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The Budos Band is hard to categorize, something the instrumental band’s members themselves readily admit and even seem to argue for.

“We’re not Afrobeat, we’re not Ethiopian jazz. We’re not world music. We’re not really funk, we’re not soul. We’re not rock. We’re just an amalgam of all these different sounds, so things pop out in all directions when you listen,” saxophonist Jared Tankel said in a recent press release.

So what are they?

The Staten Island nine-piece band is a cacophony of rhythm, one supposes, with saxophones, trumpets, organs, congos, drums, and guitars all contributing their piece. It’s no surprise that the group originally came out of a jam session. It also should

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