Voi-La Intruder Explained

Voi-La Intruder
Type:	studio
Artist:	Gogol Bordello
Cover:	Gogol Bordello - Voi-La Intruder.jpg
Released:	1999
Genre:	Folk punk, Punk rock, Gypsy punk
Label:	Rubric Records Sunken Bell
Producer:	Jim Sclavunos & Gogol Bordello
Next Title:	Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony
Next Year:	2002

Voi-La Intruder is the debut album by Gogol Bordello.^[1] It was released in 1999 by Rubric Records.

Notes

The album is composed in two Movements.

• Tracks 1-10 are Movement One - Songs of Immigration, appx. 35.01 min.
• Tracks 11-15 are Movement Two - Optzay Pertruder, appx. 23.44 min.
• "Start Wearing Purple" was later re-recorded for Gogol Bordello's third album .
• "Nomadic Chronicle" uses lyrics from the song "Jung 'N' Crazee", which had been recorded by Eugene Hutz's previous band The Fags. In addition, "Letter to Castro (Costumes for Tonight)" uses lyrics from The Fags song "Stadium Rock". Both songs appeared on The Fags' independently released album No Fleas, Lunch Money and Gold Teeth, released in 1995.
• The song "Letter to Mother" is based on a poem by Sergei Yesenin entitled "A Letter to Mother".^[2]

Notes and References

1. Buoniconti . Dana . Bloc Rock . CMJ New Music Monthly . Dec 2000 . 88 . 17.
2. http://zhurnal.lib.ru/a/as_w/yesen.shtml#a_letter_to_mother С. Есенин. Сергей Есенин. Сборник стихотворений