{"id":1844,"date":"2025-05-30T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-budos-band-take-seven-steps-to-heaven\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:30:00","slug":"the-budos-band-take-seven-steps-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-budos-band-take-seven-steps-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"The Budos Band Take Seven Steps to Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Budos Band began as an instrumental jam band, and their seventh album\u2014arriving five years after their last full-length, Long in the Tooth<\/em> (playfully referred to as the group\u2019s entry into middle age)\u2014stays true to those roots. The Budos may not engage in winding guitar expeditions (sorry, Phisheads), but the way they raid dozens of genres and styles (2014\u2019s Burnt Offering<\/em> envisioned a Fela Kuti-obsessed Deep Purple) while prioritizing grooves partakes of the freewheeling jam tradition. VII <\/em>(out May 30), <\/em>written and recorded on the fly, has the comfortable swagger of a record made by a band with deep confidence in their skills, experience, and intuition. They\u2019ve got everything they need, and they don\u2019t need a plan.<\/p>\n

The basic Budos formula remains the same\u2014snaky tendrils of guitar, smoky ribbons of electric organ, and hard-hitting rhythms punctuated by brass, often with sax, trombone, and trumpets playing in unison. Solos are infrequent, but invariably surprising, such as the thrumming baritone sax workout in \u201cKudzu Vine,\u201d or the aching trumpet on \u201cThe Strigoi.\u201d The prominence of the organ and synths on tracks like \u201cLair of 1,000 Serpents\u201d and opener \u201cThrice Crowned\u201d recalls the swarthy musk of \u201cBurnt Offering,\u201d but the drums and auxiliary percussion are now far more supple and swinging. If the Budos Band were trying something out back in 2014, now they have it down to a sweet, sweet science. It\u2019s a heavy, hearty, and aromatic mix that could be\u2014as this kind of party-centric music often is\u2014described in stew terms: maybe a zesty jambalaya, or a spicy mulligatawny. Something hot, filling, and vaguely exotic, at any rate.<\/p>\n

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