Kultur Shock

Kultur Shock is a Seattle-based folk punk band which specializes in mixing music like rock, metal and punk with traditional Balkan music.

Kultur Shock
Kultur Shock 2011
Background information
Origin	Seattle, Washington, United States
Genres	folk punk, Gypsy punk, folk metal, alternative metal
Years active	1996−present
Labels	Kultur Shock Records, Koolarrow Records
Members	Gino Srdjan Yevdjevich Val Kiossovski Matty Noble Chris Stromquist Guy Michael Davis Amy Denio
Past members	Mario Butkovic Paris Hurley Masa Kobayashi Nedim H. Hamzic Amir Beso Lazy Borislav Iochev Brad Houser Johnny Morovich Jessica Lurie Ambrose Nortness
Website	http://www.kulturshock.com/

Biography

Kultur Shock at Bumbershoot in 2007

Active since 1996, Kultur Shock combines Balkan folk music with punk, metal and art rock.^[1] Its members hail from Bosnia, Bulgaria, Indonesia, and the United States.^[2] The band has released 13 albums and had performed over 1,500 shows throughout the United States and Europe.^[3] Kultur Shock was signed to Bill Gould's KoolArrow record label from 2001 to 2006 and released three albums for the label: FUCC the INS, Kultura-Diktatura and We Came to Take Your Jobs Away.^[4] In 2006 the band formed its own label Kultur Shock Records and publishing company, Kultur Shock Music.^[5]

In 2011, the band attended the Motovun Film Festival along with Pips, Chips & Videoclips and performer Nick Cave.^[6]

In 2014, Kultur Shock released IX, their ninth album and sixth collaboration with engineer/producer Jack Endino.

The band defines itself as "a live band of blue-collar immigrants".^[7]

Current lineup

• Gino Srdjan Yevdjevich (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) – vocals, trumpet, tarabuka
• Val Kiossovski (Sofia, Bulgaria) – guitar, vocal
• Matty Noble (USA) – violin, vocals
• Chris Stromquist (Brooklyn, NY) – drums
• Guy Michael Davis (Jakarta, Indonesia) – bass
• Amy Denio (Detroit, Michigan) – clarinet, saxophone, vocals

Chris Stromquist

Chris Stromquist (born 5 March 1973) is an American drummer and member of Kultur Shock,^[8] the Brooklyn-based Balkan brass band Slavic Soul Party.^[9][10] and the New York avant-garde salsa band Zemog El Gallo Bueno.

Discography

• Live in Amerika (1999), Pacific Records
• FUCC the I.N.S. (2001), Koolarrow Records
• Kultura-Diktatura (2004), Koolarrow Records
• We Came to Take Your Jobs Away (2006), Koolarrow Records
• Live in Europe (2008), Kultur Shock Records
• Integration (2009), Kultur Shock Records
• Ministry of Kultur (2011), Kultur Shock Records
• Tales of Grandpa Guru, Vol. 1 (2012), Kultur Shock Records
• IX (2014), Kultur Shock Records
• Live at Home (2015), Kultur Shock Records
• Tales of the Two Gurus, Vol. 2 (2016), Kultur Shock Records (with Edo Maajka)
• D.R.E.A.M (2019)^[11]
• Kultur Shock: Acoustic Live (2023)