Jacco Gardner Levania

Like a 4 P.M. winter sunset, “Levania,” Jacco Gardner’s lead single off his third record release, Somnium, provides a solely instrumental space rock gloom. A foreboding sound through synthesizers fading in and out of daunting guitar melodies, like Goblin’s original Suspiria soundtrack molded into Gardner’s Canterbury-influenced baroque pop. 

All there is to hear is good; Jacco has created the chain-link to 1960's European rock -- fusing underground Dutch psychedelics, Serge Gainsbourg’s french sensuality, and Selda Bağcan’s heavy guitar riffs. He does this in a way that is not so much a revivalist effort, but a newfound creation of sonic senses that make his independent celestial sound.