The Budos Band
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 2005 trimmed to The Budos Band after one of the boys shaved.
Daptone Records
Mp3s: http://www.myspace.com/budosband
Amazing Ghost
"Most anyone who has lived in New Haven within the last ten years know/remember/hate/have slept with Eddie Pren, renaissance man, New Haven pizza hustler, master of the sartorial arts and former musical/cult leader of Pencilgrass. He disappeared a few years ago, but is back with a new band, Amazing Ghost, a new piece of vinyl, a new video and exactly the same attitude about life. We think the video speaks for itself." - John Panos (MT Bearington, Mates of State, Free Energy)
Mp3s: http://amazingghost.bandcamp.com/
DJ Norrin
Norrin was born the son of a funky drummer with the beat living inside of him from the start. With early influences coming from his father's record collection Norrin quickly developed a love for music. A desire to discover new, funky and unusual sounds was born. DJing came into the mix after mixtapes of Mo-Town, funk, psychedelic rock and everything in between began being produced on a regular basis. During this period DJ Shadow's Endtroducing changed Norrin's perspective on music and soon presented the galaxy with a DJ whose mission was to become one with the music. Searching the galaxy for grooves has become Norrin's eternal quest. When DJ Norrin lands in your area you can be assured there will be no stopping the boogie down.
$15 / 21+
