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| Balkan Beat Box performs an inspired
madness
that
crosses multi-cultural
circus
with non-stop
dance party. Israeli
bandmates Ori
Kaplan (Gogol Bordello) and Tamir Muskat (Jewish
Ukrainian Freundschaft)
lead fellow expatriates
Itamar
Zieglar, Dana Leong and Vocalist
Tomer Yosef through an infectious
mish-mosh
of hip hop, reggae and Slavic sounds, infused with Mediterraneam, Balkan,
and
Jewish
influences.
The
band is part of the NYC musical underground
that
includes the bands Big
Lazy, Pink Nose, Firewater, JUF, Gogl Bordello and Shotnez.
Its full
horn section, dj beats, percussion and video projections come together
for a surreal atmosphre that's part Gypsy caravan, part performance-art
collective, Balkan Beat Box is a south European cross-cultural
experience that has evolved into a non-stop
dance party. Golem's raw material lies in Yiddish theater songbooks, shtetls and bandleader Annette Ezekiel's field recordings from Lower East Side locales like bagel shops staffed by Turkmen Jews. She reconstructs these songs much the same as the 16th-century legend of the MAHARAL of Prague. who fashioned a golem monster out of clay. |
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