Antimusic.com
Gogol Bordello's Tommy T Goes Solo
For the past three years, Tommy T (Thomas T Gobena) has been the
bass player for gypsy punk powerhouse Gogol Bordello. Tommy was
born and raised in Addis Abada (Ethiopia's capital city) and the
knowledge of global rhythms he brings to Gogol's sound has become
part of their unclassifiable approach to music making...
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Chartattack.com
Gogol Bordello Bassist Releasing Solo Album
Gogol Bordello bassist Tommy T will release The Prester John
Sessions, his debut solo album, on Nov. 10 through Easy Star
Records. Tommy T's (real name Thomas T. Gobena) disc will be
available via iTunes Oct. 13. Tommy T wrote and produced The
Prester John Sessions, which was mixed by Victor Van Vugt (Nick
Cave, Gogol Bordello)...
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Uptownmag.com
Go-go-go, all the time
Gypsy punk collective Gogol Bordello to release live DVD and new
studio album
Led by manic, mustachioed, Ukraine-born frontman Eugene Hütz, New
York's genre-spanning gypsy punk collective Gogol Bordello - whose
members hail from all over the globe - has gone from an underground
sensation to a global phenomenon...
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Seemagazine.com
Tommy T: He’s A Woman-Eyeser
Tommy T (né Thomas Gobena) is an Ethiopian rock star. I have never
written that sentence before today. Ethiopian rock star: cross that
one off the list.
Not only is Tommy T a rock star, he, along with his bandmates in
Gogol Bordello, is creating one of the first legitimate
multicultural rock bands. Not some thrown-together attempt at
pandering to the world’s musical tastes, but honest-to-God global
music...
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Winnipegfreepress.com
Nine-piece multicultural band brings politics to the
party
An Ethiopian, a Ukrainian and an American walk into a bar... and a
helluva party breaks out.
That's the simple way to sum up a not-so-simple band, Gogol
Bordello, a nine-member ensemble featuring musicians from seven
different countries who fuse Ukrainian folk melodies with Slavic
and Western rock instrumentation to create the ultimate party
music: gypsy punk...
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