Balkan Beat Box's highly anticipated new set, Blue Eyed Black Boy, is due out April 27 on Nat Geo Music. The album follows 2007's Nu Med. Blue Eyed Black Boy was recorded in Tel Aviv and Belgrade in ...

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The core members of Balkan Beat Box, reedist Ori Kaplan and drummer Tamir Muskat, are regulars on the polyglot New York underground scene that’s best known for spawning Gogol Bordello. In fact Kaplan ...

Balkan Beat Box describes its sound as "globalized urban mash-ups," with brass bands, wedding organs and a rooster's crow all finding a place in their recordings. Although the three band members were ...

Imagine a klezmer band where the vocalists rap in English, chant in Arabic, and sing in Spanish and Serbian. That band is Balkan Beat Box, a group led by two Israelis — Ori Kaplan (saxophone) and ...

The penultimate song on “Give,” Balkan Beat Box’s new album, is poignantly titled “Enemy in Economy.” This light and humorous song mocks the varying suspicions that Americans harbor toward ...

It’s 3 p.m. on a foggy August day at San Francisco’s Outside Lands music festival, but inside the Heineken Dome it feels like an after-hours party. Ori Kaplan, a founding member of the contagiously ...

Better than: Having to fight for the right to party. Balkan Beat Box have made nearly a handful of fine records, but they’re no match for the power of the party band’s live show. It’s probably a ...

When Balkan Beat Box set out to record its latest album, the genre-defying Israeli band went into a studio and jammed just to see what it would come up with. "It was almost like creating our dream ...

Who: Balkan Beat BoxWhere: State Farm StageWhen: 7:30 p.m.The last time a clarinet got invited to a party it was circa Miles Davis, and things were different back then. Balkan Beat Box’s name says it ...

But Tamir Muskat, Orin Kaplan and Tomer Yosef were in fact joined by Itamar Ziegler on bass, Uri Kinrot on guitar and Eyal Talmudi on sax and clarinet. Their first number, “Move It”, set the tone for ...

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