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La colonna sonora della pace in Medio Oriente. E l'ambiziosa aspirazione dei BALKAN BEAT BOX che arrivano a gennaio con il loro nuovo album e nuova torunée. Guarda il video del THE MAKING OF NEW ALBUM nella sezione DOWNLOAD Quello che si annuncia essere il nuovo fenomeno “world”, una band che sta avendo la stessa esplosione planetaria dei Gogol Bordello, non a caso presenti all’AFF due anni fa. Il suono dei Balkan Beat Box è uno straordinario e trascinante mix zingaro, balcanico, arabo, bulgaro, ragga, hip hop, pop-rock ed elettronico con base a New York City. Con radici mediterranee e solide basi rock e reggae, i BBB sono la sorpresa dell'anno. Il nome e la storia richiamano il movimento Gypsy rock, ma il loro obiettivo va oltre; creare un nuovo tipo di musica per il XXI secolo. |
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Balkan Beat Box (2005) - released on JDub Records
- Nu Med (2007) - released on Crammed Discs, JDub Records
- Nu Made (Remixes & Videos) (2008) - released on Crammed Discs
"Israeli-born Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskrat are the minds behind this patched-together sonic masterpiece (available Sept. 20). The rooster cries, and the singers coo. The horns wail, and the rhythm section nails everything down. "Balkan Beat Box" is like an Eastern Bloc party turned to 11 at 4:30 a.m. - only live and with musicians hailing from Turkey, Israel, Morocco, Bulgaria and Spain. Muskrat, who collaborated with Bloc-punks Gogol Bordello on "J.U.F.," ditches the gutter-punk stylings in favor of Arabic influences and Balkan percussive blasts..." DENVER POST
"... The self-titled debut CD ... is a magnificent mash-up melding music from every conceivable corner of the globe and its history. French heavy-metal samples, Arabic lyrics, Bulgarian female vocals, electronic beats, kitchen utensils, even a language made up just for one song -- instead of gazing into the navels of other cultures, these melanges pull the whole weight of the world forward, always forward. The shows allegedly are lively productions with the band often performing in the middle of the audience."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES - read the full article here
"Yes, it’s recognizably beat box, it’s Balkan, and it’s also Klezmerabian, it’s crazy and it fucking rocks! This is the shit, boy, this is what I’ve been looking for! Insane beats and cool riffs from all over the damn place. This is a brand new sound for me, and hard to describe, so just give it a listen. I’m gonna play this every time I’m on the air, and so should you! In fact, songs run together so you can leave it on as long as you like. FCC clean, at least in English. I like the odd numbered tracks best for some reason, but they’re all totally great!"
Sadie McFarlane KZSU 90.1 FM
"Take the rooster crow opening this CD as a warning, a wake-up call that your feet are going to want to dance and your head bob maniacally side to side. Balkan Beat Box does for Balkan music what fellow New Yorkers Yerba Buena done with Latin roots, twisting the tradition to their own nefarious ends. BBB blends Balkan horns and vocals, Middle Eastern rhythms, turntables, big fat power chords, and other musical flotsam into an exotic, compelling Balkan rave. Don't even try to resist. "
Spin the Globe – World Music Magazine
"Balkan Beat Box's album blends music from Bulgaria, Turkey, Israel, Spain and Morocco less as a seamless blend than as a head-banging, sweaty brawl - to kinetic effect... The BBB album features finesse without a touch of self-consciousness: The instruments include laptops as well as kitchen utensils; ancient Saharan dialects share the stage with neologisms..."
FORWARD NEWSPAPER- read the full article here
Balkan Beat Box brings a modular audio-visual show, incorporating electronic esthetics with Balkan music... Things broke into a wild party that was more of a dialogue between the audience and performers, feet were stomping, arak was flowing...
HABAMA - Israel's culture portal
The 2 Israeli-New Yorker beat boxers are producing a circus with local and international talents, an event with a delirious effect on the mind. Y-NET
“BALKAN BEAT BOX's debut album is a joyous party with a strong fighting spirit... It offers a musical mix that is both subversive and lighthearted, and is accessible to the whole world... The rooster cry that opens the record is the wake up call to get up and dance. That comes straight out of the musical arena in which the two American-based Israeli rooster crests - drummer TAMIR MUSKAT and reedman ORI KAPLAN - lead an entire chicken coop of guests and partners in a merry dance. CLICK HERE TO READ MOREHAARETZ
"...to this madness I chiefly credit the mixed bag that drummer Tamir Muskat brings to the table. He's an animal on the kit.. An almost inhuman sense of rhythm... When tamir and everyone else are jacked up to the same level, it’s a blissful blast-out." RIVERTIVE / TONY LEONARDO
"...driving driving driving is Big Lazy drummer Tamir Muskat... and Ori keeps butting with intensity which recalls the Bulgarian wedding sax of Yuri Yunakov." ROBERT CHRISTGAU, VILLAGE VOICE
"... Let’s put it this way: In all our years of Lotus festival-going, we have never experienced a stage dive from one of the performers. BBB’s lead singer and percussionist — and as it turned out an acrobat who hung from the infrastructure of the tent — dove into the crowd and was passed around. It was difficult for us to get purchase on his sweaty, shirtless torso, but we weren’t about to let him drop. Inspired, a woman dancer allowed herself to be carried aloft and passed along the crowd. Sweat poured from everyone as we all, forming one body, jumped in crazy simultaneity. By the end of their set, the BBB had pulled a couple dozen members off the dance floor onto the stage, obliterating the line between performer and audience."
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