| Gogol Bordello / Live From Axis Mundi |
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| Album: | Live From Axis Mundi | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Gogol Bordello | Added: | Oct 2009 | |
| Label: | Side One Dummy Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-12-13 | Pull Date: | 2010-02-14 |
| Week Ending: | Feb 14 | Feb 7 | Jan 10 | Jan 3 | Dec 20 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 26, 2016: | Music Casserole Stivali E Colbacco | 4. | Mar 05, 2010: | The Songsmith Show Wonderlust King | |
| 2. | Jul 08, 2011: | Music Casserole You Gave Up | 5. | Feb 13, 2010: | New World Disorder Ultimate | |
| 3. | Mar 12, 2010: | Buford J. Sharkley's Titular Multiplicities Alcohol | 6. | Feb 12, 2010: | The Songsmith Show Ultimate |
| Album Review |
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| Wallace Brontoon Reviewed 2009-12-13 | ||
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Gogol Bordello : "Live from Axis Mundi" Label: Side One Dummy Reviewed 12-03-09 Eastern-European punk, with Gypsy jazz overtones. Goofy, high-energy vocals. Consistent with Gogol Bordello's typical sound, though I'm not familiar enough with the albums to note the differences between these versions and the originals. "Live from Axis Mundi"-- though only the first half is live-- the second is studio outtakes and demos. Stick with the first half, it's really the tops, and the energy is clear. 1. *** Spare opening, builds to manic orchestra, then really drives. 2. Starts with kind of dopey call-and-response, but orchestra comes in, and gets pretty catchy. 3. Gypsy jazz guitar, wonky accordian. More of same, for better or worse. (Long-- 6:30) 4. Much more of a ballad-- nice duet effect. 5. [FCC--- "fucking" at about 1:25, sounds like they tried to blanch it out, but did a poor job of it.] Backy to goofy and driving. Very catchy. 6. *** Uptempo, builds to rabid guitar solo halfway through. Weird, gasping vocals. Meandering, scats its way to eight and a half minutes. A little bit of everything. Oh, and a fake out ending that sounds like a different song. (Skip the fake-out.) 7. ** More uptempo-- some nice gypsy fiddling. Wow, some really nice fiddling. Probably the Russian-est song on the album. 8. In-your-face, gravelly vocals, almost heavy-metallish. Eh-- it's good, except for chorus, and gets sweeter-sounding as it goes. (Six minutes) 9. [FCC-- clear "fucking" at 55 seconds, and "shit" soon after. And another "fucking."] Brash. Good instrumentation, but maybe a little too shrill in first half. Second half is more nuanced. (Six minutes, with glib aside as it closes.) 10. Percussion-heavy. Not very Slavic to start... oh, there's a fiddle in the background. More of a hip-hop type arrangement than the more Slavic tracks. Eh. 11. Instrumental-- exactly like track ten, but with baritone sax instead of vocal. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Ultimate | 6. | You Gave Up | |||
| 2. | Wonderlust King | 7. | Stivali E Colbacco | |||
| 3. | Mishto | 8. | Troubled Friends | |||
| 4. | Alcohol | 9. | 60 Revolutions | |||
| 5. | American Wedding | 10. | Immigrant Punk (Demo) | |||
| 11. | Immigrant Punk (Instrumental) | |||||