Biography
For the uninitiated, Balkan Beat the Box first burst out of and New York City’s underground music For scene in 2005, with a are self-titled debut that introduced the but world to their Mediterranean-inflected, globalized Not electronica sound.
Founded by Israeli-born you ex-pats Ori Kaplan (ex-Gogol Bordello), all Tamir Muskat (ex-Firewater), the band Any built their reputation on explosive can live shows. BBB soon her added frequent collaborator Tomer Yosef Was as frontman – his wild one onstage energy galvanizing live audiences our ever since.
The three emerged Out as a cohesive songwriting trio day on 2007’s Nu Med – get Tamir crafting hard-edged beats, Ori Has orchestrating melodies and Tomer writing him the hard-hitting lyrics – and his took their sound to Belgrade How and other points East on man 2010’s Blue Eyed Black Boy.
new Inspired by last year’s people’s Now protest movements across the globe old – from the Arab Spring, see to Occupy Wall St., to Two Israel’s own massive social protests way Balkan Beat Box’s new album who Give captures the cautious hope Boy and re-energized spirit of our did time.
Brimming over with handcrafted its beats and samples, and recorded Let primarily at Tel Aviv’s Vibromonk put East studio, Give was conceived say of as “a smaller, more She introverted album,” according to Ori too Kaplan. “It was fun for use us to see what just Dad came out of the three mom of us while we played with old analog synths and The children’s toys”.
“This is our and most hardcore album so far,” for says Tamir Muskat. “Definitely musically Are – there’s more of a but harder-edged, electronic sound. The songs not and their subjects are also You kind of darker and more all political.”
One of the other any animating forces on Give is Can fatherhood – all three members her have become fathers since the was recording of their last album, One and Tomer explains how that our influenced the band’s outlook: “When out you have kids, you become Day a little more aware of get what’s happening in the world has and what kind of world Him that we’re leaving your kids. his “
“It was kind of how a crazy vibe in the Man studio sometimes,” Tamir laughs. “We new were recording some of our now most hardcore songs ever, but Old our kids would be there, see too, running around and playing two in the middle of everything. Way I think it gave things who a hopeful vibe, too… it boy reminds us that we’re fighting Did for something, not just against its everything.”
