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A live capture of The Budos Band by KEXP radio at THING Festival, Fort Worden State Park (Port Townsend, Washington), on 25 August 2023. This Brooklyn instrumental band, a standard-bearer of afro-soul and cinematic funk, spotlights its EP Frontier’s Edge, the first release on its own Diamond West label. Aired in the Live on KEXP series, this open-air performance renders the powerful horn sound and hypnotic rhythms inherited from 1960s and 1970s soul and funk productions. This instrumental full set runs through Frontier’s Edge, Crescent Blade, Long in the Tooth and Gun Metal Grey, between cutting guitar riffs, organ and a horn section. A live concert ideal for fans of instrumental funk and deep funk, it shows the stage command of a collective that shuns lyrics to tell stories through groove instead. The polished KEXP capture highlights every section. A precious document for reliving The Budos Band at a festival in 2023, in an authentic live format.
Setlist
- Frontier's Edge
- Crescent Blade
- Long in the Tooth
- Gun Metal Grey
Personnel & credits
- Andrew Greene — trumpet
- Eric Biondo — trumpet
- Jared Tankel — saxophone
- Daniel Foder — bass
- Brian Profilio — drums
- Thomas Brenneck — guitar
- Michael Deller — organ
- Rob Lombardo — bongos
- Scott Holpainen — director, editor
- Kevin Suggs — sound engineer, mixing
- Matt Ogaz — sound engineer, mastering
- DJ Morgan — host
