
4.      Rebellious Love
5.      We Comin’ Rougher (Immigraniada)
6.      When Universes Collide
7.      Uma Menina Uma Cigana
8.      Raise The Knowledge
9.      Last One Goes The Hope
10.   To Rise Above
11.   In The Meantime In Pernambuco
12.   Break The Spell
13.   Trans-Continental Hustle

GOGOL BORDELLO TOUR DATES BELOW
Date                          City                    Venue
Tue   Mar, 30   Melbourne, AUS      Billboard
Wed  Mar, 31   Sydney, AUS            The Metro
Fri     Apr, 2      Brisbane, AUS         The HiFi
Sun   Apr, 4      Byron Bay, AUS       Byron Bay Blues Fest
Mon  Apr, 5      Byron Bay, AUS       Byron Bay Blues Fest

CASA GOGOL NORTH AMERICA TOUR DATES BELOW
All Casa Gogol North America dates below will include performance by DeVotchKa, Jesse Malin and St. Mark’s Social, and Tres Leches Afterparty Sound Crew as support.

Date                           City                       Venue
Sun   Apr, 18    Montreal, QC               Metropolis
Tue   Apr, 20    Toronto, ON                Sound Academy
Wed  Apr, 21    Detroit, MI                   Royal Oak
Fri     Apr, 23    Chicago, IL                  Congress
Sat     Apr, 24   Minneapolis, MN        First Ave
Sun    Apr, 25   Minneapolis, MN        First Ave
Wed   Apr, 28   Boston, MA                  House of Blues
Thu    Apr, 29   Baltimore, MD             Rams Head Live
Fri      Apr, 30   Baltimore, MD             Rams Head Live
Sat      May, 1     Philadelphia, PA         Electric Factory

CASA GOGOL EUROPEAN TOUR DATES BELOW
All Casa Gogol European dates below, except festivals in bold, include performances by Forro in the Dark, Mariachi El Bronx, and Tres Leches Afterparty Sound Crew as support.
** Forro in the Dark NOT performing at these shows
#  Announced as The Bronx (not Mariachi El Bronx)

Date                           City                            Venue
Fri        May, 7      London, UK                 Hammersmith Apolo #
Sat       May, 8      Manchester, UK          Academy
Sun      May, 9      Glasgow, UK                Academy
Mon     May, 10    Norwich, UK                UEA
Tue       May, 11     Birmingham, UK        Academy
Fri        May, 14     Bulligny/Nancy, FR   JDM Fest
Sat        May, 15     Longirod, CH              Longirock

Sun       May, 16     Karlsruhe, GER         Tollhaus
Tue       May, 18     Paris, FR                     Elysee Montmartre
Wed      May, 19     Toulouse, FR             Le Bikini
Fri         May, 21     Madrid, SP                 La Riviera**
Sat        May, 22     Barcelona, SP            Razzmatazz**
Mon      May, 24    Bologna, IT                Estragoon
Tue       May, 25      Milan, IT                   Alcatraz
Wed      May, 26      Zurich, CH               Xtra
Thu       May, 27      Wien, AT                  Gasometer **
Tue       Jun, 1          Amsterdam, NL      Paradiso **
Wed      Jun, 2         Hamburg, GER       Docks **
Thu       Jun, 3         Berlin, GER    Astra/Columbia Halle **
Fri        Jun, 4          Nuremburg, GER   Rock im Park
Sun      Jun, 6          Nurburgring, GER Rock am Ring

For more information, please contact:

Allison Elbl
ID
323.822.4851
aelbl@id-pr.com

Benny Tarantini
Columbia Records
212-833-5858
benny.tarantini@sonymusic.com

www.gogolbordello.com
www.myspace.com/gogolbordello

Author: Paola