Austin-based band Golden Dawn Arkestra will release their highly anticipated release The Gold Album on August 12 digitally and on limited 180 gram edition vinyl. The Gold Album will be released in partnership with Spaceflight Records, Eye in the Sky and Terrorbird Media. The upcoming album follows the band’s acclaimed full-length Darkness Falls On The Edge Of Time and pre-release, fan favorite singles “Phenomenal,” “Success,” and “Golden Limousine” which are available now on all streaming services for any playlist shares.
Golden Dawn Arkestra have also announced a free record release show in Austin at Stubb’s on August 12. The band will also be performing this Friday in Houston at Last Concert Cafe, August 19 at Psycho Las Vegas and announced two festival performances in Quebec. Additional tour dates and festival appearances will be announced in the coming weeks.
On a mission from Ra to spread love, light and tolerance, Golden Dawn Arkestra come in peace. After years living amongst humankind, the band of interstellar sound controllers have channeled their vibrations into songs celebrating and criticizing humanity, its beauty and insanity. Tuned equally to the cosmos as their inner starchild, Golden Dawn Arkestra continues to evolve their sound from roots in afrobeat, world funk and psych punk to fusing adolescent charged discotheque and indulgent nu-wave soundscapes. Well-traveled across several European / South American tours, an eternal search for hot springs and psychonautical journeys, bandleader Topaz “Zapot” McGarrigle, has absorbed countless cultures, genres and philosophies as a constant student of the infinite continuum.
Using the year 2020 pause to take a new approach to songcraft, Topaz collaborated with producer Walker Lukens in various studios to build songs and bring together band members and guest musicians – all contributing to the 80’s electro, funky disco record that was taking shape. Flexing their shared appreciation for the deep cuts and wide world of funk, Lukens and Topaz shaped a sonic sojourn, voyaging from ambient spoken word introludes to nightclub ready bangers and bops.
The Gold Album came together in a time of change, from COVID shifts, to band personnel transitions and the death of a close loved one. The result is a dynamic auditory journey – peaks and valleys, a good and bad trip, which has been so aptly complemented with visuals from director Ben Blanchard. Plotted as a trilogy, the singles “Phenomenal,” “I Deserve Success” and “Join As One” delves the audience further into the cult aesthetic the band has fostered, while modernizing it through phases of infomercial teleschemes, personal and financial motivational speeches and Illuminati allusions. Coalescing all these aesthetics.
Golden Dawn Arkestra Tour Dates:
July 15 – Houston, TX @ Last Concert Cafe
July 22 – Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec @ Le Festif!
July 23 – Montreal, Quebec @ Distorsion Psych Fest
August 12 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s (Record Release Show)
August 19 – Las Vegas, NV @ Psycho Las Vegas
The Gold Album Track List
- Join as One
- Backwards
- Rich Dont Sweat
- Superstar
- Success
- Springtime in Quarantine
- Phenomenal
- Covid Condo
- Near + Far
- Room 909
- Golden Limousine
