Get
on your (white) bicycle and ride! Introspective psychedelia at its
finest!
Anyone who's ever
searched for original psychedelic-era vinyl on Ebay will know that to
acquire such artefacts you need a bank loan or a lottery win.
There's a good reason for this - a lot of the records were bloody
great, and continue to fascinate and garner new generations of fans
to this day. A lot cheaper, yet no less psychedelic or impressive, is
this debut album from Dutch psych-wonderkid Jacco Gardner.
Gardner's previous two
singles, 'Clear The Air' and 'Where Will You Go' (both included here)
raised eyebrows and expectations last year, and this hotly
anticipated long-player does not disappoint. Gardner plays all the
instruments on the album, except drums which are expertly played by
Jos van Tol. With baroque arrangements of harpsichord, flutes,
analogue keyboards and strings, the effect is authentically
reverential to the music of the late '60s, yet somehow feels right
for now, like a great lost record who's time has finally come.
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