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Kultur Shock

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About Me


Kultur Shock isn't just the name of our band.

It's Balkan punk rock gypsy metal wedding-meets-riot music from Bulgaria, the US, Japan, and Bosnia. Six members, and no two of us really speak the same language.
You may wonder what brought such an unrelated, mixed-up group of people together, and you can read our biographies to find out. Call our music whatever the fuck you want -- we'll still play every song of every performance as if it were our last.
Right now we are stuck between two worlds. One we left -- that of our homelands -- but we did not become a part of the other world, the hip rockstar world. We had to work for our living like all the other immigrants, and working means sweat, sweat means stinky -- NOT cool. What we've worked so hard to build over these ten years is this monster we play on stage. And we dare you to try and stop us, because we're not going to stop ourselves.
After ten years, we're naming our new album what we should have named our first one. It took us ten years to mature so that we could enjoy who we are and what we are doing, to realize that we don't have anything to lose if we offend, and to learn to just do what we are doing without feeling like we have to apologize for it. Along with us, the new generations of immigrants are overwhelming the the streets of the "developed" world. They are persecuted by the right, which hopes to explain its own poverty; and they are totally neglected by the left, because again: work, sweat -- not cool, doesn't get you laid. This is the class war, the only natural kind of war. Every other kind is an artifice of the system.
Anyway, we have a lot of fun.
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Member Since: 5/3/2005
Band Website: kulturshock.com
Band Members: Gino Srdjan Yevdjevic (Bosnia)- vocals, djumbek

Mario Butkovic (Croatia)- guitar, buzuki

Masa Kobayashi (Japan)- bass

Val Kiossovski (Bulgaria)- guitar, vocal

Chris Stromquist (USA)- drums

Matty Noble (USA)- violin

Influences: Buy our newest CD from CD Baby, or download it from :

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Record Label: Koolarrow Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Spring tour part 3- the conclusion...

...So, we left the balmy Italy, it's great food and crazy, party people and headed again up north, following the path of the roman legions through alpine passes and meadows full of fresh milk and gas ...
Posted by Kultur Shock on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:50:00 PST

...and the saga continues...Spring Tour part 2

Well, we left off leaving Slovenia and entering the cold and darkness of the north. And cold and darkness there was, cause our arrival signaled the forces of nature to reverse spring and send a beastl...
Posted by Kultur Shock on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:12:00 PST

EU spring tour 2008

Well, the spring tour just ended, we are back home trying to handle the jet lagg and to figure out what in the world just happened. In the meantime, we lost Gino in Amsterdam, rummor has it- the city ...
Posted by Kultur Shock on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:23:00 PST

new music that makes me laugh...

Man,it's been a while since I was having a smile on my face listening to a tune.Today in the car, I ran into "I don't wanna stop", the new Ozzy Osborne single and I started laughing out loud. Happy! B...
Posted by Kultur Shock on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:25:00 PST

New Videos Up

Hey Y'all We've posted 5 new videos from the summer tour, just in time for the winter European album release tour. Three from Art & Music in Pula, Croatia and Two from Esperanza in Beligium. Enjoy.
Posted by Kultur Shock on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:48:00 PST

Whar we ar5e listening to .3

Val: Man, I heard the new Tool album last night- holy shit, what a tone!!! Love that thing!
Posted by Kultur Shock on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:08:00 PST

Videos from Saturday Night

Hey All, our friend Olga has posted some great photos and video from the show on Saturday! Enjoy!http://www.myspace.com/olga08
Posted by Kultur Shock on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:55:00 PST

The New Record

Hey everybody, the new record is mixed and mastered! It sounds fucking amazing! We can't wait for you all to hear it and we can't wait to get on the road again. All we've got to do now is finalize ...
Posted by Kultur Shock on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:36:00 PST

What we are listening to .2

Val: I'm a mess. Lately I've been shamelessly bouncing between styles and influences- check this out: The Afghan Wigs, Guns'n Roses, Green Day, SOAD, Death Cab for Cutie, LCD Soundsystem, My Chemica...
Posted by Kultur Shock on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:02:00 PST

august EU blitz

We are back from a crazy week of travel, insane shows and a lots of fun. We've never done anything like that- in 4 consecutive days we played in Barcelona, Mallorka, Trutnov and Prag, running from air...
Posted by Kultur Shock on Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:44:00 PST