Daptone Records is proud to present The Budos Band III,\nunleashing The Budos Band s brazen sound and inspiring fervor among\nmusic lovers throughout the world. Produced by Bosco Mann and TNT\nat Daptone Records House of Soul Studios in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the\nband s third full-length studio effort was conceived during weekly,\nbeer-fueled Staten Island writing sessions as well as more than 150\nlive gigs over the last two years and recorded during a 48 hour\nperiod in January 2010. Since the release of their critically\nacclaimed The Budos Band II (2007), Staten Island s sole afro-funk\ncollective has been keeping busy. The Budos have toured Europe, the\nUS West Coast, Midwest, New Orleans, Miami, Northeast, and Canada.\nA mix of club dates, festivals, and the occasional high-profile\nprivate event has placed the band in front of a wide range of\nlisteners. One two-week span at the end of the summer of 2008 saw\nthem play jazz clubs in France, pubs in Belgium, the large Lowlands\nFestival in Holland, and Mark Ronson s birthday party at a private\nestate outside of London. If the menacing album art, which features\na cobra primed for the attack, is any indication of the music\nitself, we can expect an all out assault of the senses, with a\ntendency towards the venomous and psychedelic. The end result, as\nPitchforkmedia states, is something so hip it could kill you in\nlarge doses in the right doses it just plain kills. When your whole\nsound is based on the groove, keeping your listener wanting more is\nessential, and this does that. Pitchfork The Budos Band are\neverything great about Elmore Leonard movies without all the\ndialogue, palm trees, or Travolta: Just brassy sax, shakers, and\ncool-daddy-o bongos. Village Voice The minor-key horns and creeping\nbass lines will scare, not ease, you onto the dance floor. Spin You\ncould put [The Budos Band II] on in any room in the world a\nnightclub in Barcelona, a nursing home in Tenafly and folks would\nnot be able to stop themselves from dancing. NY Mag

\n\n1. Rite of the Ancients\n2. Black Venom\n3. The River Serpentine\n4. Unbroken, Unshaven\n5. Nature s Wrath\n6. Golden Dunes\n7. Budos Dirge\n8. Raja Haje\n9. Crimson Skies\n10. Mark of the Unnamed\n11. Reppirt Yad\n\n\n