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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0893209001066 Label: Jdub Records Manufacturer: Jdub Records MPN: 106 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Jdub Records Release Date: May 15, 2007 Studio: Jdub Records Editorial Review: Amazon.com: It seems impossible to avoid the fusion and clash of cultures in world music these days. Connectivity means it's all within your (everyone else's) reach. Here on their second album, Nu Med, Balkan Beat Box continue to play at the nexus of Eastern European, klezmer, Arabic, hip-hop, rock and electronic music. Headed by Israelis Tamir Muskat (drums, programming) and Ori Kaplan (saxophone), the band's sound is far from forced, easily summing up the musicians' lives in their homeland as well as their current experiences living in New York City. As with all great folk songs, the melodies are insistently catchy enough to get listeners to sing or hum along before the song ends. Highlights include the Saharan dancehall cut "Digital Monkey," the insistent "bbbeat," and the Dead Sea surf guitar sound of "Joro Boro," which features singer Dessislava Stefanova. Like the first album, this one is as fun as it is far reaching. --Tad Hendrickson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The madonnas of Turkish shlock rockAre these bad boys of eurotrash lounge the inevitable grand tumor of scenester rock or just a really bad joke that got taken seriously? Seriously, much of the disc mixes the dying howls of a cat in the clutches of a crocodile with DJ bleeps, dancehall grunts and other trivial sound trinkets. It's a pretty package with nothing going on underneath the plastic wrapper. Beirut these cats ain't. Mostly, BBB is annoying more for the intense boredom it breeds. My ears felt like prisoners at Gitmo during ... Read More Rating:  - Music that fills the house with life!This musical CD makes it difficult to stay still. It is an interesting combination of music styles that brings back memories of Klezmer updated with a driving, exciting modern beat. This is my second Balkan Beat Box CD, and I really enjoy the liveliness and quality of their music, as well as the middle eastern and Israeli flavor of their passionate sound. Rating: - Great stuff!!!These guys are a lively mix of Middle Eastern, Klezmer, and hip hop styles. This is very fun stuff, very different. I'm turning people on to this CD everywhere I go and I get very enthusiastic response. Bonus: Their politics and style of mixing Israeli and Arabic musical traditions and vocals gives us hope for a better world. Rating: - No complaintsCD was in perfect condition. Took a little longer to arrive than I'd expected but this may not be the fault of the vendor. Rating: - New "med!"Just look at the camels parachuting into a striped desert. Who wouldn't want to listen to what's inside? Well, hopefully lots of people will. East European fusion music is moderately hot right now, with bands like Beirut and Gogol Bordello on the rise. But one of the best ones is Balkan Beat Box, whose second album "Nu Med" further polishes their ethnic hip-hop/rock sound -- it's just a thoroughly colourful, flavourful album. It opens with a deliciously funky "Keep it Straight," ... Read More |
