Fool's Gold, The Bitter Honeys
- When
- Fri Oct 8, 2010
- Where
- Rickshaw Stop
- Time
- Show @ 8:30 pm
- Cost
- $12
- Tags
- Music
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Fool’s Gold is a Los Angeles collective that weaves together western pop aesthetics with African rhythms and melodies. "Fool's Gold is sort of like a musical Benneton Ad. Drawing influences from all over the globe, including (but not limited to) Ethiopian soul, Cuban conga, and Brazilian funk, Fool’s Gold isn’t your pony-tailed step-dad’s world music (no didgeridoos here), nor is it your typical sampling and remixing (not that we’re mad at that, Diplo). The point is this isn’t cultural appropriation; it is musical appreciation. The twelve members of this band are not African, but they are diverse and talented, amongst them a Ghana-trained percussion leader (Orpheo McCord), an Argentine pop star (Erica Garcia) and members of several other lauded LA bands (including Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Foreign Born, and We Are Scientists). Fool’s Gold is ultimately fusion music, but in this case, (unlike with mango salsa) that’s not such a bad thing." --Huffington Post"[Luke] Top's melancholic, almost Morrissey-esque vocals bounce off the echoing Ethiopian pop soundscape of 'Nadine,' twisting and twirling around the plaintive sax line, while the lyrics of 'Ha Dvash' ('Honey') seamlessly fold into the choral chants and trance-like grooves of the track's desert blues." --Village Voice
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