Rather
than a band, we had Dutch solo performer Jacco Gardner
as our “Artiste of the Week” in this edition
of Technicolour Dreaming. Regular listeners will be aware that we have featured
his music quite frequently since we first heard his “Clear
the Air” single early last year, the song later appearing on his excellent
debut album “Cabinet of Curiosities”. Whilst
clearly in thrall to 60’s psychedelic pop, Jacco
has managed to create his own inspired take on the genre, letting the strength
of his song writing shine through – like his predecessors, he sure knows how to
write a catchy pop song with twists and unexpected turns a-plenty. Wonderful
music.... and his ever-growing renown is well-deserved – hopefully he’ll bring
his band on tour to Australia soon! Also featured again this week was the UK
record label Fruits de Mer, including tracks
by FdM stalwarts such as Spain’s excellent Stay and Welsh outfit Schnauser
amongst others, the two mentioned above taken from the latest promo
sampler “Friends of the Fish vol. 1” which
reminds us of the diversity of the label’s output and which we’ll certainly be
plundering over coming months – great stuff! Also played this week were new tracks
from Espectrostatic, Sky
Picnic and Dodson & Fogg [featuring
the Young Ones’ Nigel
Planer] plus a few ‘blasts from
the past’ by the likes of the
Sorrows, Holland’s After Tea, the United States of America and Peru’s We All Together doing a Badfinger
cover, taken from their sole 1972 LP.
There
was much more of course, as always, so until next week.....
..... here is the playlist with some associated clips, plus a
short film of the famous 1964 LSD debate at MiT featuring Dr Timothy Leary.... Enjoy!
After Tea –
The Time is Nigh (7” single
b-side [to Not Just a flower in Your Hair]
1967 Netherlands)
Lumerians – Xulux (“Transmalinnia”
2013 USA)
David Crosby – Song With No Words [Tree With No
Leaves] (”If I Could Only Remember My Name...” LP 1971 USA)
Stay – If I Needed Someone [Beatles
cover] (“Mersey Dream” EP 2013 Spain)
Jason Crest – Black
Mass (7”single b-side [to A Place in the Sun] 1969 Kent, UK)
Espectrostatic – Escape from
Witchtropolis (“Escape from
Witchtropolis” 2014 Austin, Texas, USA)
Paul Messis –
Nightmares (7”single 2014 UK)
Soft Walls – Won’t Remember My Name
(“No Time” 2014 USA)
the United States of America – The American Metaphysical
Circus (“The United States
of America” LP 1968)
Schnauser – Westward Ho!
(“Where Business
Meets Fashion” 2013 Wales, UK – taken from Fruits de Mer Records promo-CD compilation “friends of the fish –
a first collection” 2014 UK)
Sendelica – Hard Coming Love [United
States of America cover] (recorded
2014 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles
box-set 2014 UK)
Kaleidoscope – Flight From
Ashiya (7”single 1967 UK)
White Sails – The
Answer (“White Sails EP” 2013
USA/Finland)
the Californians – The Cooks of Cake and Kindness (7”single b-side [to Mandy]1969 UK)
### “Artiste
of the Week” – Jacco Gardner
###
Jacco Gardener – Puppets
Dangling (“Cabinet of
Curiosities” 2013 Netherlands)
Jacco Gardener – End of
August (7”single 2013
Netherlands)
Jacco Gardener – Clear the
Air (“Cabinet of
Curiosities” 2013 Netherlands)
Jacco Gardener – Always on My
Mind [Billy Nicholls
cover] (“Trouble in Mind
Records presents: Record Store Day 2013 4-Way Covers Split 7 inch” compilation
EP [with Maston, MMOSS, and the Resonars] 2013 USA/Netherlands)
Skull Cave –
Acid Tone (CD-single 2014 Perth,
Australia)
Miss Elm –
Facebook Never Lies (“Hybrid” EP 2014 Queensland, Australia)
New Electric Ride
– The Beyond (“Balloon Age” 2014 UK)
the Psychedelic
Schafferson Jetplane – Blessings from the Reptiles [Diego] (“Psychedelic
Schafferson Jetplane” 2010 Chile)
Maston –
Strange Rituals (“Shadows” 2014 Los Angeles, USA)
We All Together
– It’s a Sin to Go Away [Badfinger cover] (“We
All Together” LP 1972 Peru)
Dodson & Fogg
(feat. Nigel Planer) – Entrepreneur in
the Garden (“In A Strange Slumber” 2014 UK)
the Sorrows –
You’ve Got What I Want (7”single
1966 UK)
Sky Picnic –
Upon Further Reflection (“Her Dawn Wardrobe” 2014 Brooklyn, New
York, USA)
plus....
Timothy Leary 1964
debate link - http://www.openculture.com/2014/09/the-historic-lsd-debate-at-mit.html
