Gogol Bordello: punk gitano en Nueva York

Gogol Bordello es un grupo de gypsy punk de New York formado en 1999. Uno de sus rasgos más característicos son sus frenéticas presentaciones teatrales, y otro su sonido inspirado en la música gitana. La mayor parte de sus miembros son inmigrantes de Europa del este(aunque en realidad esta formado por inmigrantes de todos los origenes) y el grupo utiliza sonidos tradicionales de diferentes regiones, mezclada con otros ritmos mas actuales, como el punk, el ska y el dub. El cantante es, por ejemplo, ucraniano.

Sus canciones suelen estar relacionadas e inspiradas en sus paises de origen y en los problemas de los inmigrantes en los paises donde residen. En su ultimo disco, editado recientemente, la cancion estrella denuncia la situacion de explotacion que viven estos y la necesidad de reaccionar ante esta situacion, pues ningun ser humano es ilegal, ni siquiera aunque asi lo pretendan los intereses de las empresas que usan su indefension para conseguir mano de obra barata, ni por el de los politicos que, como sucede hoy en Francia con los gitanos, -o en la misma Rumania-, los convierten en chivo expiatorio para ocultar su fracaso en el gobierno y la corrupcion extendida en los parlamentos e instituciones publicas.

Otra de sus canciones, esta de su anterior disco, esta basada en una pieza tradicional de los gitanos rumanos, "jesty fata", de la que ellos cambian la letra y versionan la musica para titularla "Madagascar-Rumania". Es un ejemplo de como se inspiran en las canciones tradicionales de sus zonas de origen y la transforman en una potente y original creacion en su estilo caracteristico, que a veces llaman punk gitano.

A continuación, los videos de las tres canciones de las que hemos hablado: "Inmigraniada", una llamada a la lucha de y por los inmigrantes de todo origen y en todo destino, y "Madagascar-Rumania", y la version original de esta, "Jesty Fata", una cancion de los gitanos de Rumania.

IMMIGRANIADA

Immigrada immigraniada
Immigrada immigraniada-da
Immigrada immigraniada
We're coming rougher every time

We're coming rougher
We're coming rougher
We're coming rougher every time

Immigrada immigraniada
Immigrada immigraniada-da
Immigrada immigraniada
We're coming rougher every time

In corridors full of tear gas
Our destinies jammed every day
Like deleted scenes from Kafka
Flushed down the bureaucratic drain

But if you give me the invitation
To hear the bells of freedom chime
To hell with your double standards
We're coming rougher every time

We're coming rougher
We're coming rougher
We're coming rougher every time

Immigrada immigraniada
Immigrada immigraniada-da
Immigrada immigraniada
We're coming rougher every time

All those who made it and quickly jaded
To them we got nothing to say
Our immigrada, immigraniada
For them it's Don Quixote's kind of way
But if you give me the invitation
To hear the bells of freedom chime
To hell with your double standards
We're coming rougher every time
We're coming rougher
We're coming rougher
We're coming rougher every time
We're coming rougher every time

Immigrada immigraniada
Immigrada immigraniada-da
Immigrada immigraniada
We're coming rougher every time

Frozen eyes, sweaty back
My family's sleeping on a railroad track
All my life I pack/unpack
But man I got to earn this buck
I gotta pay representation
To be accepted in a nation
Where after efforts of a hero
Welcome start again from zero

It's a book of our true stories
True stories that can't be denied
It's more than true it actually happened
It's more than true it actually happened
It's more than true it actually happened
We're coming rougher every time
Rougher every time
We're coming rougher every time
Immigrada immigraniada
Immigrada immigraniada-da
Immigrada immigraniada
We're coming rougher every time
Immigrada immigraniada
Immigrada immigraniada-da hey hey
We're coming rougher every time

 

MADAGASCAR-ROMANIA

So now you tell me you are living in a country
where joys and freedom they can not be tried
but alone in your mind there are so many rooms
that you never seem to find...
there is a room where your toolbox is waiting
but you just never go there when you are awake
when most of the time whatever that you look for
you could of just sit down and make
so do 'the right thing'. just do 'the right thing'
How can you do it if you are awake?!
Instead I scratch my forehead like Aladdin his lamp...

'Cus even in Madagascar
we'll find some shack below radar
put two turntables and a film projector in that room
and punk rock 'n' roll most faithfully...
It will occure-cure-cure! ... cure cure cure!

Instead you run to your llittle birdfeeder
and stick your beak in the seeds your master laid
where did they came from? Who put them in there?
Oh you will never know their name!
But there is a room where bustle and merry
and big ceremony could be going on,
where your true talents along with birthrights
could be dancing can-can
'Cus even in Madagascar... and even in Antarctica!
even in Azerbaijan!

Put two turntables and a film projector in that room
and punk rock 'n' roll most faithfully...
it will occure-cure-cure! ...cure! cure! cure!
...and sewing machine too!



TU JESTY FATA (letra en una mezcla de rumano popular y rromaní)

Tu esti fata care n-are , n-are , n-are suflet n-are, care n-are suflet n-are....
Haide fata tu afara sa te vada toti tiganii, Haide fata tu afaraaaaaa
Hai Doamne ce-i cu fire ,nu-ti gasesc ce-i cu mine, hai off Doamne ce-i cu
fireee x 2

Tu esti fata fata buna, care cu mine se joaca, care cu mine nu se joaca
Haide fata tu afara sa te vada toti tiganii, Haide fata tu afaraaaaaa

Hai Doamne ce-i cu fire, de-ti gasesc ce e cu mine, hai off Doamne ce-i cu
fireee x 2

dadadadaddadadadadda

lalalaallaaal nananananananananana

Hai Doamne ce-i cu fire ,nu gasesc ce e cu mine, hai oiii Doamne ce-i cu

fire x 2

Hai Doamne ce-i cu fire ,nu gasesc ce e cu mine, hai oiii Doamne ce-i cu

fire

To li wedmi, to li tsigane,

a mi ni huia ne znaem, ai oiii, ni huia ne znaem.