It seems hard to imagine that a staple of eighteenth-century classical music—the harpsichord—would end up being a key player in the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, but if you’ve ever heard Ray Davies or Rod Argent have their way with the instrument, it’s kind of hard to imagine it being better-used anywhere else.
Jacco Gardner knows all about that, and even though the harpsichord has fallen by the wayside in more modern times, the Dutch baroque pop experimentalist featured it heavily on his 2013 debut, Cabinet of Curiosities.
The curiosities continued today with the release of the single “Find Yourself,” a wonderfully hypnotic journey into Gardner’s mind—a place where the titular question doesn’t seem to be figurative so much as it’s just straightly literal: Do you know where you are right now, Jacco?
Regardless, you can at least know where to find him on May 5 when his second album Hypnophobia comes out on Polyvinyl Records, and performing in the U.S. throughout March (including Burgerama and our very own FLOODfest at SXSW). Check out all the information on that below.
Hypnophobia tracklist
1. Another You
2. Grey Lanes
3. Brightly
4. Find Yourself
5. Face To Face
6. Outside Forever
7. Before The Dawn
8. Hypnophobia
9. Make Me See
10. All Over
Jacco Gardner tour dates
March
14 – Denton, TX – Denton Music Festival
16 – Austin, TX – Hotel Vegas (Do512 SXSW Party)
18 – Austin, TX – Dutch Impact on Cedar St (Dutch Impact SXSW Party, 11am)
18 – Austin, TX – Waterloo Records
19 – Austin, TX – Flamingo Cantina (Under The Radar SXSW Party)
19 – Austin, TX – Hotel Vegas (Austin Psych Fest SXSW Party,4:15pm)
19 – Austin, TX – Cheer Up Charlie’s (Polyvinyl SXSW Showcase, 9pm)
20 – Austin, TX – Hotel Vegas (Panache SXSW Showcase, 11:25pm)
21 – Austin, TX – Hotel Vegas (Burgerama SXSW Party, 3:30pm)
21 – Austin, TX – Spider House (Panache SXSW RAGER, 6pm)
22 – Austin, TX – Beerland (Panache SXSW Hangover Party, 6pm)
25 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
26 – Santa Cruz, CA – Catalyst Atrium
27 – San Diego, CA – The Casbah
28 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
29 – Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory (Burgerama IV)
Hypnophobia is out May 5 via Polyvinyl.
