kc Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 (edited) PJC presents the mighty, awesome, breathtakingly, dope as fuck, BUDOS BAND Friday, June 29th, 2007 Advance tickets $10, $12 at the door. Tix available at PJC, Dr. Disc, http://www.tixit.ca http://thebudos.com/ http://www.daptonerecords.com/pages/dap005thebudosLP-CD-preview.html http://www.myspace.com/budosband BRIAN PROFILIO, Drums DANIEL FODER, Bass Guitar THOMAS BRENNECK, Electric Guitar MIKE DELLER, Organ JARED TANKEL, Baritone Saxophone ANDREW GREENE, Trumpet DAVE GUY, Trumpet DAME RODRIGUEZ, Cowbell/Clave/Tambourine VINCENT BALESTRINO, Shekere ROB LOMBARDO, Bongo, Congas JOHN CARBONELLA JR., Congas/Drums Like the deadly scorpion of the album's cover, The Budos Band's second release, The Budos Band II, creeps stealthily over the hot desert sand. It is with unmistakabl purpose that each beat of the music drives forth, one footstep of many to carry the Scorpion toward it's meaning. With his tail arched high in readiness, he maneuvers patiently under the scorching desert sun, and chooses his prey. He strikes without warning and without remorse. The venom of his sting, true to its reason; his victim, ever-intoxicated. With it's twenty-two legs, three horns, and hallucinogenic venom, The Budos Band, the un-heralded emperors of Instrumental Staten Island Afro-Soul, continue to rule. The band commands their listeners to follow them on their second journey into the depths of their poisonous vision. While their debut album was itself heralded as a groundbreaking exploration of funk, afro-beat and soul music, few could predict that their second effort would not only match but surpass the realm of mind-expansion embodied on their first sessions. Through ten exciting new instrumentals recorded live at Daptone's House of Soul in Bushwick, Brookyln, The Budos Band pours themes at once resonant and ethereal over Herculean rhythms. The Budos Band is the quintessence of Staten Island Soul. Their exciting new afro-influenced take on instrumental music has been captivating listeners at gigs across the Tri-State area. 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. 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 BudosBand 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. Their debut, self-titled album on Daptone Records is hard evidence of their eruption onto today's Funk and Soul scene. The dramatic peels of brass and sax poured so liberally over sparsely orchestrated rhythm arrangements intone moods which are in one instant hopeful and sinister, urgent and nostalgic, buoyant and depthful beyond measure. The record opens with a lone prowling bass line that circles it's listener four times before the fierce calculating rhythms of the drums and percussion join in. It is not, of course, until the barks and howls of the horns join the fray when we are able to hear the full spectrum of the band's voice. 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. www.pepperjackcafe.com Edited June 25, 2007 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted June 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shainhouse Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 I wish I could be there. this will be fucking dope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted June 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 (edited) Youtube'n...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elZpXD0GnJk Edited June 25, 2007 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted June 25, 2007 Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 Did these guys play with Diesel Dog once at PJC? I think I've seen them and I plan on seeing them when they come to Montreal if I'm still here. Woo Hoo Jazz Fest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooly Posted June 25, 2007 Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 this looks killers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted June 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 I don't think they ever did boko.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted June 26, 2007 Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 I still have the feeling I've seen them somewhere, I have no idea where though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edger Posted June 26, 2007 Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 Yeah, I really wish I could make this one too. Tough on a long weekend. I need some solitude, so we be camping.Have fun everyone who goes!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted June 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 (edited) This will be their 3rd time playing here. maybe you came for them. Maybe you are getting them mistaken for another 8+ member band that we have booked in the past. Edited June 26, 2007 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prost Posted June 27, 2007 Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 I'm gonna try to make it out to this show....should be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted June 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 Funkin' bumpin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted June 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u5fNNaXFH4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted June 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 Wicked night. Budos good...So nice to see so many people from this here board here too...Thanks y'all. Check the Nomo this thursday if you can.. should also be killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prost Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 Thanks for the show Ken! What a night! Great show! It was good to see some faces that I haven't seen in quite some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 amazing show... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted July 2, 2007 Report Share Posted July 2, 2007 It was good to see Prost. The band wasn't bad either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted July 2, 2007 Report Share Posted July 2, 2007 It was good to see Prost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 the paisley wasn't bad either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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