Balkan Beat Box
| Balkan Beat Box | |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | World music , klezmer , jazz , " gypsy punk ", dub , hip-hop , dancehall |
| founding | 2003 |
| Website | www.balkanbeatbox.com |
| Founding members | |
| Ori Kaplan | |
| Tamir nutmeg | |
singing |
Tomer Yosef |
| Current occupation | |
| Ori Kaplan | |
| Tamir nutmeg | |
| Tomer Yosef | |
| Itamar Ziegler | |
| Jeremiah Lockwood | |
| Eyal Talmudi | |
| Peter Hess | |
| Dana Leong | |
| Ben Handler | |
| Uri Kinrot | |
Balkan Beat Box is a world music group founded by Ori Kaplan , Tamir Muskat and Tomer Yosef .
History and style
Co-founders Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat both grew up in Israel , but first met in Brooklyn . Both grew up with music. Kaplan was a klezmer clarinetist and played with Gogol Bordello , among others , while Muskat was the drummer of a punk band . The two developed their very own style by combining the musical sounds of Jewish klezmer, sounds of the Mediterranean and Balkans with hip-hop and dancehall beats. The group is heavily influenced by Jamaican dub , with other influences in their mixed musical form. The goals of Balkan Beat Box were to merge old and traditional musical traditions with those of the hiphops in order to create a new form of music that can be used to appeal to the visitors of clubs or discos . Balkan Beat Box understand their music as an attempt to support peace and international understanding.
The first album Balkan Beat Box was released in 2005 on Shantels Essay Recordings . In 2007 the second album followed with the title Nu-Med . Both albums received worldwide attention. While the first album focuses more on Mediterranean sounds, the second album contains more Arabic and Spanish influences.
The band names Boban Marković , Rachid Taha , Fanfare Ciocărlia , Manu Chao and Charlie Parker as influencers of their music.
About Uri Kinrot and Tomer Yosef also relations with the Israeli consist Klezmer - rock band Boom Pam , who - just publish at Essay Recordings in Frankfurt - as Balkan Beat Box on their first album.
Her song Hermetico was sampled by Jason Derulo for the song Talk Dirty .
Discography
- Balkan Beat Box (2005)
- Nu Med (2007)
- Nu Made (Remixes & Videos) (2008)
- Blue Eyed Black Boy (2010)
- Give (2012)
- Shout It Out (2016)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2007/08/new-world-music?page=0 ( Memento from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://expressnightout.com/content/2007/04/zion_lions_balkan_beat_box.php
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
