Fool’s Gold

Mixing African and Middle Eastern influences as well as a hazy hint of guitar-based Traditional western pop, the LA world-pop outfit Fool’s Gold produce music that’s as glittery and beguiling as their moniker suggests, though not nearly as disingenuous. Spearheaded by bassist/vocalist Luke Best and Lewis Pesacov, both indigenous Israelis who emigrated to L.A. young, the group reaches once an Angeleno affair and a really global one, using its associates (who number somewhere within eight and 12) hailing from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Israel, not forgetting including three-quarters of Pesacov’s indie rock-band Foreign Blessed (and erstwhile associates from the Fall and We Are Researchers). Top’s bilingual lyrics (in Hebrew and British), a wailing sax section, and a range of handmade and internationally scavenged percussion equipment all enhance the pan-ethnic taste, however the group’s visual is most solidly rooted in its founders’ lifelong like of globe music, and even more specifically their understanding of Congolese soukous, Ethiopian and Eritrean music, and Tuareg desert blues — all designs that, as they’ve described, were subsequently partially motivated by Traditional western music. Best, whose heritage is normally Russian and Iraqi, and Pesacov, whose musical history also includes learning classical structure in Berlin with American expatriates, fulfilled at a San Fernando Valley summer months camp at age group ten, and also have performed music together since. Best and Pesacov began Fool’s Silver in 2006, building on a short inspiration to mix African and Traditional western pop noises with a small number of quickly penned joint compositions and jam periods, which then resulted in some casual gigs at barbecues and garden celebrations, where they asked anybody who wished to play to appear and sign up for them. Over another many years the music group solidified in to the lineup that documented its self-titled, self-produced debut in 2008, released the next yr on IAMSOUND Information. However, several people parted methods with Fool’s Yellow metal shortly after, and the rest continued as a far more traditional five-piece for 2011’s Keep No Trace.