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New York's favorite "gypsy punks," Gogol Bordello, recently announced the release of their latest album, tentatively titled Super Taranta, for July 10th on SideOneDummy Records. The album will be the hard-rocking band's fourth and will be produced by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave and the bad Seeds, PJ Harvey).

The band has been longtime fans of Van Vugt's work, according to frontman Eugene Hutz. "Nick Cave is one of the giants, and when we found out that Victor was a fan of our music, it blew me away. Working with him is like working with one of our heroes—who has a direct hotline to more of our heroes!"

In addition to Van Vugt, another new face on this album will be bassist Tommy Gobena, who's worked with Bill Laswell in the past and brings an Ethiopian reggae vibe to the new album. Says Gobena: "I hadn't heard Gogol Bordello before, but when a mutual friend put us in touch and I first listened to their record, it only took me like two minutes to decide that I wanted to be a part of this."

For the uninitated, Gogol Bordello first emerged in New York's East Village in 1998, and rocketed to fame on the back of their raw fusion of Eastern European and Gypsy folk sounds and straight ahead punk rock. Led by manic Ukranian frontman Eugene Hutz, the band's incandescent performances at NYC's famed "Bulgarian Bar" became legendary, and the group's subsequent albums— Voi-La Intruder (2001), Multi Kontra Culti Vs. Irony (2002) and Gypsy Punks (2005)—helped birth the racous "gypsy punk" genre.

According to Hutz, the new album takes it's name from the Italian tarantella, a dance thought to cure the bite of the tarantulla spider. "I was in Napoli," he explains. "And I saw this painting in a restaurant of a woman, lying on the floor, convulsing, with a gypsy musician standing over her... and I thought: 'Yes! Exactly! Music should be the cure!' But this is taranta, it's our own word, because our music is so powerful that it can cure both men and women."

Gogol Bordello plans to follow up the Super Taranta with an international tour beginning this Summer.