![]() “I had lots of Jamaican friends of mine and a mentor of mine John Godard – who died recently. The group was playing so often that they were lacking the time to put together new material, and they decided to take some time off, which paralleled the closure of the Reservoir.Įven though Gisto had taken the stage around town after the closure of Reservoir, he gained a lot of popularity for his annual Bob Marley birthday bash, which takes place tomorrow night at Spiritbar.Īfter the release of his first album, Gisto found himself travelling to Jamaica to further his reggae education. It was an awesome night, but it became a bit over saturated to the point where instead of waking up where I was like ‘Yah! We’re playing music tonight!’ I was like ‘Oh no, we’re playing music tonight!” said Gisto. “That was sort of the deciding moment when I was like maybe this is something I should focus on a little more,” said Gisto.Īfter The Wild Nectar closed the group became a strictly reggae band and began taking the stage at the former Reservoir. ![]() The group had a decent following where the crowd would sit and listen, but when the group started to play reggae songs the dance floor would fill up. “We were jazz nerds so we were trying out all our new jam band style stuff, until one day when finally the reggae music was starting to seep into me more and more I said ‘why don’t we try a couple reggae songs next week?’” “We would play there every Thursday and we were doing our own jazz thing,” he said. He was playing with friends at what used to be The Wild Nectar (which is now Busaba). While on stage with Wassabi, Gisto was also performing on his own. “When I was playing with these different bands I was always learning these reggae songs.” “It just sort of happened where I always loved reggae from when I listened to Bob Marley and Peter Tosh,” he said. I decided OK I’m going to go to BC.”Įven though Gisto has fallen into the world of reggae both as part of Wassabi Collective and in his own solo music, it wasn’t a genre he had always been involved in. It was this oasis you hear about somewhere beyond the mountains. “I can’t believe how time flies,” he told this week. But now Gisto has embraced a new chapter in his career, which has taken him to Jamaica and now to Vancouver. He made the pilgrimage with Kangaroo (his band at the time) and since joined Wassabi Collective. The past few years, Gisto has been bringing his latest album “Relief” to life with the help of diverse range of talented Vancouver musicians called “The Grateful Living.” By mixing reggae, hip hop, and Afro-beat, and an occasional psychedelic jam, dancers are taken on an uplifting spiritual journey.It’s been 11 years since Gisto arrived in Nelson from London, Ontario. By combining the sounds of Reggae, Dancehall, Pop, Dub, and Hip Hop with his smooth one of a kind vocal styling, he creates a sound that is uniquely his own. ![]() ![]() He is changing the sound of music one song at a time. ![]() However, Gisto is more than a Reggae artist/producer. He is currently in the prime of his writing/producing career, having recent collaborations with names such as Sizzla, Lutan Fyah, Egyptian and Capleton. Within about two weeks on the island, Gisto went from a stranger to a recognised musical personality on Jamaican television. He arrived with no hotel, no contacts and no idea what he would find there – just a desire to connect with the music and culture that influenced his life. In 2011, Gisto made his first journey to the Fatherland of Reggae Music: Jamaica. ![]()
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