The Pepper Pots gives a step forward with its new album: “NOW!”.A new sound, new look and new horizons show us a band in constant progress. As usual, they attend to every little detail and take care more than ever its “Old School” sound, inspired on the old dusty vinyl from the Motown, Stax or Studio One classic sound.
“NOW!”, contains a collection of good themes full of strength and feeling, it counts with a luxury production from the hand of the New Yorker Binky Griptite (Dap-Kings, Sharon Jones, Amy Winehouse…).
Surrounded by the best professionals, the album will be recorded between Musiclan (Catalonia) & Dubway Studios (Manhattan), analogically mixed in Brooklyn and finally masterized at Trutone Mastering Labs in New York.
All of this makes an indispensable album for any black music lover.With more than 200 concerts, The Pepper Pots has made vibrate public from all over the world: Tokyo, Osaka, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, London, Moscow, Helsinki, Vienna, Verona, Prague, Bern, Barcelona, Madrid… Playing in relevant festival like South by Southwest (Austin - Texas), 22nd SummerJam Reggae Festival (Cologne - Germany), Rock for People (Hradec Králové - Czech Rep.
), BAM Festival (Barcelona - Catalonia), Black Music Festival (Girona - Catalonia) among others. Its success has gone beyond frontiers and they have already turned into a European benchmark.In the band beginnings, after two years exploring their old influences sound, The Pepper Pots recorded their debut album “Swingin’ Sixties” (Brixton Records -2004), later released by the Japanese label Ska in the World.
Their second work left on 2007: “Shake It!” (Brixton Records). The album counts with the featuring of the legendaries The Pioneers, and the versatile German artist Dr. Ring Ding, as well as the French Ska combo ASPO.
The album was soon released in Japan again by Ska in the World, and a year later also in The Unites States by Megalith Records. In both countries they toured after the album launching.