Balkan Beat Box
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Discipline:
Music
Music
Artist(s):
Balkan Beat Box
Producing Partner(s):
When:
March 1, 2008
at
20:00
Where:
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, University of British Columbia
6265 Crescent Road
Vancouver, British Columbia
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, University of British Columbia
6265 Crescent Road
Vancouver, British Columbia
Described as “a magnificent mash-up melding music
from every conceivable corner of the globe.” (
Chicago Sun Times)
, the Balkan Beat Box (BBB) is situated at the crossroads of
both genre and geography. Well known for their energetic and
unpredictable live shows,
the eight-member group interweaves the organic
sounds of artists from Israel, Turkey, Spain, Morocco and Bulgaria
with electronic dancehall grooves, creating a unique sound that
defies categorization. Using instruments ranging from brass horns
to laptops and kitchen utensils, the group brings the soul of the
Mediterranean to the next generation, transporting old roots into a
danceable 21st century dimension that may come to define the new
global sound
in this Chutzpah! Festival/ Chan Centre
co-presentation.
BBB is Tamir Muskat and Ori Kaplan, joined with gifted
musicians/composers Itamar Ziegler, Dana Leong, Tomer Yosef and
other greats. Muskat and Kaplan have both been part of the
burgeoning Eastern European underground music scene in New York
City for over a decade, performing in bands such as Gogol Bordello,
Firewater and Big Lazy.
BBB is a natural reaction of musicians who want to erase
political borders on the dance floors from New York to the Middle
East, from Berlin to Macedonia, from Bloomington, Indiana to Tokyo
to Jerusalem to San Francisco to Bordeaux and Brussels. People are
listening and moving to the new BBB sound.
The group makes connections that politics often keep separate: Jewish, Gypsy, Arabic and American are united by hip hop beats and dancehall toasts. BBB’s musical hitchhiking continues as they mix things up with dub and electronics, juxtaposed with ancient Moroccan and Mediterranean melodies. The band’s uncategorizable sound gives equal weight to soulful acoustic timbres and digital rhythms, creating a uniquely organic sound with electronic elements. sound gives equal weight to soulful acoustic timbres and digital rhythms, creating a uniquely organic sound with electronic elements.
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