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A collective of semi-nomadic musicians, poets, storytellers and coffee grinders from the Egyptian Sinai Desert. The group's songs and poetry recall the exploits of the ancient Arabian Bedouin tribes, recounting fables about trusty camels and tales of unrequited love for the girl with beautiful eyes in the next settlement. Blending the Simsimlyya (a traditional Egyptian lyre) with desert flutes and reed pipes, BJB perform traditional melodies accompanied by infectious rhythms played on tablas, frame drums and clay jugs; augmented by ammunition boxes and jerry can percussion salvaged from the former battlegrounds of the Six-Day War of 1967.