Budos Band Budos Band Joannie Rochette of Canada skates her short program in the women's Joannie Rochette of Canada skates her short program in the women's Joannie Rochette reflects on her brave bronze at Vancouver 2010, 15. The Budos Band is an American instrumental band from Staten Island, New York, formed in 2005. AllMusic describes the group as a "doom rock Afro soul big band with a '70s touch" that joins "musical universes from trippy psychedelia and Afro funk to '70s hard rock and late '60s soul." They have described themselves as "70's Psychedelic Instrumental Music," and "Afro soul inspired by Ethiopian music with a soul undercurrent" and "sprinkled a little bit of sweet 60's stuff on top." One reviewer described the band as sounding as if Quentin Tarantino was the music supervisor for a Bond film". Their more recent albums have incorporated sounds from 1970s jazz, funk, Afro Beat, underground rock, and proto metal.[5] They have been signed to Daptone Records throughout their career.