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, Pelirojas music was 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 Padrons timbales and Jhair Salas congas, forming a new fusion of old sounds.
Members
- Jainardo Batista
- Morgan Price
- Jacob Plasse
- Mike Eckroth
- Carlos Padron