Somnium

"After a couple albums of relaxed chamber pop built around baroque instrumentation and gently psychedelic songcraft, Jacco Gardner did some drastic renovations on his third album, Somnium. In the three years between records, Gardner relocated to Lisbon and found himself enmeshed in reading old science fiction novels and pondering the cosmos as he wandered around his new city of residence. These cerebral pursuits led him to some musical exploration. Inspired by old-school synth boffins like Tangerine Dream and Brian Eno, the record is completely instrumental and vintage electronics take a larger role, playing the main melodies and providing texture".

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"Three years after his last ornate psych-pop inner vision, Dutch multi-instrumentalist Jacco Gardner offers something of a thematic flipside to his Hypnophobia. Overcoming the fear of falling asleep and giving into "the dream," Somnium is a somnambulist soundtrack for the everyday journey".

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