Jacky Giordano - 1976 - Pop In... Devil'S Train

Jacky Giordano 

1976

Pop In... Devil'S Train

01. Betelgueuze In The Sky

02. Moving Grooving

03. The Big Mameluk

04. Terefic War

05. Tchu Tchu Face

06. Bombe Hachée

07. Worry For Nothing

08. Devil's Train

09. Sex Girl

10. Tabla Minor

11. Dont Be Cool

12. Blue Circuit

An aura of mystery hangs over Jacky Giordano, a studio musician who has mostly worked for library music.He is the one behind the amazing label Freesound (Schifter, Philopsis, Challenger), but as well on Montparnasse 2000 with Pop in Devil’s Train (reissued on Le Tres Groove Club), on Timing (Timing Nº1 and Timing Nº5, under the nickname Jacky Nodaro), on Musax with Boucles Rythmiques (under the nickname Joachim Sherylee, reissued as well on Le Tres Groove Club) or Black Devil Disco Club whose paternity for this record is still disputed between him and Bernard Fevre.

Jacky Giordano wasn’t an altar boy, far from it, and will have sadly been more known for his troubles with justice than for his music.This is his work for the label l’Illustration Musicale (IM) which can now be rediscovered thanks to this new reissue on Le Tres Groove Club.Organ Plus (IM26) is the sequel to Organ (IM 24), also reissued by Le Tres Groove Club. The title is misleading here, an organ not being preponderant part of the record which honours the Fender Rhodes, string machine, bass synth and clavinet. ‘Be Careful’, ‘Riffologic’, ‘Twillight’ : Jacky Giordano offers slow tempo jazz-funk, without losing his melancholy and low-fi groove that make his tracks immediately recognisable regardless the record label or nickname.

At the age of 17, Jacky was already doing sessions for the greatest. In the 70's, he was composer for the Crazy Horse Saloon and manager of a musical company. In 1977, he directs the orchestra for "Turbulences" by Eddie Warner & Lalo Shiffrin. In the 80's, two of the albums he has worked on are certified gold in the USA : Géraldine Hunt and Fantasy. Jacky has also composed musics for the Alcazar cabaret and produced more than 300 albums. "Pop in…devil's train" released in 1976 for Montparnasse 2000 is a tribute to funk & soul music...

One of the funkiest records of the French scene of the 70s – a now-legendary sound library album from Jacky Giordano – and one that's filled with amazing keyboards throughout! Jacky stars with grooves that are like some of the best Lalo Schfrin crime/cop modes of the early 70s – then adds in all these excellent keyboard lines, plus a bit of jazz – with some cuts that have warm Rhodes-like lines, others with a spacier moogier groove – all instrumental, and all wonderfully funky! There's a developed depth to the record that goes way beyond just riffing on a groove – a richness that almost puts some of the best cuts at the level of longer CTI keyboard jazz.