Artist: Balkan Beat Box
Genre(s):
Breakbeat
Rock
Discography:
Nu Med
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Balkan Beat Box
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
With a chemical group of musicians rotating around the Israel-born New Yorkers Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat, Balkan Beat Box plays Mediterranean-influenced music that incorporates traditions from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and New York electronica. Both men had plentitude of experience playing in respective eclectic bands earlier starting BBB: saxophonist Kaplan came to the U.S. to play jazz just presently fell into the underground, immigrant-driven scene, draw up with Gogol Bordello and others, spell percussionist Muskat played in Firewater for a spell as well as flexing his production muscles (which he besides uses with BBB) in projects with Gogol Bordello among others. In 2005, with help from bassist Itamar Ziegler, trombonist Dana Leong, and MC/percussionist Tomer Yosef, the band released their self-titled album on Jdub Records, a label that focused on promoting Jewish music of all sorts. They before long became a fastness in the New York resistance, and Balkan Beat Box came out with their s full-length, Nu Med -- an record album that besides included contributions from guitar player Jeremiah Lockwood, trumpeter Ben Holmes, and saxist Peter Hess -- in 2007.
