afrobeat

The Budos Band are an "Instrumental Staten-Island Afro-Soul" outfit recording on the Daptone Records label. The band has eleven 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 recent 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.

Yaaba Funk are a band playing funky Hi-Life and Afrobeat. influenced by Alhaji K Frimpong, Fela Kuti, Oscar Sulley, Ghanaian and Nigerian sounds from the 70s as well as funk, broken beat and jazz. Based in Brixton in south London, they play regularly on the London circuit and are know for electrifying shows featuring tight and powerful Afro rhythm section. Their debut LP, provisionally entitled "Afrobeast", will be released in 2009.

See artist The Budos Band.

Marcos "Marquitos" Garcia was born into a musical Cuban family, and is currently a member of American Afrobeat pioneers, Antibalas. Armed with his childhood Casio keyboard, in late 2002 he embarked upon an experiment in afrobeat. The outcome was Manifest Tone Vol.1, a collection of raw and dirty, Lo-Fi tracks to make your body move. Encouraged by his Antibalas bandmates to keep exploring, Garcia ventured into the world of 1980's drum machine beats and sounds.