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Balkan Beat Box are an intoxicating combination of performance, Dance- and World-infused electronic Music with live musicians from Israel, Morocco, and even Iran with DJ's, Flamenco dancers, Belly dancers, and a VJ, mixing the ecstatic sounds and sights of the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Have a look at their 11-minute video which is included on CD: the Balkan Beat Box first show.

The Balkan Beat Box views music with fresh eyes: as a continuing cultural dialogue. It can take the form of a clash of cultures, and sometimes it is Diasporic in nature. At other times it is Israeli with all the music that lives there - Arabic, Sephardic, Hassidic – a true melting pot with never-ending sources of inspiration. The Balkan Beat Box performs regularly in Israel, where it receives rave reviews and a tremendous audience reaction. This summer BBB presented their music in some of the biggest Festivals in EU and N. America and received a wild reaction and standing ovations.

Balkan Beat Box is best explained as a performance-meets-dance party that generates ecstatic energy by blending electronic music with hard-edged folk music from North Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Their festive evenings also feature colourful costumes and bedecked performers dancing and performing throughout the party. The musical crew which is led by Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat also includes MC, vocalist and percussionist Tomer Yosef, Uri Kinrot on guitar, Itamar Ziegler on bass and special guests the Bulgarian Chicks, Hassan Ben Jaffar, Victoria Hanna, belly dancers, flamenco dancers and more!

"Balkan Beat Box came to us as a natural reaction to our surroundings. As musicians - Ori on the horns and Tamir on the drums - we always try to reach the extreme ends of our instruments. As DJs, we crave the same balance. The hard core, the revolutionary on the one hand and the de.......
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Kolejna fantastyczna pozycja z osławionego Essay Recordings, bezsprzecznie najważniejszej w tej chwili oficyny łączącej muzykę etniczną (głównie bałkański folk, muzykę Romów) z nowoczesnymi, tanecznymi brzmieniami. Obsypane światowymi nagrodami nagrania Shantel Bucovina Club czy kapitalne albumy Senora Coconuta to nie jedyne znakomite pozycje w ich katalogu. Balkan Beat Box z ostatnich wydawnictw Essay ma szansę stać się światowym bestsellerem. Założony przez urodzonego Tel Avivie Ori Kaplana Balkan Beat Box to wysokoenergetyczny miks tanecznego ognia i jeszcze bardziej ognistej zbitki muzyki klezmerskiej, cygańskiego folku i punk rocka. Nieokiełznany żywioł tych nagrań doskonale obrazuje multimedialny plik z fragmentami występu na żywo. Absolutny hit nie tylko dla fanów World Music!!



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Balkan Beat Box are an intoxicating combination of performance, Dance- and World-infused electronic Music with live musicians from Israel, Morocco, and even Iran with DJ's, Flamenco dancers, Belly dancers, and a VJ, mixing the ecstatic sounds and sights of the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Have a look at their 11-minute video which is included on CD: the Balkan Beat Box first show.



The Balkan Beat Box views music with fresh eyes: as a continuing cultural dialogue. It can take the form of a clash of cultures, and sometimes it is Diasporic in nature. At other times it is Israeli with all the music that lives there - Arabic, Sephardic, Hassidic – a true melting pot with never-ending sources of inspiration. The Balkan Beat Box performs regularly in Israel, where it receives rave reviews and a tremendous audience reaction. This summer BBB presented their music in some of the biggest Festivals in EU and N. America and received a wild reaction and standing ovations.



Balkan Beat Box is best explained as a performance-meets-dance par.......
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