Gogol Bordello has announced their new album, Seekers and Finders, the seventh in their wide-ranging oeuvre, out August 25 , 2017 via Cooking Vinyl. Written over an extended time on three different continents, Seekers and Finders finds the nine-piece multi-cultural band in top form – an aural party of violins, accordions, trumpet, marimba amongst the standard rock basics of guitars, drum and bass.
“Seekers and Finders is just a very magical and playful record for us,” says frontman Eugene Hütz. “It just feels quite complete in capturing the Gogol familia transcontinental lifestyle, every side of it… the Good, The Bad, and the Snugly.”
In addition to the announcement, the band has also released the first track and lyric video from the album. “Saboteur Blues” is a frenzied punk rocker that flips a middle finger in the face of French philosopher René Descartes. “This song is about the full commitment to the moment and putting the end to this self-sabotage… and going on a rampage with it,” Eugene says. “Our lives are royally sabotaged by our thinking being stuck in our past or future. Girls in French mock-flirt the famous crap fuck shot philosophy ‘I think therefore I am’ of Descartes, while the band is clearly offering the alternative ‘I feel, perceive and experience, therefore I motherfucking rock’.”
Not content to keep the music in its recorded form, Gogol Bordello have announced a full-fledged headlining North American tour to bring the excitement and dynamics to the stage (tour dates below). Tickets will go on sale on Tuesday, June 6 at 10am local time (with the exception of Burlington which will go on sale at 12noon ET) and can be purchased here: http://gogolbordello.shop.ticketstoday.com/calendar.aspx. NYC’s brass/woodwind/drums juggernaut LUCKY CHOPS will be direct support. Tour dates are listed below!
TOUR DATES
8/26Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theatre
9/16 Chicago, IL @ Riot Festival
9/18 Niagara Falls, NY @ Rapids Theater
9/20 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
9/21 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
9/22 Portland, ME @ State Theatre
9/23 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground *noon ET on sale time
9/25 Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
9/26 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Theatre
9/27 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection
9/29 Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s
9/30 Madison, WI @ Breese Stevens Field (supporting Modest Mouse)
10/2 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
10/3 Columbus, OH @ Newport
10/4 Louisville, KY @ Mercury Ballroom
10/6 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls
10/7 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
10/8 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
10/19 Athens, GA @ Georgia Theater
10/20 Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall
10/21 New Orleans, LA @ Joy Theater
10/23 San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theater
10/24 Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey
10/25 Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
10/27 Des Moines, IA @ Wooley’s
10/28 Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre
10/30 Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave
10/31 Lawrence, KS @ The Granada
11/1 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
11/2 Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
11/3 Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Hall