Gold Wood, the audio arm of 3 artists
GOLD WOOD is a musical group comprised of 3 artists: CIA, Mars, and urbanyetti.
Label:
Self-Released: Capsized Kepler Records ©2026 / Heart To Live Records ©2024 / Fuck It UP! Records ©2015
Distribution: Paper Garden Records
Genre: Underground Polyelectronic Rock / Experimental Electronic Post Punk
Location: Los Angeles, CA
BIO:
GOLD WOOD is an underground polyelectronic rock brigade from Los Angeles, CA, featuring artists CIA, Mars, and urbanyetti. Poetically borrowing their name from a Jean-Michel Basquiat street art cipher, the band creates all original beat-induced, eclectic soundscapes filled with grit and positive, thought-provoking lyrical messages.
Their massive Experimental Electronic Post Punk rhythmic sound forges a hard-hitting percussion section with hallucinatory and sonically distorted guitars, dense mesmeric bass riffs, and lyrically mesmerizing vocals.
Their upcoming album, GOLD / WOOD — Arm of a Star, drops their first waterfall single, "I Stay Mellow," on July 3. The project is a powerful call for global unity, challenging listeners to look at the world from a harmonious electric polyphonic perspective.
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Inspired by punk, funk, dub, hip hop, psychedelic, indie, electronic, and rock forms in music, GOLD WOOD forges a massive rhythmic sound from all these mega influences in effect.
GOLD WOOD albums are described as beat-induced eclectic soundscapes where the common denominator between tracks is the grit and pow! flowing through each original track. Harmonic electric polyphonism.
The lyrics are positive message forward with a strong cadence for delivering intense thought-provoking verses. Inspired by street art, now-politics, slam poetry and other conscience street lyricisms, where the positive messages are meant to inspire intrinsic conscience-awareness and optimistic perception.
Verses such as, “I Stay Mellow …through thick and thin, through ice and snow, through storm and sorrow,” tell a prophetic realization of keeping cool when things get heated. Or on the track, First Wall, “The leaders mislead us, they try and delete us,” showing a definite rebellion of angst towards being ignored and pushed aside by the establishment. And in Rocker’s Delight, “the difference in seeing, is the difference in being,” says it all, followed by “misperception leads to deception, causes confusion and pain” is systemically pointing out the convoluted downward spiral in current trends and to those leading these trends existing in a state of confusion, causing pain to the world. Shadow Drone articulates “Let it go!”, and in Show Me What You Got the irrefutable realization of “Life is but a dream, Life is but a screen, Life ain’t what it seems”. And in Fistful of Hollers, “Never fake it ‘til I make it, always feel it ‘til I real it, Tathagata Bodhisattva, Supreme Being it” reminds us all to be who we are, not to be afraid of those supposedly in control because in reality …no one’s in control. In the end, there’s only what is seen of the mind itself.
The band’s name is borrowed from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s inimitable NYC street performance in the movie, Downtown 81, where the imminent famous artist is filmed spray-painting a defiant message on the side of a Cadillac with the phrase “GOLD WOOD”. According to the film’s producer, Maripol, she tells GW band member Mars $$$ during their conversation at Delicious Pizza in Los Angeles, the use of “GOLD WOOD” is Basquiat’s poetic street lyricism, his cipher and play-on-words for “Money”, as in dollar bills made from paper that comes from trees (WOOD), then given value by society, and then this paper is now turned into money (GOLD).
The band is gearing-up for their up and coming release of the new independently produced album: GOLD WOOD - Arm of a Star with their first single releasing July 3!
Arm of a Star was originally released as part of a “two-albums-in-one” release titled, GOLD WOOD IV - Upside Down the Arm of a Star | The End War Album. This was the band’s culmination of various studio recording works, remastered, remixed, and reimagined as one positive thought-provoking theme: ––being here on this Earth now without the need for killing each other or warring to survive. Unity and harmony will prove ultimately more successful. End War NOW!
“Upside Down the Arm of a Star” means to see the world from a different perspective. A star is a beacon of hope–a shining light that guides the way. It's a symbol of positivity, happiness or renewal. To be upside down means to be confused; muddled; topsy-turvy, in an upside-down world. By making yourself upside down in an upside-down world, is to flip your perspective positively. Turn it right-side UP!
Truly independent artists, GOLD WOOD releases music through their own imprint Capsized Kepler Records in a global label-services partnership with Paper Garden Records, maintaining 100% full control of the creative process and all original content.
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Front Brigade: CIA
Secondary Artillery: Mars $$$ and urbanyetti
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GW Patch by Ben Venom