Bounce Into the Weekend with Yasser Tejeda's “Nuestra Raices”

<p>Some genres can be reinvented and re-seasoned endlessly. Every week we hear from bands that are expanding the limits of Afrobeat, or adding regional character to a broadly defined “funk.” Yasser Tejeda and Palotre's new single takes these staples and mixes in Afro-Dominican <em>palo</em> percussion to create the catchy new single, “Nuestra Raices.”</p> <p><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AWun2X6UDXE" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe> </p> <p>How's it sound? Afrobeat horns beat against the percussion section's flowing current. Despite the size, the large percussion ensemble starts and stops as nimbly as any soloist. It's a lock-step groove and a bouncy chorus, which is to say, it's scratching that Friday itch. </p> <p>We're eager to hear the band's new album in full, when <a href="https://palotre.net/" target="_blank">Kijombo drops on Oct. 11</a>. Yasser and band <a href="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/events/yasser-tejeda-palotr%C3%A9-at-rockwood-music-hall" target="_blank">perform at Rockwood Music Hall in Manhattan next Thurs., Aug. 29</a>, so we can get a little preview then. </p>