Sunset Wednesdays: Los Hacheros
Sunset Wednesdays: Los Hacheros
July 26, 2023
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Photo: Marcela Joya
LOS HACHEROS
Papote Jimenez - Singer
Itai Kris - Flute
Roman Lajara - Tres
Xito Lovell - Trombone
William Ash - Bass
Marcos Lopez - Conga
Carlos Padron - Bongo
About the Artists
Brooklyn’s Los Hacheros are modern-day torchbearers of the Golden Age of Latin music. Their beat revives folkloric styles like son montuno, guaracha and salsa, and often combines them with the fiery Bomba rhythm.
Their debut album Pilon received critical praise for “its solid arrangements and lively original songs [that] impressed old-school salseros and young music fans alike” (Washington City Paper).
The album Bambulaye “was recorded to be gritty, driving, and infectious, with the goal to get you up and dancing from first listen,” says producer / guitarist Jacob Plasse, also founder of the Daptone-distributed Latin revival label, Chulo Records. “I wanted this record to feel and sound the way it does when we play our final sets at 3am, exhausted in East Harlem dives. Suddenly the band comes to life and all the old dancers are at it like it was 1970 again. In those moments, we feel like we could play all night.”
“Los Hacheros has the magic of group improvisation,” adds bassist William Ash. “We play in a style that is swing oriented and emphasizes the Cuban clave like great ones of old: Arsenio, Reve, Ritmo…”
Wave Hill
Ray Oladapo-Johnson, Executive Director
Gabriel de Guzman, Director of Arts & Chief Curator
Betsey Perlmutter, Curator of Performing Arts
The Performing Arts Program at Wave Hill is supported in part by the Bronx Delegation of the New York City Council and Council Member Eric Dinowitz; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; Foundation; and the Cathy and Stephen Weinroth Commissioning Fund for the Arts.
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