Kultur Shock is a Seattle-based gypsy punk band which specializes in mixing music like rock, metal and punk with traditional Balkan music. Biography Active since 1996, Kultur Shock combines Balkan folk music with punk, metal and art rock. Its members hail from Bosnia, Bulgaria, and the United States. The band has issued as many as 11 albums and had performed over 1,500 shows throughout the United States and Europe. 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. In 2006 the band formed its own label Kultur Shock Records and publishing company, Kultur Shock Music. In 2011, the band had attended Motovun Film Festival along with Pips, Chips & Videoclips band and performer Nick Cave. 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". 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 (5 March 1973) is an American drummer and member of Kultur Shock, the Brooklyn Balkan brass band Slavic Soul Party. and the New York avante-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) References External links Official Web Site Band's page on Koolarrow Records site Kultur Shock, Osijek (5.12.2009.) - photo gallery Kultur Shock at Maymunarnika (09.08.2016) - Photo gallery "Kultur Shock – Artisti — MTV Hrvatska accessdate=2013-08-25. Chris Stromquist links "Chris Stromquist @ARTISTdirect" accessdate=2013-08-25 Chris Stromquist Discography and Music at CD Universe accessdate=2013-08-25 Gypsy punk groups Musical groups established in 1996 Musical groups from Seattle Punk rock groups from Washington