Oi Va Voi came together in the late 1999 when trumpeter Lemez Lovas, drummer Josh Breslaw, bassist Leo Bryant, clarinettist Steve Levi, guitarist Nik Ammar and violinist Sophie Solomon pooled their diverse musical backgrounds in left-field jazz, hip-hop, rock bands, drum n bass and klezmer. With the addition of KT Tunstall on guest vocals, their acclaimed debut album "Laughter Through Tears" fused modern dance music, singer-songwriter sensitivity and their Jewish cultural heritage with global rhythms drawn from Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond.

"Laughter Through Tears" received rave reviews, a place in the New York Times top 10 albums of the year, and two nominations on the BBC Radio 3 awards for world music. Anybody who has heard or seen Oi Va Voi is left in little doubt that they are far more than a world music act. Oi Va Voi were championing East European beats long before Gogol Bordello or Basement Jaxx. With an enviable ability to rock a crowd and get a dance floor heaving, their vibrant live shows continue to cultivate a huge underground following. Unfazed by the departure of KT Tunstall, Oi Va Voi took their unique mix of global rhythms and club-friendly beats to new heights on their eponymously titled second album with songs such as Yuri (described by Nigel Williamson: "it sounds like the French electronic duo Air kidnapped for the night by a bunch of crazed Russian gypsies in a Moscow vodka bar").

The Voi's forthcoming album Travelling The Face Of The Globe realises all of the possibilities opened up by their first two albums and more. Partly recorded in an old synagogue in London and again working with the producers of Laughter Through Tears, the latest offering returns to a more playful and uninhibited style of song-writing where the diverse elements of their sound are more fully integrated. The result is bolder, more beautiful, and more imaginative than anything even their most ardent fans could have expected. If the last record left people wondering if Oi Va Voi were an electronic dance act, world music worthies or a rock'n'roll band, the new album renders such questions irrelevant by trampling the fences of genre and simplistic categorisation out of sight. With an album of startling ambition and breathtaking audacity, the Voi are back!