GYPSY PUNKS UNDERDOG 04/10/2001 Don Grolnick (piano)

Don Grolnick (piano)

Their albums clearly motivated the New York avant-garde dance movement of the early '80s

Recording information: Midas Studios

Jimmy Crawford (guitar)

GYPSY PUNKS UNDERDOG 04/10/2001 Don Grolnick (piano)These "gypsy punks," as the band jubilantly describes itself, were once precisely that, a spectacular clash of cultures that smashed the exuberance of Ukrainian gypsy music and the pounding rhythms and exhilarating fire of Slavic folk, with the roar of punk rock. That was then, but now globalization has got them in its grip, and Gogol Bordello set about crashing through national boundaries, reconnecting the cultural links borders have severed. If a