The Ethio-Jazz Collection 1: Budos Band does Mulatu Astatke's Yekatit

Yes, I'm totally obsessed with this pimp band out of New York. Here's a wiki entry on the band: The Budos Band are an instrumental band recording on the Daptone Records label . . . [with] ten 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 2007 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.

I've seen these guys in concert. Amazing. Credit for this video goes to Spacemetalizer
http://www.youtube.com/user/spacemetalizer?feature=watch.

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