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The Budos Band are an “Instrumental Staten-Island Afro-Soul” outfit recording on the Daptone Records label. The band has eleven members (up to thirteen members at times) who play instrumental music that is self-described as “Afro-Soul,” a term and sound which - in a recent interview - baritone saxophone player Jared Tankel elucidates as, being drawn from Ethiopian music the band had been listening to that had a soul undercurrent to it, which the band then “sprinkled a little bit of sweet 60’s stuff on top” of.
The core of the band met as youths while all participating in an after school jazz ensemble at the Richmond Ave. Community Center, in Staten Island, New York. It wasn’t long before their common hunger for the rougher stripped down sounds of Soul Music brought them together for late night ferry rides into Manhattan, where they would sneak in the back door of the No Moore Club downtown to hear bands like Antibalas, the Sugarman Three, and Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. It was there, in that basement hothouse packed with the only the hippest James Brown fanatics and Fela Kuti disciples, where the kernels of instrumental Afro-Soul were first sown into the fertile minds of these talented young men. Kernels which would later germinate and grow into the roots of their strong unique sound. After meeting resistance from the band director about the direction they were trying to take the music, they left the Community Center to form Los Barbudos, (spanish for “the bearded ones”) a name which was later trimmed to The Budos Band after one of the boys shaved.
The core of the band met as youths while all participating in an after school jazz ensemble at the Richmond Ave. Community Center, in Staten Island, New York. It wasn’t long before their common hunger for the rougher stripped down sounds of Soul Music brought them together for late night ferry rides into Manhattan, where they would sneak in the back door of the No Moore Club downtown to hear bands like Antibalas, the Sugarman Three, and Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. It was there, in that basement hothouse packed with the only the hippest James Brown fanatics and Fela Kuti disciples, where the kernels of instrumental Afro-Soul were first sown into the fertile minds of these talented young men. Kernels which would later germinate and grow into the roots of their strong unique sound. After meeting resistance from the band director about the direction they were trying to take the music, they left the Community Center to form Los Barbudos, (spanish for “the bearded ones”) a name which was later trimmed to The Budos Band after one of the boys shaved.
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Shoutbox
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st0mpr wrote:
New EP is dope, get it!
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Azuk4 wrote:
The best live band ever...
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catacombs wrote:
Such a bummer that they cancelled the whole euro tour :(
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AwesomeSwede wrote:
i agree with MERSHOT T.I.B.W.F is the shit
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hugoy wrote:
these guys are fuckin brilliant! Just like the also gorgeous Kokolo
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ithinkx wrote:
Budos featured in the latest ithinkx Podcast: http://ithinkxblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/ithinkx-podcast-7-africa.html
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MERSHOT wrote:
T.I.B.W.F is the shit
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Wesbecher wrote:
This gets my feet movin! Seconds to Chicago gigs soon.
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Hoffmanstropfen wrote:
yeaa yupp... nice guys
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DE5PER4DO5 wrote:
I like these guys...
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jamescross wrote:
Hey guys check out Raphael Saadiq's new video for "100 Yard Dash" It's amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPZwivhERY
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toolrockt wrote:
I just hope they gonna publish another disc soon ... cannot wait any longer!!!
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st0mpr wrote:
Origin Of Man is sick!
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ricoroces wrote:
playing vibes.............blow up!!!
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maryamaia wrote:
bon son
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Beefheart- wrote:
It'd be amazing to see these guys live... I'm a bit jealous
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Affenkoenig wrote:
thats good music. it is.
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vlijtigliesje wrote:
I saw them last year in Antwerp, Belgium! Great show!
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jayare214 wrote:
man these cats are the greatest!!!!
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tmikos wrote:
fnck yeah
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The Budos Band
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The Budos Band
Black Cat, Washington DC, United States
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The Budos Band's Listening Party is currently featured on Spinner
17 Jun 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/budosband
Link directly to the listening party for the Budos Band's new EP below:
http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/3
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26 Jul 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/budosband
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