FEELGOOD FOLK Clarinet master Ismail Lumanovski (left) and Marco Peris, Inspector Gadje manager and drummer, are featured in ‘Balkancisco.’ (Photo courtesy of Balkcancisco) Once a week, in San ...

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Former Das Racist member Heems has been having a killer year, playing increasingly large venues (like Coachella) as one half of Swet Shop Boys, appearing on Your Old Droog’s debut LP Packs, and more.

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 ...

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 ...

Hip-hop — people think of it as a genre with the attention span of an ADD-afflicted teenager sipping a bottle of Mountain Dew. In a world where last summer’s hit can be considered old school, the ...

I usually blanch when I hear about a “world music” act that tries to put in at every port of call, but this New York group, led by a pair of polyethnic Israelis, does it right. Drummer Tamir Muskat ...

An insightful new book chronicles the rise and fall of a musical genre that for a time – for better or worse – became the ‘world’s window into Balkan identity’. For a while, Balkan folk was “the new ...

Balkan Beat Box have an awesome sound — sort of hip-hop meets big band meets reggae meets klezmer — and the video below, directed by award-winning animator Paul Griswold, is the first off their ...

The sound of Balkan Beat Box carries a faint reminder of the day the circus came to town, with dancing ladies and big trombones. But the dancers are belly dancers and the saxophones and brass recalls ...