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Thursday, July 10, 2008 --- 41 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Jambase/~3/332131010/headsup.asp
 By: Court Scott The Saturday Knights/Budos Band :: 06.27.08 :: Nectar Lounge :: Seattle, WA The Saturday Knights :: 06.27 by Christopher Nelson The last Friday night of the June summer had decided not only to visit, but to stay, inching close to record setting temperatures. At the Nectar Lounge in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood, hip-hop trio The Saturday Knights were throwing a party to celebrate the release of their fantastic new album, Mingle (released June 24 on Light in the Attic). Laden with clever and coolly delivered lyrics from MCs Tilson and Barfly , cross-genre beats and the most ridiculously catchy pop-punk-surf-soul melodies at the hands of DJ Suspense , Mingle should be on everyone's summer playlist - it's that accessible. But it was the show's opener, Staten Island's The Budos Band , who initially brought the heat, churning the over-capacity crowd into a frenzied mass with their fiery, chugging, tight Afrobeat rhythms. Budos Band, having released their second full-length album, The Budos Band II (Daptone Records) in 2007, is arguably one of the finer Afro-soul bands on the circuit. Tightly firing percussion is urged forward with a riptide of hypnotic horns and just enough organ and guitar to generate an undertow of funk, soul and psychedelia. As Nectar filled up and the crowd spilled forth onto the adjoining patio and sidewalk outside, the horns' slippery, lubricated cadence lured passersbys as it teased and flirted ... |
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