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 ...

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 ...

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.