Super Taranta!

Super Taranta! is the fourth album by Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello. It was released on July 10, 2007 by SideOneDummy Records, produced by the band and Victor Van Vugt. The album charted in several countries, including reaching #67 in the UK and #115 on the US Billboard 200. "Wonderlust King" was released as the album's only single, in August 2007.

Reception

The album was ranked #14 on Rolling Stones list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007, and the track "Ultimate" was #82 on the magazine's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.
Super Taranta! has a score of 80/100 on the review aggregator Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Music critic Robert Christgau gave the album an A+ rating, calling Gogol Bordello "the world's most visionary band".

Production

Produced by Victor Van Vugt and Gogol Bordello
Recorded by Victor Van Vugt at Long View Farm Studios, March '07
Additional recordings done at Grace Studios, NY and Integrated Studios, NY, March/April '07
Assistant Engineers: Josh Sadlier-Brown, Integrated Studios and Ian Neil, Long View Farm Recording Studios
Mixed by Victor Van Vugt and Eugene Hütz at Grace Studios, NY
Mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge
Design by Cindy Heller
Photos by Bela Borsodi, Keetja Allard, Danny North, Liubov Kulkova, Herman Dahlgren, Thomas Gobena, and Eric James Crawford

Personnel

The Band

Eugene Hütz – vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion, fire buckets
Eliot Ferguson – drums, backing vocals
Thomas "Tommy T" Gobena – bass, backing vocals
Oren Kaplan – guitar, backing vocals
Sergey Ryabtsev – violin, backing vocals
Yuri Lemeshev – accordion, backing vocals
Pasha – accordion, backing vocals
Pamela Jintana Racine – percussion, backing vocals
Elizabeth Sun – percussion, backing vocals

Guests

Pedro Erazo – additional vocals on "Forces of Victory"
Piroshka Rac – additional vocals on "Suddenly... "
Slavic Soul Party – brass on "Zina-Marina" and "American Wedding"
*Ben Holmes – truba
*John Carlson – truba
*Jacob Garchik – baritone truba
*Curtis Hasselbring – trombone
*Matt Moran – bubanj

In popular culture

"American Wedding" is heard at the end of the Fargo episode "The Principle of Restricted Choice".
The song "Wonderlust King" is played in a sequence from animated superhero TV series Creature Commandos detailing the origins of character Doctor Phosphorus.