Balkan Beat Box's highly anticipated new set, Blue Eyed Black Boy, is due out April 27 on Nat Geo Music. The album follows 2007's Nu Med. Blue Eyed Black Boy was recorded in Tel Aviv and Belgrade in ...

Brooklyn’s own Balkan Beat Box are kicking off a tour April 19th at Bowery Ballroom in NYC. They’ll be supporting their new record: The latest in Balkan-Gypsy-funky-electronica from Balkan Beat Box is ...

Imagine a klezmer band where the vocalists rap in English, chant in Arabic, and sing in Spanish and Serbian. That band is Balkan Beat Box, a group led by two Israelis — Ori Kaplan (saxophone) and ...

A fortunate by-product of the proliferation of folk music from around the world has been that a new generation of musicians has mastered playing traditional music in untraditional ways. New York City ...

If Arab club music, Israeli hip-hop and klezmer had a ménage à trios, its love child might sound something like Balkan Beat Box. Joining musical genres and artists across political spectrums the group ...

Better than: Having to fight for the right to party. Balkan Beat Box have made nearly a handful of fine records, but they’re no match for the power of the party band’s live show. It’s probably a ...

Balkan Beat Box often sounds like a cross between Matisyahu and a whacked-out DJ vibing in a black site somewhere in the Middle East. This is a good thing, by the way. The two New ...

For the past decade, Balkan Beat Box has forged a sound that attempts to bridge multiple musical worlds — from the organic to the technological, from the personally reflective to the globally ...

This whole gypsy-rock trend of the past few years still has legs, much to the surprise of anyone who thought it would disappear as quickly as the ’90s neo-swing movement. Maybe it’s because some of ...