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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...read more
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)... read more
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... read more
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... read more
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... read more
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...read more
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)... read more
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... read more
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... read more
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... read more
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