Statistiken
Biografie
The Budos band formed in 2005 and are currently releasing their music through Daptone Records. There are nine consistent musicians in the line up who are occasionally joined by guests for their recordings and live shows. Budos have described their sound as afro-soul which is a genre often affiliated with them, it is a merger of jazz and soul with African influences. They have often noted as Ethiopian music as a large influence on their sound and this appears to create the back bone to their releases that they then incorporate genres such as funk and jazz.
Their albums have all been recorded at Daptone's personal studio named Daptone's House of Soul, in Brooklyn, New York. The first LP was released in 2005 and was simply titled 'The Budos Band'. The band then began a running theme, always including the band name in their album titles, their second album is 'The Budos Band II' and the third is 'The Budos Band III'. They also released an EP in 2009 called 'The Budos Band EP'.
Four of their tracks were used in the soundtrack of 2009 film 'New York, I Love You' whilst 'Up From the South' was featured in an NFL advert in 2013. The band has toured worldwide, stopping off in Canada, Europe and Australia.
Live-Bewertungen
My wife and I have been big fans of the Budos Band and have everything on vinyl. This past Saturday was our first time seeing them live and OMGoodness!!! What a great experience that was! The live show was a little different than the studio stuff. These guys party! I know the Atlanta show was their third night in a row and the energy level was still alive and well. We danced every song and I lost my voice about half the way through. I'm 60 and I've seen more than my fair share of shows. This one ranks high on my list.
Every single artist on the stage from the guitar player to the bongo player was absolutely amazing. That bari sax player is balls to the wall as well as the two trumpet players. Their sound is pure raw power. The bass player is a powerhouse as well. He torchered that SG bass. I kept waiting for him to change instruments because I just knew one wouldn't hold up to his ability to just play the tee-total hell out of it. He was shooting from the hip! The two drummers, the kit and bongo players were just pure power as well. Very tight! The guitar player was focused and pure business. Together they represented Staten Island and worked hard as a band to bring a unique sound that is so much of what I have become to know as that Staten Island, Dap Tone Records sound. We loved every second of it. It was indeed a blast partying with these fellers. I hope us Atlanta fans encouraged them enough that we'll see them more often in the future.
Some people struggle to understand the appeal of going to see a purely instrumental band perform live, those people have clearly never seen New York outfit the Budos Band. A decade into their career, this collective has performed at some of the world's most renowned musical events and seem to only get stronger with each performance.
Although they don't have vocalists, the saxophone and rich brass section facing microphones seem to be like a musical version of a vocal and they all interact together. With deep funk, soul and afrobeat influences acknowledging their five studio albums, the music changes and evolves over the space of the concert. The audience remains enthusiastic and receptive throughout as they applaud and cheer at the finale of every single song played. They perform an unusual cover of Led Zepplin's 'Immigrant Song' before finishing on a triumphant crescendo of 'Turkish'. It is a brilliant night of music with some of the best instrumentalists you are likely to see performing on the circuit.
I would give this show a mixed review. I dig this group's albums, but I don't tend to find their more extensive, jam filled versions of their instrumental too interesting and I get restless. For me, at least, only a few artists can pull that off. The grooves on their songs are what gets me going, and there were plenty of those, which is why I generally enjoyed the evening. Also, that version of LZ's Immigrant Song was excellent and a great way to close the show.
One thing, though; one member of the band led a "sing along" in which ever third work was profane. Cursing doesn't typically bother me, but this was not exactly dialog from a Martin Scorsese movie. Most people in the audience seemed to dig it, so it seems I'm in the minority, there.