The Budos Band

2009 - Budos Band EP



Artist: The Budos Band
Title Of Album: Budos Band EP
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Daptone Records
Genre: Funk / Afrobeat / Jazz-Funk
Format: MP3
Bitrate: VBR ~255 kbps
Tracks: 7
Total Time: 20:51 min
Total Size: 41 MB

Tracklist:

01. Hidden Hand
02. Mas O Menos
03. The Proposition
04. Ephra
05. Nobody's Bulletproof
06. Smoke Gets In
07. Bonus Track

The Budos Band is the quintessence of Staten Island Soul. Their exciting new afro-influenced take on instrumental music has been captivating listeners from turntables as well as bandstands across the nation. Eleven pieces in all, their group consists of drums, bass, guitar, electric organ, two trumpets, baritone saxophone, and a percussion section employing bongos, congas, tambourine, guiro, clave, shekere and cowbell. Their music has been described as “compelling”, “unbridled”, “psychedelic”, “innovative”, and above all “soulful.” However, like many majestic things, their sound had humble beginnings.

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. With the recruitment of a few horn players from the neighboring borough of Brooklyn, the band began to practice regularly, exploring the outer cosmic boundaries of afro-beat and soul music from the safety of their tiny concrete rehearsal space on Sand St. As they learned and grew together, their music matured, expanding and settling into a groove as deep and as broad as the Hudson Bay itself. By the time they had arranged a chance to play for a Daptone A&R man, their sound had hardened to a diamond. They were signed on the spot and scheduled to go into the studio immediately for a recording session where they would proceed to cut their first full length album in the better part of three nights.

The musicians claim the secret to their enormous sound is a selfless approach to rhythm: each man finding his own place and purpose in the greater landscape of the measure. However, any observant listener can hear that it is something far more simple and rare that elevates their sound beyond the sphere of cognitive reason and into that far greater realm of pure feeling: The Budos Band have Soul, on the Inside. And it’s Strong!

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2007 – The Budos Band II



01. Chicago Falcon
02. Budos Rising
03. Ride or Die
04. Mas o Menos
05. Adeniji
06. King Cobra
07. His Girl
08. Origin of Man
09. Scorpion
10. Deep in the Sand

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The Budos Band - The Budos Band III (2010)



MP3 VBR kbps | 71 MB


1. Rite of the Ancients (3:48)
2. Black Venom (3:32)
3. River Serpentine (3:10)
4. Unbroken, Unshaven (2:59)
5. Nature's Wrath (4:54)
6. Golden Dunes (3:18)
7. Budos Dirge (2:39)
8. Raja Haje (3:58)
9. Crimson Skies (3:35)
10. Mark of the Unnamed (4:00)
11. Reppirt Yad (2:57)

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