Description
Noon Garden is an exotic psych-pop odyssey from one of the founding members of Flamingods. Drawing on worldly sounds from the likes of Francis Bebey and Dur Dur Band to Shintaro Sakamoto, tearing up the sonic rule book and conjuring up a distant land where you find yourself cutting loose to grooves that meander their way through a wide spectrum of African disco, funk, exotica and psychedelia. Noon Garden says of the album: “This debut was an experiment to get to know myself better. Taken from the name of an area not too far from my family home in Norwood south London, the literal words Beulah Spa conjured up imagery of being a place to contemplate in warmth and complete tranquility. Writing music is a therapeutic process for me and its taken about eight years on and off to finish this album by myself, to try understand what it was exactly that I wanted to say lyrically and explore sonically. The albums lyrics have shape-shifted so much with time but they take a curious look at the human experience; in my case growing up and soaking up a lot of cultures from an early age in the Middle East, the UK and briefly in Singapore. Its a reflection on whats past and whats yet to come, my connection with others over the years and how that inevitably shapes your outlook on whats around you. All of this told through the lens of psychedelia which has always given me a sense of possibility. Beulah Spa is the first marker of where Ive gotten to so far in my life, channeling it all into a musical odyssey that lays the foundation for a lot more to come.
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