Balkan Beat Box
A day with BALKAN BEAT BOX on LIBRA RADIO:
Thursday, 20. 10.2005
One hour show with BALKAN BEAT BOX
Thursday, 20. 10. 2005 at 23.00 (Central European Time)
Magical stage perfomance. You'll love them. It's inevitable. You'll love your newest personal discovery too. About yourself. About a gypsy soul inside your chest. Which describes you as a walking passion.
Israeli-born Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskrat are the minds behind this patched-together sonic masterpiece . The rooster cries, and the singers coo. The horns wail, and the rhythm section nails everything down. Balkan Beat Box" is like an Eastern Bloc party turned to 11 at 4:30 a.m. - only live and with musicians hailing from Turkey, Israel, Morocco, Bulgaria and Spain. Muskrat, who collaborated with Bloc-punks Gogol Bordello on "J.U.F.," ditches the gutter-punk stylings in favor of Arabic influences and Balkan percussive blasts - to surprisingly listenable results.
The pair's self-titled debut CD is a magnificent mash-up melding music from every conceivable corner of the globe and its history. French heavy-metal samples, Arabic lyrics, Bulgarian female vocals, electronic beats, kitchen utensils, even a language made up just for one song -- instead of gazing into the navels of other cultures, these melanges pull the whole weight of the world forward, always forward. The shows allegedly are lively productions with the band often performing in the middle of the audience.
Blending electronic music with hard-edged folk music from the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East, the exciting and internationally acclaimed collective Balkan Beat Box is out to prove that all the world is indeed a stage -- and that we are all gypsies.
Equally influenced by Boban Markovic, Rachid Taha, and Fanfare Ciocarlia as well as Manu Chao and Charlie Parker, Balkan Beat Box presents a wild mixture of styles and sounds.
You can buy their CD here and here (Europe).
Thursday, 20. 10.2005
One hour show with BALKAN BEAT BOX
Thursday, 20. 10. 2005 at 23.00 (Central European Time)
Magical stage perfomance. You'll love them. It's inevitable. You'll love your newest personal discovery too. About yourself. About a gypsy soul inside your chest. Which describes you as a walking passion.
Israeli-born Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskrat are the minds behind this patched-together sonic masterpiece . The rooster cries, and the singers coo. The horns wail, and the rhythm section nails everything down. Balkan Beat Box" is like an Eastern Bloc party turned to 11 at 4:30 a.m. - only live and with musicians hailing from Turkey, Israel, Morocco, Bulgaria and Spain. Muskrat, who collaborated with Bloc-punks Gogol Bordello on "J.U.F.," ditches the gutter-punk stylings in favor of Arabic influences and Balkan percussive blasts - to surprisingly listenable results.
The pair's self-titled debut CD is a magnificent mash-up melding music from every conceivable corner of the globe and its history. French heavy-metal samples, Arabic lyrics, Bulgarian female vocals, electronic beats, kitchen utensils, even a language made up just for one song -- instead of gazing into the navels of other cultures, these melanges pull the whole weight of the world forward, always forward. The shows allegedly are lively productions with the band often performing in the middle of the audience.
Blending electronic music with hard-edged folk music from the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East, the exciting and internationally acclaimed collective Balkan Beat Box is out to prove that all the world is indeed a stage -- and that we are all gypsies.
Equally influenced by Boban Markovic, Rachid Taha, and Fanfare Ciocarlia as well as Manu Chao and Charlie Parker, Balkan Beat Box presents a wild mixture of styles and sounds.
You can buy their CD here and here (Europe).
posted by O.marian at 12:55
