"..to this madness I chiefly credit the mixed bag that drummer Tamir Muskat brings to the table. He's an animal on the kit.. An almost inhuman sense of rhythm.....when tamir and everyone else are jacked up to the same level, it’s a blissful blast-out."
Rivertive / Tony Leonardo 2002

"…driving driving driving is Big Lazy drummer Tamir Muskat... and Ori keeps butting with intensity which recalls the Bulgarian wedding sax of Yuri Yunakov."
Robert Christgau, Village Voice

"Kaplan plays a piquant, searing alto and a DEEP, rollicking baritone, and the Shot'nez compositions have much of the irreverent swagger and ebullience of Charles Mingus without being at all derivative of his style.....the pieces here are accessibly structured and Shot'nez puts them across with pointed lyricism and rhythmic whoop". Jazzreview.com

"Ori Kaplan has invented a whole new way to play music... If this sounds too conceptual and weird, believe me when I tell you “Le Magus” is very listenable and often even hummable." ...more
- Greg Burk: LA Weekly

Selected Recent Discography:

JUF (Gogol Bordello VS. Tamir Muskat) - Stinky Records(2004)
Man on the Burning Tightrope - Firewater Jetset Records (2003)
Multi Kontra Culti - Gogol Bordello Rubric Records(2002)
Le Magus - Ori Kaplan Shaat'nez Band - KFW 307 (2003)

Balkan Beat Box- BBB – Essay Recordings (2005)
Firewater- Songs we should have written-JETSET Records (2004)
Big Lazy – New Everything- TESENKY RECORDS 2002

Contact:

ori @ shotnez.com [no spaces]