Balkan Beat Box - s/t

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!!

Editor's info:

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 deeply rooted traditional, the ancient voice on the other - the one that took a thousand years to brew. We dig to our ancestral roots often, but we also pursue dialog and new ways to define our music, whether it?s infused with a Jewish, Mediterranean, Balkan, or New York City influence." Ori Kaplan, Tamir Muskat

Balkan Beat Box was formed in 2003 and is spearheaded by Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat. Tamir and Ori have been active for a decade in NYC's premier underground bands like Firewater, Gogol Bordello, Big Lazy, Shot'nez and DJing around the world and touring with the Balkan Beat Box extravaganza. Tamir Muskat grew up with Romanian and African music in the house. Ori Kaplan grew up playing Klezmer clarinet in Jaffa. Both were playing in the NY scene with various downtown bands for more then a decade. Ori studied with Yuri Yunakov - the king of Bulgarian gypsy sax player and played and toured with Gogol Bordello, Firewater, Shot'nez extensively around the globe. Tamir produced some of Gogol Bordello's, Firewater, JUF, and Big Lazy most memorable music and toured the world extensively. The Balkan Beat Box is a natural progression of their Diaspora experience. Keeping the spirit of extremes and juxtapositions, BBB is coming back to draw from the source.


Tracklista:

1 Cha Cha
2 Bulgarian Chicks
3 Adir Adirim
4 9/4 The Ladies
5 Shushan
6 Ya Man
7 Gross    
8 Sunday Arak    
9 Hassan's Mimuna    
10 Meboli    
11 La Bush Resistance


Video Bonus:
The Balkan Beat Box First Show

http://www.balkanbeatbox.com/

http://www.myspace.com/balkanbeatbox

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