The Budos Band III

"Slowly and steadily, Staten Island's Budos Band has found a way out of the existing template of Afrobeat music and created a distinctive hybrid that no longer sounds very much like the past, or their peers. The ten-piece instrumental band, centered on a horn section led by the baritone-sax player Jared Tankel, produces thick, layered funk styles that can't easily be traced back to the music of Fela Kuti or other funk auteurs. The band's latest album, 'III,' has the deceptive ease of a perfectly conceived record" (Sasha Frere-Jones, "Critic's Notebook," New Yorker, 12/6/10).
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