Balkan Beat Box, a trio formed by Gogol Bordello’s Ori Kaplan and Firewater’s Tamir Muskat, has been doing strange things with Mediterranean styles and electronic sounds for over a decade. A ...

Balkan Beat Box. Balkan Beat Box. BY David Dacks Published Oct 1, 2005. ... The churning low tones of "Shushan are punctuated by Kaplan s sickly modulated and slurred saxophone contributions.

That band is Balkan Beat Box, a group led by two Israelis — Ori Kaplan (saxophone) and Tamir Muskat (drums) — who merge traditional Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and Eastern European sounds ...

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 ...