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Two years after releasing the Frontiers Edge EP, The Budos Band are returning with their first full-length since 2020s Long in the Tooth. Titled simply VII, the new album sees them doing what they do best: laying down hypnotic, horn-spiked grooves that menace and mesmerize in equal measure.Produced by Budos guitarist Tom Brenneck with Simon Guzmn engineering, VII features 11 tightly constructed new tracks that draw on the groups wide range of influences, sounding like only The Budos can. Its music for getting down, for nighttime drives, and for alternate headspaces a beguiling mix of mystery and rhythm that stands with the formidable work theyve released in their two decades of recording.We didnt really go in there with a concept on VII, drummer Brian Profilio says. It was the first time in two years that we were together in a studio so we were like, Lets see what happens. We ended up writing 11 songs in three days.These 11 songs run the gamut, featuring sweaty, hard-hitting funk workouts like Escape from Ptenoda City alongside explorations of Turkish psych in Night Raid and Zambian rock in the riff-heavy Overlander. It continues the stylistic evolution the group began with 2014s striking, shake-things-up album Burnt Offering.Its almost like weve refined the sound we were going for on Burnt Offering, Brenneck says of VII. Its not quite as raw.Thats the genreless aspect of the band, saxophonist Jared Tankel agrees. Were not Afrobeat, were not Ethiopian jazz. Were not world music. Were not really funk, were not soul. Were not rock. Were just an amalgam of all these different sounds, so things pop out in all directions when you listen.As usual, these songs are chopped up and splashed with the heavy horns so integral to The Budos sound, weaving melodies through the muscular rhythms and even deepening the groove when it calls for it. Horns can occupy a melodic space, even though its not a voice, Tankel says. They can also occupy an articulated and rhythmic space. Playing with that duality is cool.VII was recorded in California and serves as The Budos Bands first full-length album on Diamond West, the independent label founded in 2023 by Tankel and Brenneck. Its also the groups first album to include instrumental contributions from percussionist Rich Tarrana, who previously played in the Frightnrs. All told, it succeeds in opening up some new sonic spaces while staying tethered to the intuitive, unique musicality that made them such a sensation from the jump.Sometimes its like were speaking some esoteric language that no one else understands except us, and were doing it wrong, Brenneck says. Its like how the Stones tried to play the blues and they missed the mark and they made something new everything The Budos tries to do, we do wrong, and it sounds like The Budos.
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The Budos Band Biography
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 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 a full length album in the better part of three nights.
Jazz, deep funk, Afro-beat, and soul influences can be heard in the Budos Band albums, both of which are Daptone Records releases recorded at the label's own studio, Daptone's House of Soul, in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Numerous other funk and soul outfits appear on the same label including: The Mighty Imperials, Sugarman 3, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, plus others.
Most of the following musicians appear on both studio albums:
BRIAN PROFILIO, Drums
DANIEL FODER, Bass Guitar
THOMAS BRENNECK, Electric Guitar
MIKE DELLER, Organ
JARED TANKEL, Baritone Saxophone
ANDREW GREENE, Trumpet
DAVE GUY, Trumpet
COCHEMEA GASTELLUM, Tenor Sax/Flute
DAME RODRIGUEZ, Cowbell/Clave/Tambourine
VINCENT BALESTRINO, Shekere
ROB LOMBARDO, Bongo, Congas
JOHN CARBONELLA JR., Congas/Drums
The first album, The Budos Band, includes special guest appearances by:
NEAL SUGARMAN, Tenor Sax, Tambourine
DUKE AMAYO, Congas
JOHNNY GRIGGS, Cabasa
DAISY SUGARMAN, Flute
BOSCO MANN (a.k.a GABRIEL ROTH), Rhythm Guitar, Cowbell, Congas
Read MoreThe 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 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 a full length album in the better part of three nights.
Jazz, deep funk, Afro-beat, and soul influences can be heard in the Budos Band albums, both of which are Daptone Records releases recorded at the label's own studio, Daptone's House of Soul, in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Numerous other funk and soul outfits appear on the same label including: The Mighty Imperials, Sugarman 3, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, plus others.
Most of the following musicians appear on both studio albums:
BRIAN PROFILIO, Drums
DANIEL FODER, Bass Guitar
THOMAS BRENNECK, Electric Guitar
MIKE DELLER, Organ
JARED TANKEL, Baritone Saxophone
ANDREW GREENE, Trumpet
DAVE GUY, Trumpet
COCHEMEA GASTELLUM, Tenor Sax/Flute
DAME RODRIGUEZ, Cowbell/Clave/Tambourine
VINCENT BALESTRINO, Shekere
ROB LOMBARDO, Bongo, Congas
JOHN CARBONELLA JR., Congas/Drums
The first album, The Budos Band, includes special guest appearances by:
NEAL SUGARMAN, Tenor Sax, Tambourine
DUKE AMAYO, Congas
JOHNNY GRIGGS, Cabasa
DAISY SUGARMAN, Flute
BOSCO MANN (a.k.a GABRIEL ROTH), Rhythm Guitar, Cowbell, Congas
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