paul rodriguez

Download: Fool’s Gold “Surprise Hotel”

(from the self-titled full-length due Sept. 29 on IAMSOUND)

L.A. Afro-pop band Fool’s Gold—including such vital L.A. musicians as Luke Top and Brad Caulkins, and interviewed by L.A. RECORD here—will be releasing their debut full-length on the formidable IAMSOUND label, noted by us most recently for their work with Telepathe. Excerpted archival interview below:

Do you have an album ready yet?
Luke: I want to call [our full-length] Notes From The Rat Race in Hebrew but I don’t know how to say it.
If you could play anywhere in the world, where would you play?
Lewis: I want to play this music festival in Mali, in the Sahara desert. It’s four hours by 4×4 out in the desert from Timbuktu. It’s the most remote music festival in the world. I think we could probably do it. They have Innuits performing, then French bands. I saw Navajo Indians. It’s in January every year­—it’s called the Festival in the Desert.
Big Search: I want to play on a space station. Why do we have to be world music? Let’s be universal.
Luke: We should play on the border between Israel and Palestine. Bring the two-state solution through sound. One foot on each side of the border. ‘Dear governments of the world, we are Fool’s Gold. Shalom.’