NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at Chelsea Studios NYC: Gogol Bordello

Eugene Hütz from Gogol Bordello joined us at Chelsea Studios NYC with an acoustic guitar, a glass of wine, and the bones of two songs from We Mean It, Man! for our latest No Depression session. Opening with a stripped-down version of “Ignition,” Hütz makes clear that even at their most minimal, this batch of songs stands on their own.

Hutz describes the band’s fusion of Ukrainian and Romani roots, Latin flavor, Balkan rave, downtown New York punk, and electronic music, not as a calculated blend but as something absorbed over time. “It wasn’t like, ‘let’s bake a cake with a little of this and a little of that.’ It’s just what’s in our blood,” he says.

The session closes with a ballad called "Boiling Point," originally recorded as a duet with New York songwriter Grace Bergere.

Setlist:
Ignition
Boiling Point