Jacco Gardner

Hello, it is I that blogger that blogs once a year, and then tires of it. As of late I am finding more and more to write about because once again after many years of being unsatisfied with new music I feel a rebirth amongst us. Great artists are emerging from the wastes of major record companies and we are ready with willing ears. 

Websites such as bandcamp, songcloud, and MySpace are allowing bands to offer

Music and tour dates free to the public, and you get the choice to listen and then Download at a minimal fee

This post will be about a Dutch musician by the name of Jacco Gardner. This 25 year old multi musician has just released his first record titled Cabinet of Curiosities on Trouble in Mind records, an indie label out of Chicago. Jacco performed all of the instruments on the record himself except for drums but tours with a full on band. 

Jacco brings a sunny 60's psychedelic flavour to the millennium by not sounding like he is stuck in the past but by enhancing the sound with new technology. By using swirling guitars, harpsichord, mellotron, organs, anything you can think of really, and then adding a soft engaging vocal Jacco greats an effective baroque style pop similar to bands like Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, and early David Bowie. 

This is not your contemporary pop record. It is beautiful, full of haunting melody, surreal lyrics and top notch production. Over the course of the twelve tracks the album ebbs and flows like a wonderful daydream. This is an accomplished singer/songwriter/musician , a type of musician a modern label would not touch. However, thanks to social media they are not in charge any more, and great bands and music can be heard through great indie labels such as Trouble on mind. 

Overall 8.5 out of 10

Best tracks:

Clear the air

Puppets dangling

Where will you go

Chameleon

The ballad of little Jane

Cabinet of curiosities can be purchased through trouble in mind records. 

troubleinmindrecs.com