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In contrast to the well crafted Slavic Soul Party release, this Balkan Beat Box offering is over the top. They are just trying too hard. First they have more guests than original members on the session (including two horn men from Slavic Soul Party), making you wonder just how good they are on their own. Then they manage to get everything but the kitchen sink in here: too many samples, too much horrible rapping. They pride themselves on including musical influences from all over the Mediterranean, but you don't really need to hear all of them simultaneously in every song. Apparently their live show is something of a circus act and you get that vertiginous swanee-whistle craziness running through this disc. Yes, levity and humour are one response to tragedy but this band is not going to march around Israel and make the walls come tumbling down. A noble idea: good lucking putting it into practice. So there are moments of musical sophistication, enough to make me want to like it, but it's hard to hear the good parts when they are constantly interrupted by mad rappers and gratuitous overdubbed effects. This is too frantic to enjoy. 05/01/07 >> go there
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