KULTUR SHOCK IN ITALIANS AT THE END OF OCTOBER

by Antonella La Carpa

A real 'culture shock' that will result in Kultur Shock 22 to 24 October on the stages of Bloom Mezzago (MI), the X-Roads dell'Estragon of Rome and Bologna. Group gipsy / punk will present the fourth record, 'Integration' in output Goodfellas. You could call it a folk band with rock influences, but the music of Kultur Shock is a lot more. Stems from the Balkan tradition, while maintaining a vein comes from the fact that the western reside in the United States, to be exact in Seattle.

The Kultur Shock are part of that trend whose leading representatives are Gogol Bordello, with whom they toured in 2006. Last year they opened the concert by Goran Bregovic in Arezzo, by dancing and unleash more than three thousand people. Fact hard to avoid being overwhelmed by the pace and energy of the seven members of the team, led by singer Gino Srdjan Bosnian Yevdjevic.

Overwhelming not only live but also in their disks, which have-route 'internationalized', over the years, while losing the originality and the matrix folklore. It came on the fourth studio album, 'Integration', out in September for the Goodfellas and produced by Jack Endino, producer of Nirvana and Soundgarden to others. To promote the band will undertake a tour that will touch all of Europe between October and December 2009 and arriving in Italy with three events in autumn.

The current training of Kultur Shock, besides the above mentioned Yevdjevic singer, the musician Matty Noble, drummer Chris Stromquist, guitarist Val Bulgarian, bassist Guy Michael Davis, the multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist Amy violinist and finally Paris. The dates of Mezzago and Rome, the band will be preceded by Jacinto Canek, training Venetian that has met considerable success in the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

THURSDAY '- 22 OCTOBER - MEZZAGO (MI) - BLOOM - Input: € 10 Friday' - October 23 - ROMA-X-ROADS LIVE CLUB - Analog: € 10 Saturday - October 24 - BOLOGNA - ESTRAGON - Input: € 10 Info 02.76113055 ufficio.stampa @ barleyarts.com Press Office Barley Arts www.barleyarts.com www.kulturshock.com