Fool’s Gold Fuse African Rhythm, Indie Rock

If you’re feeling blue about the end of summer, we have some radio sunshine to cheer you up. The band Fool’s Gold have just released their self-titled debut record. It’s a mix of African guitars, hand-clapping rhythms, and Hebrew lyrics.

You can call it world music, indie rock, afro-pop - but when a French television reporter asked the members of Fool’s Gold how they describe their music, they said it’s just "hot weather music." Guitarist Lewis Pesacov and singer and bassist Luke Top join us to bring some of their southern California sunshine to New England.

We hear a bit of the Congolese-inspired "Surprise Hotel" as well as "Nadine," which has more of an Ethiopian sensibility, and one of your songs that switches between English and Hebrew lyrics. And we talk about the birth of a second generation of American musicians inspired by American "world music" - kids who grew up in homes with Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon on the stereo in the '80s, now reinventing it again and making it their own.