Super Taranta!

Infobox Album | Name = Super Taranta!
Type = Album
Artist = Gogol Bordello


Released = July 10, 2007
Recorded =
Genre = Gypsy punk
Length = 62:44
Label = Side One Dummy
Producer = Victor Van Vugt/Gogol Bordello
Reviews = *"Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/15258703/review/15605635/super_taranta link]
*Q (magazine) Rating|4|5
*Pitchfork Media 5.2/10 [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/44355-super-taranta link]
*Robert Christgau (A+) [http://music.msn.com/music/consumerguide/dec07 link]
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://wm03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kbfrxze5ldse link]
Last album = "Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike"
(2005)
This album = "Super Taranta!"
(2007)

Super Taranta! is the fourth & latest album by gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello released on the 10th of July 2007 on SideOneDummy records. This album was #14 on "Rolling Stone"'s list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007. [ROBERT CHRISTGAU, DAVID FRICKE, CHRISTIAN HOARD, ROB SHEFFIELD (December 17, 2007). [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17601851/the_top_50_albums_of_2007/14 "The Top 50 Albums of 2007"] "Rolling Stone". Retrieved 2007-12-20] "Ultimate" was #82 on "Rolling Stone"'s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. [No byline (December 11, 2007). [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17601363/the_100_best_songs_of_2007/21 "The 100 Best Songs of 2007"] "Rolling Stone". Retrieved 2007-12-21]

Track listing

All lyrics by Eugene Hütz.All music by Eugene Hütz/Gogol Bordello

#"Ultimate" - 3:29
#"Wonderlust King" - 3:58
#"Zina-Marina" - 4:19
#"Supertheory of Supereverything" - 2:56
#"Harem in Tuscany (Taranta)" - 3:33
#"Dub the Frequencies of Love" - 6:15
#"My Strange Uncles from Abroad" - 5:19
#"Tribal Connection" - 5:05
#"Forces of Victory" - 5:23
#"Alcohol" - 4:54
#"Suddenly... (I Miss Carpaty)" - 5:36
#"Your Country" - 4:15
#"American Wedding" - 3:38
#"Super Taranta!" - 6:44

Production

*Produced by Victor Van Vugt and Gogol Bordello
*Recorded by Victor Van Vugt at Long View Farm Recording Studios, March '07
*Additional recordings done at Grace Studios, NY and Integrated Studios, NY, March/April '07
*Assistant Engineers: Josh Sadlier-Brown, Integrated Studios and Ian Neil, Long View Farm Recording Studios
*Mixed by Victor Van Vugt and Eugene Hütz at Grace Studios, NY
*Mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge
*Design by: Cindy Heller
*Photos by: Bela Borsodi, Keetja Allard, Danny North, Liubov Kulkova, Herman Dahlgren, Thomas Gobena, and Eric James Crawford

Personnel

*Eugene Hütz - vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion, Fire Buckets
*Eliot Ferguson - drums, backing vocals
*Oren Kaplan - Guitar, backing vocals
*Sergey Ryabtsev - Violin, backing vocals
*Yuri Lemeshev - Accordion, backing vocals
*Pamela Jintana Racine - percussion, backing vocals
*Elizabeth Sun - percussion, backing vocals
*Thomas "Tommy T" Gobena - Bass, backing vocals
*Pedro Erazo - additional vocals on "Forces Of Victory"
*Piroshka Rac - additional vocals on "Suddenly... (I Miss Carpaty)"
*Slavic Soul Party - brass on "Zina-Marina" and "American Wedding"
**Ben Holmes - truba
**John Carlson - truba
**Jacob Garchik - baritone truba
**Curtis Hasselbring - trombone
**Matt Moran - bubanj

References