Balkan Beat Box is an Israeli-American music group currently based in New York City.
Ori Kaplan (formerly of Gogol Bordello), Tamir Muskat (formerly of Firewater) and frontman Tomer Yosef have been a part of NYC’S burgeoning Eastern European underground music scene for over a decade.
Equal parts Balkan-Mediterranean tradition, punk intensity, electronic cool, jazz discipline and hip-hop swagger, Balkan Beat Box truly creates a sound of their own. When they perform live, they create an explosive multi-cultural mashup that stirs audiences all over the world into one big sweat-drenched frenzy.
An inspired blend of international beats, deep pulsating rock, hipster world music flourish and spot-on-the-zeitgeist intelligent protest, Balkan Beat Box is an entirely new sound. “With every record we always want to surprise people and be ahead of the curve,” says band member Ori Kaplan. “The Balkan Beat Box sound is totally our own. There’s not even a name for it yet. We want to go way past trends and always go deeper and wider.”
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