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che apalache

8/16/2019

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​Che Apalache (from the album Rearrange My Heart available on Free Dirt Records)
Handclaps and percussive beats are the foundation when Che Apalache offer a greeting as introduction with “Saludo Murguero” on Rearrange My Heart, their recent release. The album is a multi-lingual vocal delivery from the band while musically, Che Apalache circle the globe seamlessly gliding between pure Latin takes on the tunes (“Maria”), picking out rigid notes as the sound flies over Asian lands backed with a native language storyline (“春の便り(The Coming of Spring)”, airing dusty Southwest rhythms (“Rock of Ages”), and presenting traditional Bluegrass strains that give way to rock’n’roll riffing (“Over in Glory/New Spring”). The basic make-up of the four-piece is a string band, Bluegrass in instrumentation, specifically Old Time music the beacon that drew Joe Tropp (fiddle), Pau Barjau (banjo), Franco Martino (guitar) and Martin Bobrik (mandolin) together as a band in 2013.
Originally from North Carolina, Joe Troop relocated to Buenos Aires, the quartet based in the South American city with members from Argentina, Mexico, and the United States. Produced by banjo master Bela Fleck, the Rearrange My Heart title track is a supplication to the heavens, Che Apalache transmitting the message with four-part harmonies. Addressing topical headlines, Che Apalache harmonize over guitar strums for the stories in “The Dreamer” while the quartet use “Once Took Me In” to put Folk music on a world stage and ‘sing about a better world’, promising to stand together on both sides of “The Wall”, uniting to knock down the barrier so all citizens can abide in a ‘land where freedom rings’.
Listen and buy the music of Che Apalache from AMAZON
https://www.cheapalache.com/
 

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