“Wonderlust King” by Gogol Bordello

"Wonderlust King" was the only single Gogol Bordello pulled from Super Taranta!, their 2007 album on SideOneDummy, and the fourth of their career. Frontman Eugene Hütz wrote it, and the title is a deliberate slip of the tongue, wanderlust knocked sideways, which suits a Gypsy punk band that makes restlessness sound like a party. The band produced it with Victor van Vugt, who recorded it and mixed it alongside Hütz.

The video splices footage of Romani people in Ukraine's Carpaty region, lifted from the documentary The Pied Piper of Hützovina, with shots of Hütz on the Coney Island boardwalk and in front of a map, singing, playing guitar and jumping about. The song also shows up in the animated superhero series Creature Commandos, under a flashback to the origins of Doctor Phosphorus.

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