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- Original Release Date: 1 Jan 2005
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
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| 1. Cha Cha | 4:10 | Not Available | |||
| 2. Bulgarian Chicks (feat. Vlada Tomova & Kristin Espeland) | 5:52 | Not Available | |||
| 3. Adir Adirim (feat. Victoria Hanna) | 5:19 | Not Available | |||
| 4. 9/4 the Ladies | 4:03 | Not Available | |||
| 5. Shushan (feat. Shushan) | 4:42 | Not Available | |||
| 6. Ya Man | 3:35 | Not Available | |||
| 7. Gross (feat. Boom Pam) | 6:09 | Not Available | |||
| 8. Sunday Arak (feat. Dana Leong) | 5:07 | Not Available | |||
| 9. Hassan's Mimuna (feat. Hassan Ben Jaffar and Har'el Shachal) | 5:35 | Not Available | |||
| 10. Meboli (feat. Vlada Tomova) | 3:53 | Not Available | |||
| 11. La Bush Resistance (feat. Tomer Yosef and Amir Shahasar) | 4:25 | Not Available |
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Not every album kicks off with a rooster crowing. But then, not every band is brave enough for some quirky folk/hip-hop as their main sound.
Much like their sister band Gogol Bordello, Balkan Beat Box creates a funky mishmash of cultural influences. But their music ends up sounding like a gypsy electronica musician who just got back from a Middle-Eastern tour. Yup, it's really as wild as it sounds.
It kicks off with the most infectious song on the album, "Cha Cha," which commands you "dance!" before the beat kicks in -- deliciously funky and danceable. It's followed by the glorious "Bulgarian Chicks," which has Vlada Tomova & Kristin Espeland singing merrily over trumpets and dancey beats.
Then they take a detour out of folkland, with dark hip-hop, Middle Eastern wails, sultry European saxophones, and delightfully raucous blasts of Eastern-European rock'n'roll, with chants interspersing blasts of grimy guitar. It ends on a surprisingly low-key note, with the hypnotic beats of "La Bush Resistance," with Tomer Yosef and Amir Shahasar chanting over it all.
If you had to describe Balkan Beat Box, then it would probably be Middle-Eastern/Jewish/gypsy beatbox/rock/electrofolk. If there's a name for fusion music like that, I'd love to hear of it, because it would probably be as entertainingly colourful as the music itself.
Balkan Beat Box's strongest point is its instrumentation -- we've got the usual instruments, but they're almost smothered in a thick layer of woodwinds, trombones, trumpets, sax and electronic programming here and there. And the musical styles are flexible -- we've got the jagged hip-hop right next to slithering Mid-East beats and bouncy Eastern European stuff.
The vocals per se aren't really provided by the official band, but by a long list of vocalists who sort of chip in on one song each. This can be a little confusing at times, especially since none of them really sound like each other, but it does add to the raucously unexpected sound of the album.
If anybody is completely sick of prepackaged, flavourless pop music, then they should check out Balkan Beat Box. Colourful, energetic and thoroughly entertaining.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I originally bought the Radio 3 2007 World Music Awards and it contained the song 'Cha Cha' by the Balkan Beat Box. I liked the track so much I ordered the album and I was definitely not disappointed. Several of my friends have listened and loved it also - although my 22 year old niece thought it was wierd.
The style is adequately described in the other reviews so I won't repeat. I have played it several times and enjoy it more each time. (BTW, The Radio 3 WMA album is also a brilliant album).
The style is adequately described in the other reviews so I won't repeat. I have played it several times and enjoy it more each time. (BTW, The Radio 3 WMA album is also a brilliant album).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Sultry and hypnotic horns blend with an almost surf-style guitar mixing Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Israeli and Eastern European influences with a heavy dance beat; and it works really well! Balkan Beat Box sucessfully manage to mix everything together as if it was always meant to be that way.
The Bulgarian Chicks are terrific and Victoria Hanna's vocals on Adir Adirim are fantastic and 9/4 for the Ladies is a brilliant dance track. This is an album you'll listen to over and over again. And their second album, Nu Med, is even better.
The Bulgarian Chicks are terrific and Victoria Hanna's vocals on Adir Adirim are fantastic and 9/4 for the Ladies is a brilliant dance track. This is an album you'll listen to over and over again. And their second album, Nu Med, is even better.
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