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Staten Island, New York (2005 – present)

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 2005 trimmed to The Budos Band after one of the boys shaved.
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    100% Proof Ultra Cool

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    Watched them in Brooklyn back in 2010... awesome!!

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    Please schedule more tour dates in L.A. !!

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    100% AWESOME ...... ! ! !

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    Love you guys but I heard you wouldn't be invited back to Floydfest because you guys made such a mess and didn't clean it up prior to your show. I hope that isn't true.

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    one of the best groovers ever

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The Budos Band III and 2010 Summer Tour

8 Jun 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/budosband

The time has come to announce the release of our third full-length album...It's official, people.  On August 10, 2010, Daptone Records will release The Budos Band III, the …

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