Gogol Bordello's "What's In My Bag?" | Amoeba Music

0:00 Yeah, what's happening?

0:01 I'm Eugene Hoots from Google Bello.

0:03 We are at the beloved ammoeba and uh this is what was found in my bag.

0:09 [music] [music] Here [music] we go.

0:33 I didn't see this on vinyl, but it's Zombie Bird House Eagle.

0:41 [singing] [music] in a gentle way.

0:49 [music]

0:52 Some people consider to be like super obscure record.

0:55 This is a very much talked about record in our bubble.

0:58 In fact, a good friend of mine wrote

1:01 an essay on this album alone and its importance.

1:06 It's definitely nothing obscure to us.

1:09 The shining [music] moon tree like this appeal to me.

1:14 [music] I got some loving arms around me.

1:19 Kind of a very psychedelic record.

1:21 It came out on Chris's label, Animal Records, which also released James Chance.

1:26 By mentioning this, I'm kind of mentioning also great James

1:29 Chance and the Contortions cuz that's just fundamental New York Records.

1:37 [music] THEY GOT TO SCRATCH THEIR ASS.

1:44 Next one.

1:44 Uh 7 in from Gorilla Biscuits.

1:47 One of the most important New York hardcore bands.

1:50 [music] ever.

1:58 I'm extremely attached to the whole hardcore

2:00 movement because that was essentially music that kind

2:03 of made me feel home when I first came to America in uh 1990.

2:08 This was kind of a new wave of hardcore bands back then at 87 88.

2:13 So, Gorilla Biscus is credited as originators

2:15 of the new wave of youth crew hardcore.

2:18 [snorts] [music] Get the little kids from getting the people you know.

2:28 [music] The songs are great.

2:31 Everything is boiled down.

2:33 Just extremely exciting band.

2:35 This was on Revelation Records.

2:37 It's always good to track down hunt down anything by Gorilla Biscuits.

2:41 This has members from Youth of Today

2:43 and Walter Strafles who produced their last album.

2:45 It's time to [music] stand up on what you believe.

2:48 I don't care of your friends like you.

2:51 Just understand.

2:53 [music] Here we go.

2:58 Rome.

2:59 I have no idea what this sounds like, but I'm in.

3:13 It's vicel Roma which means in Romani language funloving Romanes.

3:19 I think this is probably Serbia or Croatia.

3:22 This looks like these guys know the roots very well and then

3:26 they are taking it to the extreme next level right here.

3:29 It's one of those things that you probably like go to Macedonia

3:32 and walking into some uh restaurant and get blown away with some local act.

3:36 You know, it was like most tripped out experience you ever

3:39 had because they're absolute vtosos and probably never left their hometown.

3:42 But yeah, I'm really looking forward to chamming in right here.

3:53 [music] Okay.

3:55 Uh, one of uh most influential and most important bands for me.

4:07 [music] This is a very groundbreaking band that kind of gave

4:16 a voice to their soul using strictly well not strictly they did have

4:20 a bass guitar from the beginning

4:22 but it was mostly industrial tools sledgehammers

4:25 and all sorts of percussions all recorded in a spooked out acoustic setting.

4:32 [music] This record is probably most, as they say,

4:46 accessible to people who are not usually tuned in into that kind of thing.

4:50 And it has quite a bit of techno influence,

4:52 which is important because techno is very influential on everything we hear.

4:57 It's incredibly influential for go bordello in a way that people

5:01 perhaps don't quue in, but if you really think about it,

5:03 punk rock is kind of rave of its own.

5:06 This is a very masterful record of no bouton with extra musicality to it.

5:10 I would say not that they had any lack of musicality before,

5:14 but this actually had something as they even say possibly catchy.

5:27 Now, anytime you see a face of exhausted carney,

5:31 you know, you know he's got the vibe down.

5:33 So, you got to get that.

5:34 This comes from Greece.

5:38 [music and singing] [music] It's probably Rematica.

5:47 I'm going to take a chance on that.

5:48 Remica is a kind of a music of opioid spas

5:53 and establishments that they used to have scattered through a Mediterranean.

5:57 This is probably like some opium dungeon

5:59 laments about how we're all going to die.

6:02 [music] [music] I'm a fan of so I collected a lot of records from that world.

6:15 Yeah.

6:15 Recording from 1932 to 36.

6:17 Can't go wrong.

6:18 Exhausted carnivalos.

6:21 They know [music] the next one.

6:31 The aesthetics.

6:36 [music] So, the aesthetics.

6:43 This one features James Brandon Lewis.

6:46 I've seen Mesthetics as soon as they formed.

6:49 It's Brandon Kunty and Joel Ali from Fugazi also with Anthony Perrog on guitar.

6:54 This was already a fantastic band and when James

6:57 Brandon Lewis joined in it became extraordinary fantastic band.

7:05 [music] I guess it's a logical progression for guys from Fugazi

7:16 to lean into more into a Prague rock fusion side of things.

7:20 There was always side of that in Fugazi.

7:23 Joe's baselines and Brandon's playing.

7:25 There was always a bit of return to forever and early fusion records.

7:29 [music] [music] This is really kind of a kind

7:43 of dream scenario of Fugazi fans who were

7:46 into that side of Fugazi of that dreamed out

7:49 not proggy but that specific thing that Fugazi did.

7:52 It had a other dimensions to go.

7:54 So this is that dimension and you know with a saxophone this is

7:57 just going to be explosive experience on any jazz festival or any rock festival.

8:02 They're going to be like greatest anomaly of all times.

8:05 Absolutely fantastic.

8:06 Yeah.

8:07 [music] [music] This one came out like in April, I think.

8:22 It's new Viagra boys record.

8:23 The band is superb live and they do manage

8:26 lay down on a record as well quite impressively.

8:30 [music] around the internet looking at me.

8:35 I hate [music] almost everything that I see that I just want to disappear.

8:41 I really like this new record.

8:43 Seeing them first 7 8 years ago,

8:45 it was kind of dead set on being that Stogis Funhouse band.

8:49 An amazing foundation for any project, but this kind of went in with a more

8:53 addition of electro sound subtly implemented in there.

8:56 It's kind of more DVO influenced side, a little bit of a butthole surface.

9:01 It's just great band.

9:03 I'm always watching what they're doing.

9:06 [music] This I was really happy to stumble into the hypnotics.

9:24 [music] [music] I'm a huge fan of psychedelic music of all shapes and forms.

9:36 The hypnotics had a lot to do with new psychedelia

9:40 I guess they called it and you know that kind

9:41 of was bubbling up in England in late 80s

9:44 and eventually kind of peaked with stone roses and happy

9:48 Mondays and charlatans who were kind of all took

9:50 it into break beats kind of direction but the hypnotics

9:53 were probably the closest to carrying on the vibe

9:58 of very stoogis meets Jimmyi Hendris and doing it right.

10:03 [music] for my brain.

10:09 [music] Yeah.

10:12 Come on.

10:13 Replicating Stooges is not something that's really possible.

10:16 I think through starting with that, they kind of came into their own fullon

10:20 identity by just keeping it a lot more bluesy and a lot more Hendrickxy.

10:24 I have all of their albums and uh unfortunately they don't have enough bootlegs.

10:28 This is exactly kind of band that would probably benefit because this is like

10:32 the vibe band that just vibes and vibes and vibes and if you're into that vibe,

10:36 you'll never get enough of it.

10:38 The Hypnotics.

10:39 Yes.

10:43 [music] [music] This is record of Grace Bger called A Little Blood.

10:54 This was just released on our label Kazogle

10:57 Records and this is something not to miss out.

11:00 [music] [singing] [music]

11:11 As a producer, once in a while you get a freebie where you

11:15 walk into a new act that doesn't need any prepping or it's really rare.

11:20 Grace is an unbelievable songwriter.

11:23 I kind of consider this to be a absolute masterpiece.

11:27 [music] [music] Lastly, here's the encyclopedia of all the other crazy

11:45 ass bands that we release on Kazog Records.

11:47 This is our first manifesto release.

11:50 You have Marish Shelly, an outstanding band from New York City.

11:53 Very much along the lines of talking heads,

11:55 DVO and Viagra boys and kind of new spin on things.

11:59 [music] [music]

12:10 pawns which is a very very much a continuation of no wave New York tradition.

12:16 [music] [music] You got Puzzled Panther doing the cover of uh Sonic Youth.

12:27 A lot of great stuff.

12:28 [snorts] [music] Yeah, I got some dirty, baby.

12:39 Thank you so much for coming in.

12:40 I really appreciate it.

12:41 Yeah, absolutely.

12:42 We didn't even get around to the soundtrack section.

12:44 I'd be here for another 6 hours joning for some annoy.

12:48 We'll have you back for part two.

12:50 Thank you.

12:52 [music] [music] Turn on your liquid.

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