Voi-La Intruder

Voi-La Intruder is the debut album by Gogol Bordello, released in 1999 by Rubric Records.

Voi-La Intruder
Studio album by Gogol Bordello
Released	1999
Genre	Gypsy punk
Length	56:58
Label	Rubric
Producer	Jim Sclavunos & Gogol Bordello
Gogol Bordello chronology
Voi-La Intruder (1999) Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony (2002)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Robert Christgau	[1]
Punknews.org	[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sacred Darling"	1:48
2.	"Voi-La Intruder"	3:07
3.	"Greencard Husband"	2:20
4.	"Passport"	4:21
5.	"Start Wearing Purple"	3:25
6.	"Shy Kind of Guy"	3:27
7.	"Mussolini vs. Stalin"	2:43
8.	"Letter to Mother"	3:50
9.	"God-Like"	5:33
10.	"Nomadic Chronicle"	4:22
11.	"Letter to Castro (Costumes for Tonight)"	3:21
12.	"Unvisible Zedd"	4:27
13.	"Sex Spider"	3:07
14.	"No Threat"	3:32
15.	"Against the Nature"	7:22

Notes

The album is composed in two Movements.

• Tracks 1-10 are Movement One - Songs of Immigration, appx. 35.01 min.
• Tracks 11-15 are Movement Two - Optzay Pertruder, appx. 23.44 min.
• "Start Wearing Purple" was later re-recorded for Gogol Bordello's third album Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike.
• "Nomadic Chronicle" uses lyrics from the song "Jung 'N' Crazee", which had been recorded by Eugene Hutz's previous band The Fags. In addition, "Letter to Castro (Costumes for Tonight)" uses lyrics from The Fags song "Stadium Rock". Both songs appeared on The Fags' independently released album No Fleas, Lunch Money and Gold Teeth, released in 1995.
• The song "Letter to Mother" is based on a poem by Sergei Yesenin entitled "A Letter to Mother".[3]

References

1. "Review by Robert Christgau". Retrieved 22 April 2011.
2. AngryRobo (16 October 2009). "Voi-La Intruder". Punknews.org. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
3. С. Есенин. Сергей Есенин. Сборник стихотворений