Orkesta Mendoza - Paleta

We stay in Tucson, Arizona where we find another Latin music band called ORKESTA MENDOZA. It was founded by singer and guitarist Sergio Mendoza in 2009. Through the use of Latin percussion, accordion, brass, and steel guitars, the band's style, dubbed "indie mambo", is a combination of ranchera, cumbia, psychedelic and indie rock.

Sergio Mendoza formed Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta in 2009 out of a one-off tribute project to the Cuban mambo king Pérez Prado, which proved too much fun to stop. Later renamed the band's name to ORKESTA MENDOZA.

Border music without borders.

Sergio Mendoza (a longtime member of CALEXICO) grew up on both sides of the US/Mexican frontier. On the band’s 3rd album, “Curandero”, his musical melding of that experience explodes from the speakers.

“You know,” Mendoza says, “I made Curandero based around boogaloo, but really, it was just an excuse to rock out. Boogaloo is the root, but Rock’n’Roll, that’s my love, too.”

“Curandero”. It’s border music, without borders. The album was released April 10, 2020

Sergio Mendoza – vocals, piano, guitar
James Peters – drums, percussion, sequencing
Marco Rosano – saxophone, clarinet, accordion, keyboard Trombone
Sean Rogers – double bass
Raul Marquez - trumpet, guitar, vocals

Today's tune "Paleta" is taken from the album “Curandero”, enjoy!



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