For almost 15 years, the French band Les Yeux Noirs (The Black Eyes) has been energetically spreading its own brand of Yiddish and Gypsy music around the entire world. At the core of the septet are ...

The goal of Les Yeux Noirs is to demonstrate different cultures' musical affinities, but the octet's "Balamouk" is even more complicated linguistically than musically. The band is based in France, so ...

Though this Parisian band blends French Gypsy jazz, Rom music, and klezmer, last January the siblings at the heart of the group–Olivier Slabiak, who plays violin and sings, and his brother Eric, who ...

Twelve years ago, brothers Eric and Olivier Slabiak appeared destined for careers as classical violinists. Each had graduated from Brussels's Royal Conservatory of Music at the top of the class. But ...

Eric and Olivier Slabiak were both classically trained on the violin at the Brussels Conservatory, but when these Jewish brothers discovered the American klezmer revival, they fell in love with the ...

Rolando Arrieta profiles the French musical group, "Dark Eyes," (Les Yeux Noirs), which performs Gypsy and Jewish music on acoustic and electric instruments. Singer and violinist Erik Slabiak and his ...

Les Yeux Noirs (the Black Eyes), are a French band, but their music comes from all over, combining gypsy and Klezmer, all with a touch of jazz. Founded by violinists Eric and Olivier Slabiak, the ...