Ori Kaplan
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United States
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in 1991. He has worked with Tom Abbs
Tom Abbs
Tom Abbs is an American multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker. He works primarily in the fields of jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation, and plays double bass, tuba, cello, violin, didgeridoo, and wooden flute, often playing several of these instruments simultaneously.Originally from Washington...
and the Balkan Beat Box
Balkan Beat Box
Balkan Beat Box is an Israeli musical group founded by Tamir Muskat, Ori Kaplan of Firewater and Big Lazy, and Tomer Yosef . As a musical project they often cooperate with a host of other musicians both in the studio as well as live...
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Career
The first band that Kaplan played for was DXM, an underground sampler-driven group in Tel AvivTel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
. He chose playing for DXM instead of taking clarinet
Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
lessons.
He stayed in Israel until 1991, which is when he immigrated to the U.S. After getting a degree from Mannes College in 1996, Kaplan formed a group with Tom Abbs
Tom Abbs
Tom Abbs is an American multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker. He works primarily in the fields of jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation, and plays double bass, tuba, cello, violin, didgeridoo, and wooden flute, often playing several of these instruments simultaneously.Originally from Washington...
and Geoff Mann called "Trio Plus". The Trio became a quartet
Quartet
In music, a quartet is a method of instrumentation , used to perform a musical composition, and consisting of four parts.-Western art music:...
in 1997 when Steve Swell joined.
In the same year, Kaplan also joined a lot of jazz projects related to the Knitting Factory
Knitting Factory
The Knitting Factory is a music venue and concert house with locations in Brooklyn, Boise, Reno, and Spokane. The club originally specialized in jazz and experimental music and has expanded to showcasing all genres of music, performing arts and comedy....
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Kaplan joined the rock band Firewater in 1998 and toured both the U.S. and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. He also formed his "Ori Kaplan Percussion Ensemble", with Susie Ibarra, Geoff Mann, and Andrew Bemkey.
He joined the band Gogol Bordello
Gogol Bordello
Gogol Bordello is a Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring.Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music...
after having seen them play the Lower East Side and toured with them extensively from 2001-2004. In 2004 he formed Balkan Beat Box
Balkan Beat Box
Balkan Beat Box is an Israeli musical group founded by Tamir Muskat, Ori Kaplan of Firewater and Big Lazy, and Tomer Yosef . As a musical project they often cooperate with a host of other musicians both in the studio as well as live...
with Tamir Muskat. the band has been touring globally since and have released 3 albums thus far.
Discography
- Blue Eyed Black Boy Balkan Beat Box 2010
- Balkan Beat Box Nu Med - Crammed Disc, Jdub Records
- Balkan Beat Box Balkan Beat BoxBalkan Beat BoxBalkan Beat Box is an Israeli musical group founded by Tamir Muskat, Ori Kaplan of Firewater and Big Lazy, and Tomer Yosef . As a musical project they often cooperate with a host of other musicians both in the studio as well as live...
- Essay Recordings, Jdub Records - JUF (Gogol BordelloGogol BordelloGogol Bordello is a Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring.Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music...
VS. Tamir Muskat) - Stinky Records - Man on the Burning Tightrope - Firewater Jetset Records
- Multi Kontra Culti - Gogol Bordello Rubric Records
- Le Magus - Ori Kaplan Shaat'nez Band - KFW 307
- William Parker's Little Huey - Mayor Of Punkville - AUM Fidelity
- Realms - Ori Kaplan Trio Plus - CIMP
- Cries of Disillusion - Kaplan with Assif Tsahar, Daniel Sarid, Bob Meyer, Oded
- Goldshmidt - Third Ear Records
- Delirium - Ori Kaplan 4tet (Trio Plus Steve SwellSteve SwellSteve Swell is an American free jazz trombonist and composer.Swell studied at Jersey City State College before moving to New York City in 1975 where he began his musical life, playing in top 40 bands, salsa bands, big bands and performed on Broadway in Bob Fosse's "Dancin""...
)- CIMP - Gongol - Ori Kaplan Percussion Ensemble with Susie IbarraSusie IbarraSusie Ibarra is a Contemporary Composer and Percussionist who has worked and recorded with jazz, classical, world, and Indigenous musicians. She is known for her work as a performer in avant-garde, jazz, world and new music...
- KFW 284