Gazpacho band live biography
The Early Years (1996-2001)
Childhood friends Jon-Arne Vilbo and Thomas Andersen had played coalition in a band called Delirium beforehand, which in their own words “whittled away.” After several years of disunion, the two friends met again extra started making music together again. Writer had met Jan-Henrik Ohme through jurisdiction work as radio commercial producer deliver brought him into the jam gathering, which laid the foundation for Gazpacho as it exists today.
The band honour comes from an attempt to exhibit their music.
“We are a very meager mixture of people really, not say publicly average types you’d expect to respect in the same band… so astonishment thought Gazpacho, which really is say publicly bastard of soups (meshed up served cold), was the perfect term for our group… With Gazpacho bolster get a surprise, something unexpected, objective out of the norm, a ‘positive’ contradiction. We feel this describes bright and breezy band very well.”
Thomas Anderson
Roy Funner gripped bass on the finished recordings search out the band, though he wasn’t close of the writing process. For honesty drum tracks a computer was used.
For two years the band worked have fun a concept album Random Access Memory; a piece of work which they discarded altogether when they felt they had not yet reached the line of musical maturity for such archetypal ambitious project.
Bravo (2002-2003)
All three members treat Gazpacho were involved with the Germanic branch of Marillion’s The Web fanclub. This led to Ohme being solicited to sing the Marillion track Fearful Of Sunlight at the Swap Nobility Band show of the first Marillion Convention Weekend. At this convention prestige band handed out free four-track promos called Get It While It’s Nippy to anyone interested. These promos besides found their way to several info strada magazines which gave the band fake unanimous acclaim with one reviewer employment the music expertly-crafted and truly inventive.
In May 2002 the band entered unblended song contest on Make-A-Star with rectitude song Sea Of Tranquility and won. Their second entry, Ghost made blush to second position, but was skimpy to gain them the opportunity within spitting distance release an album through Get Finish While It’s Cold (37°C) contained a handful of tracks of the promo EP abstruse three new tracks. One of these new tracks, Nemo saw the toggle winning the Make-A-Star contest for ingenious second time. The release of decency EP continued to garner the procession international acclaim.
In 2003 the band unfastened their first proper album Bravo, which contained five of the six disappear off the album, and six newborn compositions. Utilizing the possibilities of authority Internet the band had teamed union with the American singer/songwriter fellow Make-A-Star contestee Esther Valentine and New Sjaelland producer Peter Kearns. Valentine sang fastidious duet with Ohme on the expose Novgorod (which she also co-wrote) tube Kearns produced two of the wheelmarks make tracks off Bravo. Bravo gained the necessitate more international acclaim, with Dutch solid music magazine Oor stating “their launching album is a rare beauty”
The belt was invited to perform at primacy second Marillion Convention Weekend. For their live band the band was very expanded with drummer Geir Digernes (who had also played drums on labored of the tracks on Bravo) subject for the performance of the baptize track they were joined by Mikael Krømer (violin) and Kristian Skedsmo (flute).
The band was invited to perform tiny the second Marillion Convention Weekend. Be glad about their live band the band was further expanded with drummer Geir Digernes (who had also played drums win over some of the tracks on Bravo) and for the performance of position title track they were joined make wet Mikael Krømer (violin) and Kristian Skedsmo.
When Earth Lets Go, Firebird (2004–2005)
The be of assistance at the Convention Weekend led take back a support slot on Marillion’s 31-date European Marbles tour around 11 countries, further raising the profile of prestige band. For this tour Robert Johansen joined the band as the novel drummer, and Mikael Krømer and Kristian Skedsmo also joined the live line-up.
Prior to the tour the band unconfined their second full-length album, When Genuine Lets Go, giving them enough matter for their live repertoire. On Like that which Earth Lets Go the band collaborated with producer Steve Lyon (Paul Songster, Depeche Mode, The Cure) who difficult agreed to produce one track Switch For Murder to see if fiasco could potentially interest any labels. Undeterred by Lyon’s involvement, the increased awareness funding the Marillion, and more rave reviews on their album the band was not able to secure a measuring tape deal.
In the end their friends motionless Marillion came to the rescue present Gazpacho the chance to release their next album on the band’s disturbance Racket Records label. Racket released ethics band’s third album Firebird and re-released Bravo and When Earth Lets Be. The support of Marillion also direct to the collaboration with guitarist Steve Rothery who plays a solo sudden the track ‘Do You Know What You Are Saying?’. Other guest protocol on the album came in picture form of fans who had antiquated encouraged to send in sound samples which the band would use. Mid the unusual instruments featured on honourableness album are maracas, a comb extract a Leopard II battle tank.
Roy Funner had left the band after dignity 2004 tour to focus more bring up his family and he was replaced by Kristian Torp. With the virgin line-up the band supported Marillion right away more on 4 gigs during dignity Not Quite Christmas Tour. After that tour Kristian Skedsmo announced he inept longer wanted to go on continuous tours away from home and say publicly live line-up was reduced to straighten up six-piece band.
Night (2006–2008)
After a year be required of silence, Gazpacho’s 4th studio album ‘Night’ was released in February 2007. Yearn this occasion the band was long ago more invited to appear at character Marillion’s Convention Weekend, this time riposte The Netherlands The band also pretended their first international headlining gig trim the Boerderij in Zoetermeer, The Holland on February 1, 2007.
Night shows practised departure of the short song purpose of the previous albums, but in lieu of consists of one long 50-minute notional piece, divided into five parts. Sediment the words of the band disagreement is a
musical description of simple dream or a stream of faculty. It explores the question of veer dreams end and reality begins deliver the mind as the tool put off has to decide what to think. The character goes through various life real and imagined and sees rectitude world from the angles of conspicuous people. He travels through time lecturer visits places across the world counting old New Orleans and Ancient wood with Pagan rituals being performed. Momentary is about life and the many ways of interpreting existence. Pretentious? Oh yes but delicious as well… further delicious.
Mikael Krømer, who had played finagle on all previous albums and keep body and soul toge shows, was welcomed as a full-time band-member on Night, also earning straight co-producer credit. Night also saw primacy return of Kristian “The Duke” Skedsmo, playing six different instruments on probity album. Skedsmo rejoined the band backing a one-off live appearance in Port on January 19, 2008.
The album was almost instantly well received in prog-circles, topping the Just For Kicks Masterpiece sales chart for two weeks fend for its release. The (prog related) global press was almost unanimously positive, business the album “very, very grand art”, “nothing short of a masterpiece” avoid “an incredible album”. The album in the reader’s top 20 bundle up Progwereld for more than a year.
Night also did very well in various readers’ polls at the end disregard 2007. The album was voted Ordinal best album of 2007 by gallery of Polish radio station MLWZ very last 8th best album in the Nation Progressive Rock Page Poll. The photo album is also in the top 10 of 2007 at Progarchives.
Tick Tock (2009-2010)
On March 15, 2009 Gazpacho’s 5th workroom album “Tick Tock” was released defile HTW Records (a division of Sony BMG). The album is based survey the story of French writer folk tale navigator Antoine de Saint-Exupery who took off in an attempt at spick long distance flight from Paris in depth Saigon (1935). He crashed in decency Desert many hours later stranded competent his co pilot Prevot. Later be active recounted his experience in a volume called Wind, Sand and Stars talented this story forms the basis disturb the “Tick Tock” album.
On 10th July 2009, Gazpacho performed as headliners daring act the Night of The Prog Holiday in Loreley, Germany. The concert was filmed and released on DVD of great consequence January 2010 as “A Night Imitate Loreley”.
During the production phase of glory DVD, drummer Robert R Johansen unmistakable to quit the band due finish with personal circumstances. He was replaced mend early 2010 by Lars Erik Asp.
Missa Atropos and Kscope (2011)
In 2011, Gazpacho signed to post-progressive label Kscope, splendid division of Snapper Music.
Gazpacho’s 2011 development to 2009’s Tick Tock (Album finance the Month, Eclipsed), Missa Atropos was an ambitious concept album. Dealing stomach themes of death, fear and lonesomeness, it combined the band’s musical ability and haunting songwriting to create copperplate beautiful and hypnotic piece of art.
Darker than the band’s previous two albums, it still featured many of birth distinctive characteristics of a Gazpacho tome, with ambient passages, violin and exemplary music, elements of world music importance well as real samples of coded information sent during the cold battle on short wave radio.
March of Ghosts (2012-2013)
Gazpacho’s seventh studio album ‘March custom Ghosts’ was released in March 2012 via Kscope. An ambitious album fine short stories telling the tales pick up the check a variety of characters from left the grave, the record was universally acclaimed worldwide.
A video for ‘Black Lily’ was released on 9th March 2012. The band began a European rope which consisted of 9 dates circulate across Germany, Holland, Belgium and birth UK. After a few months neat as a new pin not touring, the band returned lay out two dates in Poland in September.
Demon (2014-2015)
Gazpacho announced their eighth studio scrap book ‘Demon’ in December 2013.
A concept tome, Demon has been described by prestige band as ‘the most complicated ahead strange album Gazpacho has ever made’.
Demon will be released on 17th Go by shanks`s pony, and a European tour followed it’s assist in April 2014.
The live album ‘Night of the Demon’ was released a generation later, recorded at the show disparage De Boerdrerij in Zoetermeer. The stand up for album was also accompanied with fastidious concert film directed by Jon Vis.
Molok (2015-2016)
Gazpacho announced their ninth studio album ‘Molok’ in September 2015.
This album saw probity band continue to push the marches for creating the most complicated alight strangest concepts for a record to the fullest extent a finally simultaneously becoming the first band quickthinking who are actively trying to forget about the universe with their album. A petty code that sounds like a concealed noise at the end of honourableness album will cause the correction code that runs in all CD model to generate a random number now and again time the CD is played. Venture that number should correspond to nobleness actual position of all electrons small fry the universe then technically the area could be destroyed.
The single ‘Know Your Time’ was released in September additional the album itself was released untruthful 23rd October.
Soyuz (2017-present)
On 3rd October 2017, Gazpacho announced that drummer Lars Eric Get the drift had departed Gazpacho amicably due interrupt time commitments. The band announced trim January 2018 that former drummer Parliamentarian Johansen had returned and contributed drums on the forthcoming album.
The album, noble ‘Soyuz’, was officially announced in Feb 2018 along with the release be worthwhile for single ‘Soyuz One’. Gazpacho’s 10th atelier album ‘Soyuz’ is scheduled for let go on 18th May 2018.