GAZPACHO - MARCH OF GHOSTS (2016 REISSUE/2012 ALBUM/DIGI-PAK)
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The band’s 2012 studio album was their 7th, and it has now been repackaged in a Digi-Pak in 2016 and given Mid-Price status!
GAZPACHO is one of the finest and most unique bands we have come across in many years!
Now firm favourites with CDS customers too, they are an amazing Norwegian Progressive / Art-Rock band playing music styled very much in the crossover field between MARILLION and RADIOHEAD. Their sound is dark and haunting but mellow and melodic and always heavily steeped in atmosphere.
GAZPACHO was originally formed in Oslo in 1996 by childhood friends Jon-Arne Vilbo and Thomas Andersen, along with Jan-Henrik Ohme (later joined by Mikael Krømer, Lars Eric Asp and Kristian Torp). Between 2003 and 2016 the band have released 9 Studio and 3 ‘Live’ Albums. Their first four releases were originally self-released until ‘Tick Tock’ came along in 2009 when it was a Sony Europe release, giving it a wider reach over Europe.
Prior to ‘Tick Tock’ the band had only very limited mail-order distribution in the UK through MARILLION’s Racket Records, and they were largely unavailable anywhere else in the UK until CDS Towers got to work and heavily promoted them via our mail-order operation. After recommending the band to our contact at Snapper/K-Scope Records, GAZPACHO were subsequently signed to K-Scope in 2010, and the label gave them an international release with their 2011 album: ‘Missa Atropos’. By 2016 several more Studio and ‘Live’ albums have been issued by K-Scope, plus a budget ‘Introducing’ sampler in 2015 to aid expanding their audience further.
Now in 2016 the label are issuing the remainder of the bands’ early albums that are as yet unreleased in the UK, alongside Mid-Price re-issues of some of the later GAZPAGHO albums that K-Scope have previously made available here in limited formats. This album is part of that batch of 2016 releases…
‘March Of Ghosts’ is the band’s follow-up to ‘Missa Atropos’, which was released in 2011 along with the ‘live’ album, ‘London’, which was recorded on the band’s recent European tour and the success of this tour helped provide the genesis for ‘March Of Ghosts’, as Jon-Arne explains: “the previous tour gave us lots of inspiration. So, the week after returning we went straight into the studio to capture whatever came. As a result, the majority of the album was written in a day writing orgy where Mikael, Thomas and I got together and jammed for a full day and night… ‘March Of Ghosts’ was surprisingly easy to write.”
Such was the success of these early sessions that a lot of the material that can be heard on the final album comes from this original jam session. This material was then honed, dissected and refined throughout the summer and autumn of 2011 to create a coherent whole.
While ‘Missa Atropos’ can be viewed as a concept album, following the story of one person leaving everything behind, Thomas says ‘March Of Ghosts’ is much more as a collection of short tales; “The idea was to have the lead character spend a night where all these ghosts (dead and alive) would march past him to tell their stories.”
Characters include Haitian war criminals, the crew of the Marie Celeste, a returning American WWI soldier who finds himself in 2012, and the ghost of an English comedy writer who was wrongly accused of treason and who will sit for eternity listening to gramophone recordings of the broadcasts he did on enemy radio. As lead singer Jan-Henrik explains: “They are short stories. They are a march of ghosts. They are tales that need to be told.”
Also available by GAZPACHO in this re-issue series…
BRAVO CD - Stock # 1897100
WHEN EARTH LETS GO CD - Stock # 1897833
FIREBIRD CD - Stock # 1897121
MISSA ATROPOS CD - Stock # 1855346
DEMON CD - Stock # 1897832
‘March Of Ghosts’ is released on 30th September 2016.
GAZPACHO: MARCH OF GHOSTS Track List:
01. Monument (2:06)
02. Hell Freezes Over – I (5:46)
03. Hell Freezes Over – II (4:37)
04. Black Lily (4:58)
05. Gold Star (4:15)
06. Hell Freezes Over – III (2:37)
07. Mary Celeste (5:44)
08. What Did I Do? (4:19)
09. Golem (5:11)
10. Dumb (4:34)
11. Hell Freezes Over – IV (6:11)
TPT – 50:17