Gitkin: Golden Age
Gitkin: Golden Age
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Gitkin
Label: Wonderwheel
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 674276984281
Genre: International
Brian J. Gitkin returns to Wonderwheel Recordings with Golden Age, a ten-song showcase of the latest evolution of his lyrical guitar-driven sound. Exploring the endless expanses of cumbia, North African, and Middle Eastern music, the guitarist has increasingly brought his own personality to these traditions, creating a lively interplay between distant modes and rhythms and his own New Orleans-steeped sound. While Brian J's an accomplished vocalist and bandleader (Cedric Burnside, Corey Henry, Pimps Of Joytime, etc), the Gitkin project has always been a space to delve into wordless, instrumental moods and melodies, and this latest iteration has taken that homegrown, yet far-reaching sound to it's next level. Golden Age is unmistakably a product of the Crescent City. There's a swampy, subtropical feel to each of the ten compositions, to be sure. But there's also a rhythmic and percussive drive that is characteristic of the best New Orleans music, whether that be the funk of the Meters or the hoodoo vibes of Dr. John, both of which faintly echo through Gitkin's music. Check out "Go Time," a bouncy stomp with an organ solo by Palestinian keyboardist Simon Moushabeck that could've just as easily come from Art Neville or Booker T. Jones. Or "Ninth Ward Grind," with drummer Washington Duke's second-line backbeat and what Brian J. calls "this home-on-the-range western twang that keeps making it's way into my sound." "Delta Mystic," a cosmic disco-gone-bayou, has a title calling to mind the gris-gris carrying Voodoo practitioners of the area but adds a vintage Rhythm Ace drum machine to the mix that J.J. Cale would be proud of.
Tracks:
1.1 High Noon
1.2 Cumbia-Ya
1.3 Delta Mystic
1.4 Iced Coffee
1.5 Go Time
1.6 Ninth Ward Grind
1.7 El Gran Camino
1.8 The One
1.9 Tall Oaks Drive
1.10 Golden Age (FT. Assaf Spector)
