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This is not an album I would normally have picked up of my own volition, but it was recommended to me by the manager where I usually by my CDs and I am very impressed with it. The Budos Band is an instrumental funk/world beat group that totally blows me away. There are a couple of things about the recording that I think are pretty neat. One is that Daptone Records is an old school recording studio and records its artists on analog tape. I used to think that the insistence in some quarters that music sounded better when recorded analog was just an old school pose, but I’ve just about come around to the belief that the ear really does respond to analog music more naturally than it does to digital recordings. The other thing is that when I put this album on I feel like I’m in the middle of a cop show from the seventies.

I can’t say exactly what it is about it that gives me that vibe, but the fellow that sold me the CD made the same observation a couple of weeks after I bought the CD so it isn’t just me. Be forewarned, if you play this CD while driving through town you will channel Starsky and Hutch and possibly miss a few stoplights and wind up driving on the sidewalk. I’m not sure exactly what it is about the music that gigs me that way, but it has a sense of urgency and drama about it that makes it seem apt for use as a score. It isn’t just the drama, a lot of the arrangements make use of phrases that all of us that grew up on television automatically respond to as cues. It just naturally occurs to me that the end of Deep in the Sand should mean ‘shows over’. Just like the opening of Chicago Falcon means ‘Roll opening credits’ to me.

They really are fabulous musicians and it is probably a much different experience to see them live than it is to hear them on CD in your car, but when I pop this CD in I inevitably feel the need to chase someone down and drag them from their car.

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