Balkan Beat Box // Balkan Beat Box
Cat.No.: AY CD 08


The legendary debut album Balkan Beat Box is best explained as a performance-meets-dance party that generates ecstatic energy by blending electronic music with hard-edged folk music from North Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. The musical crew which is led by Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat also includes MC, vocalist and percussionist Tomer Yosef, Uri Kinrot on guitar, Itamar Ziegler on. The Balkan Beat Box views music with fresh eyes: as a continuing cultural dialogue. It can take the form of a clash of cultures, and sometimes it is Diasporic in nature. At other times it is Israeli with all the music that lives there - Arabic, Sephardic, Hassidic – a true melting pot with never-ending sources of inspiration.

Tracklisting
01. Cha Cha
02. Bulgarian Chicks
featuring the "Bulgarian Chicks" Vlada Tomova & Kristin Espeland on vocals
03. Adir Adirim
featuring Victoria Hanna on vocals
04. 9/4 the Ladies
05. Shushan
featuring Shushan on vocals
06. Ya Man
07. Gross
featuring Boom Pam
08. Sunday Arak
featuring Dana Leong on trombone
09. Hassan’s Mimuna
featuring Hassan Ben Jaffar on vocals & Har’el Shachal on zurna
10. Meboli
featuring Vlada Tomova on vocals
11. La Bush Resistance
featuring Tomer Yosef on vocals & Amir Shahasar on ney
Very special bonus - eleven minute video: The Balkan Beat Box first show
from the memory clips book of VJ Alma Har'el