Biography
Antibalas
Effective period / Period of releases: 2000 - 2020
Members: Todd Simon, Martin Perna, Stuart Bogie, Gabriel Roth, Nick Movshon, Victor Axelrod, Jordan McLean, Aaron Johnson, Duke Amayo, Ernesto Abreau, Luke O'Malley, Yoshi Takemasa, Eric Biondo, Michael 'H Bomb' Herbst, Marcus Farrar, Chris Vatalaro, Marcos J. Garcia, Dylan Fusillo, Reinaldo De Jesús, Phil Ballman, Frank Stribling, Raja Kassis, Kevin Raczka, Fernando Velez, Ray Mason (3), Morgan Price, Geoff Mann (2), Miles Arntzen, Nikhil Yerawadekar, Jas Walton
Brooklyn-based collective of musicians founded in 1998 by bandleader Martin Perna.Antibalas is Spanish for 'bulletproof', or literally, 'anti-bullets'. They have toured and played live extensively in over forty countries and five continents to push their new updated style of traditional Afrobeat music as once played by Fela Kuti.