Golden Dawn Arkestra

One Liner: Psych instrumental freakout jam music, but with horns

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia entry.  Uh, psych rock, jam band, funk futuresounds zippy slip.  Something online said Afropsych.  OK.
Home:  Austin!

Poster Position: 13
Day: Friday at 3:45
Both Weekends.

Thoughts:  Sweet band name, right?  This is one of those bands with 94 people in it, all jamming out on stage together at the same time, and one where they try to outweird themselves with their media message.  Check the landing page of their website.  "From these Forbears, Great Nomads of the Golden Dawn.  A Cabal of Secret Chiefs Arose.  They Live in Light and Worship in Honor of the Message.  Awaiting the Return of their Divine Solar Mandjet.  They Convey the Signal in Song as they Look Towards the Skies for a Sign of the Coming Light.  They are Known Among Believers as the Golden Dawn Arkestra."  This is the part where that scary ass Heaven's Gate Marshall Applewhite guy shows up to induct you into his cult.

I want you to join Golden Dawn Arkestra!!!

The tunes are electric boogaloo psych funk jam music - mostly instrumentals.  Two albums, 2014's Golden Dawn Arkestra (with a bit more surf influence) and 2016's Stargazer.  Nothing is extremely popular by stream count, but the top one is the title track from the new album.  Here is "Stargazer," which has just under 200k streams.

Only 3,521 views of that video, and yet its been out there for two years.  Not good.  I mean, 13 year old me would have watched it a hundred times just for the boobs. I guess kids these days don't need negative exposure boobs and can just see a million of the real thing online.  Nevermind.  Most of their tunes are in the 30k stream zone, or less, but one tune from their earlier album breaks the 100k limit at 144k.  This is "Dimensions."

Good funky track.  I think this band will be a ridiculous amount of fun at the Fest.  I mean, none of their songs are boring.  Weird, yes.  Lacking lyrics, yes.  A little frightening, also yes.

The band itself is also weird as crap (as though the website discussion up above doesn't explain that.  Check this article about the band, here are a few bullets from there:

• From Austin.
• The members are all space aliens who met and formed the band a few years ago.
• The lead singer's stage name is Zapot Mgawi.  But his real name is purportedly Topaz McGarrigle.  C'mon man.  How are you using a stage name with a real name like that?
• They apparently have a new album (Children of the Sun) but Spotify doesn't have it - BOOOOOOO!

Let's freaking do this.  Who is bringing the mind altering substances?  Time to drop some California Sunshine and shimmy to the shiny sounds of slippery spacewaves.