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- Jul
The Budos Band - Chicago Falcon
I try to keep up, but sometimes other things come up, and I forget that local labels, like Brooklyn's own Daptone, are cranking out the real deal.
The Budos Band is releasing their second album, Budos Band II in a couple of weeks on the Bushwick funk-powerhouse, and I can't recommend it enough. According to their biography, the band totals eleven members (drums, bass, guitar, electric organ, two trumpets, bari-sax, and a percussion section), the core of which met playing in an after-school Jazz ensemble at a community center in Staten Island. They formed Los Barbudos (the bearded ones), but trimmed the name to Budos after one member shaved his beard off. The Budos Band released their first record on Daptone in 2005, and this album is a truly excellent follow-up. It is riddled with Afro-funk and soul. The band sounds super tight together, but funky and loose as hell at the same time. As is the case with pretty much everything that Daptone releases, if you played this for someone, you'd have no reason to suspect that it was new music: it sounds like totally classic, all-instrumental funk that belongs on a blaxploitation soundtrack circa 1973.
If this track whets your whistle, the rest of Budos Band II is totally essential stuff. Look for it in stores and online July 31st. Check the Daptone site (here) for more info on the album, and a string of live dates throughout August, and visit their myspace page for more info and tunes.