Kultur Shock - Kultur Diktatura

  by Maarten Schiethart

published: 12 / 6 / 2004

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A Bosnian Serb singer now based in the USA teams up with a Bosnian Croat, a guitarist from Bulgaria, a Japanese bass player, a horn player from the US avant garde plus a punk rock drummer who also digs salsa music. Kultur Shock is the tight unification of these musicians who not only understand each other naturally, but who also never disappoint one other. Enough explanation already; 'Kultura Diktatura' explodes with pure entertainment, but also has a genuine story for you to consider while you're sweating along to its rhythms, and which can be found in the Serbo-Croatian sung lyrics. It's not as if these lyrics are transparent to the English listener. As an excuse singer Gino Srdjan Yvedjevich switches to English sung lyrics on 'Too Late To Fornicate' . This last track and the first downbeat song in the steaming bewilderment, which is 'Kultura Diktatura,' concludes in a clash of mid-European styles. Dominated by a flow of metal chords, this Jack Endino produced third album 'Kultura Diktatura' offers a magnitude of ethnic styles, all of which are performed with absolute control. 'Kamarage' touches effortlessly on metal, balkan punk and oriental music and melts dub beats and hooks as if McDonald's never ever opened up one single joint. Vulcanic eruptions pound on your eardrum, while the heart undergoes a diversion unwitnessed in the history of rock'n roll. Total revolution of the human mind seems to be order of the day and this is only one song. The glorious 'Hashishi' song meanwhile finds Kultur Schock experimenting with hindi pop. 'Kultura Diktatura' features elsewhere a similarly great wealth of styles. Portraying Slobodan Milósevic on the cover, Kultur Shock just about personifes a generation which first discovered earth and then enjoyed it. File under 'ethnic merging' and treasure this. Stupid little white men are lurking in the dark with the intention of spoiling things  

Track Listing:-

1 Tutti Frutti
2 Morto
3 Horse Thief
4 Kamarage
5 Hashishi
6 Alma
7 Da Ye
8 Mustafa
9 Blagunyo Denche
10 Romana
11 Nightmare
12 Nana
13 Too Late to Fornicate

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