Peliroja - Album

Peliroja - Album

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Full length LP or CD by Peliroja! Released 2014 on Chulo Records. In the band's music one can hear shades of Irakere, Mongo Santamaria, Mulatu, Fela Kuti, Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive and more. In addition, they are influenced by Dominican, Congolese and Malian music, but with a funk edge.

As well as the Peace & Rhythm 7", they also have this highly-regarded brand new full length LP/CD/digital album Injusticia on the band's own Chulo Records. The video for "Situaciones" was the #1 video at World Music Network's video charts for the month of November. The band has been featured on NPR's Alt Latino, Wax Poetics and recently hosted a record release party for the 7" at the esteemed Joe's Pub at the Public Theater in Manhattan.
Producer and guitarist Jacob Plasse has united some of his old friends - players from the Daptones, Pedrito Martinez Group and Los Hacheros - to form Peliroja, a New York collective inspired by the sounds of Ethiopia, Dominican Republic, Cuba and the Congo. Produced and co-written by Plasse, these tunes were recorded live to tape at his studio in Brooklyn, in the spirit of the music he was raised on. The groove to this music is deep, and heard in the way the Daptones’ rhythm section - drummer Homer Steinweiss and bassist Nick Movshon - play off the polyrhythms of Carlos Padron’s timbales and Jhair Salas’ congas, forming a new fusion of old sounds. Vinyl LP: $15 plus shipping, CD: $10 plus shipping

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