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 ...

Known for Mediterranean-electronic fusion music, and lyrics infused with personal and political meaning, Balkan Beat Box is a staple in the hip Israeli music scene. A year after the release of “Shout ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center Fans will be pleased about a first-time collaboration between ...

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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 ...

NEW YORK (AFP) — 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 ...

If Arab club music, Israeli hip-hop and klezmer had a ménage à trios, its love child might sound something like Balkan Beat Box. Joining musical genres and artists across political spectrums the group ...

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 ...

The cover for Balkan Beat Box’s newest album, “Give,” features a subtle visual portmanteau of a megaphone and an assault rifle. It’s an image that takes a little while to sink in, but it ultimately ...

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