Goldstar - Zig Zag (Self Release) [Psychedelic Funk]
- The Slow Music Movement
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It's hard to piece the Goldstar story together, and unfortunately there are only so many hours in the day, but it appears that it's the project of multi-instrumentalist Evan Golde who is a dab hand on drums, all sorts of percussion, keyboards, and who is currently head down and learning guitar, with a fondness for ringing up his mates for borderless, psychedelic funk jams using vintage equipment then hiding the recordings away in the Bandcamp underground for the curious to find.
He's also just dropped a new album, and if you're globally attuned, not voting for your local populist party and like shaking your arse, then it might be right up your street. A vintage funk and exotic sensibility is the thread that binds the album, but hold tight anything could happen, as you find out on hitting play to be confronted by "Recreational Rincarnation" - some far-out, sitar-infused vibes that rapidly morph into freaky funk rock. And that's just the start. Hold tight for more stripped-back beats that should interest more adventurous hip hop producers, evocative Middle Eastern-infused grooviness, cosmic wave surfing soundtracks, hippy trail weird outs, dubbed-up cumbia, the lysergic Indo-funk of the album's title track and even some punk-funk wig-outs with a pleasing attitude. It's a wild, weirdy album of far-out, funk infused, exotic, dance floor deviance; tune in and turn on.