Budos Band
"Unbroken, Unshaven"
Playing tonight at: Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St., L.E.S.)
Info: Tickets ($15) | Directions

The Budos Band is all instrumental, all New York and all kinds of raucousness. The group kicked out its third installment of its "original afro-soul" this year on the album The Budos Band III. The ten-to-thirteen piece ensemble has its roots in Staten Island but records in Bushwick's now famous Daptone Records' "House of Soul" studios, a much-sought after recording space for artists drawn to brash, new recording styles and to the work of Gabriel Roth, the studio's co-founder and producer who is also known as Bosco Mann. (Part-time New Yorker and perennial juggernaut record producer Mark Ronson is among those who has tapped Mann's studio for collaborations.) Jared Tankel, frontman and baritone saxophonist for the Budos Band, had this to say about Mann, who produced the group's most recent album: “With Bosco in the studio, doing what he does, the sky isn’t the limit. There simply is no sky.”