{"id":638,"date":"2015-09-17T11:51:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T10:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2015-09-17T11:57:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T10:57:37","slug":"jacco-gardner-the-louisiana-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Jacco Gardner \u2013 The Louisiana, Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dutch psych whizz-kid still on the road<\/strong>
\nThe Lousiana, Bristol, 16\/09\/2015<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s four months since Jacco Gardner\u2019s Hynophobia<\/em> was released. Some felt it was a triumphant, galvanising follow-up to his much-loved debut, A Cabinet Of Curiosities<\/em>, others that it was strangled by a lack of stylistic diversity. What\u2019s beyond doubt is that the live Jacco experience has improved enormously since your correspondent witnessed an awkward, charisma-free appearance 18 months ago.<\/p>\n

With his band now expanded to a five-piece, Jacco is relieved of many of the keyboard duties that kept him static and disengaged on stage. Indeed, even in the dingy surroundings of The Louisiana\u2019s tiny upstairs room, the players positively shine as they dutifully work their way through much of both albums. \u2018Clear The Air\u2019 (was it really three years ago?) appears second in the set, instantly familiarising audience and band with each other. There\u2019s little deviation from the recorded versions throughout, until the spirit of UFO (or should that be Melkweg?) is set free on a spirited, extended freak-out at show\u2019s end. You can see the grins broadening as the escape valves are opened.<\/p>\n

While some of the nuances of Jacco\u2019s dreamy baroque psychedelia may be lost in a live setting, previously undetected references emerge. For the first time I noticed shades of his Dutch forebears The Outsiders\u2019 masterful CQ<\/em> in the intricately picked guitars and muted toms, while the myriad keyboard sounds \u2013 particularly the electric harpsichord and Jacco\u2019s beloved mini-Korg synth \u2013 evoked The Left Banke, Lothar & The Hand People and echoes of Odessey & Oracle<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be interesting to see where Jacco and his band of merry minstrels go on album number three. Some surprises would be nice.<\/p>\n

Andy Morten<\/strong><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dutch psych whizz-kid still on the road The Lousiana, Bristol, 16\/09\/2015 It\u2019s four months since Jacco Gardner\u2019s Hynophobia was released. Some felt it was a triumphant, galvanising follow-up to his much-loved debut, A Cabinet Of Curiosities, others that it was strangled by a lack of stylistic diversity. What\u2019s beyond doubt is that the live Jacco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs-shows","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}