The Festive audience! de Baie-Saint-Paul and Montreal’s Distorsion festival had the premiere of new songs by the Texas-based psyche-funk-rock orchestra Golden Dawn Arkestra, known for their elaborate costumes and extraterrestrial themes — ” Space is the place », as Sun Ra, major inspiration of the Golden Dawn Arkestra, said. If the group knows how to develop good grooves dancing, his family drinking as much rock as Afrobeat (from Join as One at the opening of the album) and at the disco, he will have to make a little more effort on the compositions, which seem less remarkable than on his previous album, Darkness Falls on the Edge of Time (2019). Thus, the troop led by the singer, main composer and undoubtedly guru, Topaz “Zapot” McGarrigle, seems more concerned with integrating electro influences (with a lot of synthetic drums) into the sound of the group than with making their speech more consistent. There’s a lot about love and stars, and that’s fine, but a bit superficial. At least, the album makes you want to surrender to the intoxication of a dance floor.
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