Culture Shock

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Culture Shock
At the Bumbershoot Festival 2007 (from left: Val Kiossovski, Matty Noble, Gino Yevdjevich).
At the Bumbershoot Festival 2007 (from left: Val Kiossovski, Matty Noble, Gino Yevdjevich).
General information
Genre (s) Balkan punk
founding 1996
Website http://www.kulturshock.com
Current occupation
Gino Yevdjevich
Val Kiossovski
Masa Kobayashi
Chris Stromquist
guitar
 Mario Butkovic
Amy Denio
former members
Matty Noble
violin
 Paris Hurley
Electric bass
 Guy Davis

Kultur Shock is a multinational band based in the United States .

history

Kultur Shock was founded in 1996 in Seattle . The founder and singer of the band is Srđan "Gino" Jevđević (American spelling: Srdjan Yevdjevich), who already made a career as a pop star with his band Gino Banana in Yugoslavia . Together with Mario Butković ( guitar ), who also comes from Bosnia , he came to the USA due to the turmoil of the war over Bosnia. Born in Bulgaria, Val Kiossovski (guitar) came to the USA as a political refugee in 1991 and has been with the band since 2000. In addition to Jevđević and Kiossovski, the current line-up includes the Americans Chris Stromquist ( drums ), Guy Davis ( electric bass ), Amy Denio ( saxophone and clarinet ) and Paris Hurley ( violin ).

Kultur Shock's first albums were released by Billy Gould's independent label KoolArrow Records . The band's albums have been released on their own label Kultur Shock Records since 2007 ( Live in Europe ) . In March 2014 the band started a crowdfunding campaign to enable the production of their 9th album. The album was released in early 2015, but was made available for free on Soundcloud a few months beforehand .

style

The music of Kultur Shock combines elements of punk , new metal , latin , funk and fusion jazz with the influences of music from the Balkan region . For example, their first album Live in America featured the Bosnian folk song Moj dilbere , a Sevdalinka , and the Roma love song Djelem, djelem . The band members refer to their music as Balkan punk .

Jevđević's lyrics are often humorous and political and reflect his anarchist worldview. He sings in English , Bosnian , Spanish ( Mano Mi Hermano on We Came to Take Your Jobs Away ), Bulgarian ( Duna on We Came to Take Your Jobs Away ) and German (in the chorus of House of Labor on Ministry of Kultur ).

Discography

  • Tales of the Two Gurus, Vol. 2 , single with Edo Maajka , 2016, Kultur Shock Records
  • Live at Home , 2015, self-released on Bandcamp
  • IX , 2014, Culture Shock Records
  • Tales of Grandpa Guru, Vol. 1 , EP, 2012, self-released on Bandcamp
  • Live at Exit Fest 2010 , Live DVD, 2011, Kultur Shock Records
  • Ministry of Kultur , 2011, Kultur Shock Records
  • Integration , 2009, Kultur Shock Records
  • Live in Europe , 2007, Kultur Shock Records
  • We Came to Take Your Jobs Away , 2006, Koolarrow Records
  • Kultura-Diktatura , 2004, Koolarrow Records
  • FUCC The INS , 2001, Koolarrow Records
  • Live in America , 1999, Pacific Records

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kultur Shock is raising funds to produce their ninth record on IndieGoGo.com (accessed March 19, 2014).
  2. ↑ http://kulturshock.com/bio
  3. ↑ Cf. the lines "I am not afraid of law / I'm an anarchist" in the song Duga ' by Ministry of Kultur ( http://kulturshock.com/page:lyrics ( Memento from July 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) ).

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