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 ...

What happens when music is created inside of one reality—and released to people facing another? Israeli funk trio Balkan Beat Box is experiencing that question in real time. The band’s sixth album, ...

The word Balkan evokes Balkanization — the division of an organized entity into several, small units that generally act unfriendly towards each other. That’s one reason why the name Balkan Beat Box is ...

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The penultimate song on “Give,” Balkan Beat Box’s new album, is poignantly titled “Enemy in Economy.” This light and humorous song mocks the varying suspicions that Americans harbor toward ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can you create dance music that gets the floor moving using only brass instruments? For over 100 years, Balkan brass has been ...

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 ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Listen 7:20 Balkan Beat Box describes ...

July 21: Brooklyn’s Balkan Beat Box traffics in high-powered world music. On its latest album, “Blue Eyed Black Boy,” B.B.B. (comprising the percussionist, programmer, producer, and erstwhile ...