GOGOL BORDELLO SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM PURA VIDA CONSPIRACY
ON ATO RECORDS/CASA GOGOL RECORDS ON JULY 23
TO STREAM NEW GOGOL BORDELLO SONG "MALANDRINO" CLICK HERE
New York, NY - May 1, 2013 - Internationally renowned gypsy punk rock group Gogol Bordello return with their sixth full-length album Pura Vida Conspiracy via ATO Records/Casa Gogol Records on July 23. Produced by Andrew Sheps, the new album was recorded in El Paso, Texas at Sonic Ranch Studios and is a powerful collection of 12 surging new songs. In celebration of May Day, an ancient public holiday known for raucous celebrations, Gogol Bordello offer up a stream of their rebellious new song "Malandrino" to get the party started. Click HERE to listen.
The album's title is derived from a Spanish slang phrase for "pure life," which is a theme that resonates throughout the new material. The disc's opener, "We Rise Again," introduces the album's limitless, all-embracing themes instantly, centered on a chorus of "Borders are scars on face of the planet." The new songs are infused with ideas rooted in Eastern philosophy but also search for a means of joining fragmented parts and persons, and of creating a worldwide consciousness.
"For me music is a way to explore human potential," Hutz says. "And that's my main interest in life - human potential. Everyone knows there's something inside of us that we're not using. How do we get it? How do we reach it? Every single person knows that there's something and nobody knows what it is. So at one point I said to myself, I'm gonna get down and get it."
Gogol Bordello has spent the last decade getting down with that energy through their meteoric live shows and has earned a solid reputation as "the hottest global touring act to come out of New York (Billboard)" and "the world's most riotous live band (Rolling Stone)." Their wildly energetic live shows are celebrated by fans worldwide and have brought them to nearly every corner of the globe and to the main stage of festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Roskilde, Rock am Ring, Reading and Leeds to name just a few. In addition, Gogol Bordello's recordings have earned them critical acclaim worldwide and have attracted some of the most respected collaborators and producers including 2005's Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, produced by indie legend Steve Albini, 2007's SUPER TARANTA! (produced by Victor Van Vugt) and declared by music critic Robert Christgau as "the best rock album of the decade. Period." and 2010's Trans-Continental Hustle produced by Rick Rubin.
Gogol Bordello will return to the US in May for select dates on their first club tour since May 2012 and will be performing at major music festivals around the globe this summer. For a complete listing of tour dates, please see below or click HERE.
GOGOL BORDELLO TOUR DATES:
DATE | CITY | COUNTRY | VENUE |
May 10, 2013 | Coimbra | Portugal | Coimbra Student Festival |
May 11, 2013 | Porto | Portugal | Porto Student Festival |
May 30, 2013 | Robbins Crossing, OH | United States | |
May 31, 2013 | St. Louis, MO | United States | |
June 1, 2013 | Ozark, AR | United States | |
June 1, 2013 - June 2, 2013 | Houston, TX | United States | |
June 4, 2013 | Tulsa, OK | United States | |
June 5, 2013 | Memphis, TN | United States | |
June 7, 2013 | Indianapolis, IN | United States | |
June 8, 2013 | Milwaukee, WI | United States | |
June 9, 2013 | Belle Isle, Detroit MI | United States | |
June 14, 2013 | Donington Park | United Kingdom | |
June 16, 2013 | Aarhus | Denmark | NorthSide Festival |
June 18, 2013 | Warsaw | Poland | |
June 19, 2013 | Wroclaw | Poland | |
June 21, 2013 - June 23, 2013 | Scheeßel | Germany | |
June 21, 2013 - June, 23 2013 | Neuhausen ob Eck | Germany | |
June 26, 2013 | Borlange | Sweden | |
June 28, 2013 | Stord | Norway | |
June 29, 2013 | Kristiansand | Norway | Ravnefest |
June 30, 2013 | Paris | France | |
July 3, 2013 | Hradec Kralove | Czech Republic | |
July 5, 2013 | St Denis de Gastine | France | |
July 6, 2013 | Saint Prouant | France | |
July 7, 2013 | Kontich | Belgium | |
July 20, 2013 | Greenfield, MA | United States | |
July 25, 2013 | Floyd, VA | United States | |
July 27, 2013 | Bristow, VA | United States | |
August 3, 2013 | Bonner Springs, KS | United States | |
August 8, 2013 - August 10, 2013 | Squamish, BC | Canada | |
September 21, 2013 | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | |
September 23, 2013 | Porto Alegre | Brazil | |
September 24, 2013 | Curitiba | Brazil | |
September 25, 2013 | São Paulo | Brazil |