Fools Gold + Tinashe Live Tuesday, August 10 Fools Gold
Tinashe
We had Fools Gold play back in January. It was one of those shows where
you stare at the stage with a great big grin and then you dance and
then you wander out remembering how music is pretty amazing sometimes,
isn't it? "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." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yasi-salek/nine-la-bands-to-watch_b_515100.html#s75606
