GAZPACHO - MISSA ATROPOS (2016 REISSUE/2010 ALBUM/DIGI-PAK)

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The band’s 2010 studio album was their 6th, 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…

The follow-up to 2009’s amazing ‘Tick Tock’ album, ‘Missa Atropos’ is an ambitious concept album. When It was originally released in the UK early in 2011, GAZPACHO had already become one of CDS Towers’ best selling bands on import via their earlier releases! It was their first album to get a release here and since then they have become an established Prog / Art-Rock band on our shores and they remain even bigger still over Europe!

Dealing with themes of death, fear and loneliness, it combines the band’s musical skills and haunting songwriting to create a beautiful and hypnotic piece of art. Darker than the band’s previous two albums, it still features many of the distinctive characteristic’s of a GAZPACHO album, with awe-inspiring synth and guitar melodies, ambient atmospheric passages with violin and some classical music touches, as well as elements of world music and some real samples of coded information sent during the cold war on short wave radio.

‘Missa Atropos’ was created as another album in the style of the series of films without pictures that GAZPACHO started back in 2007 with the magnificent: ‘Night’ album - In other words, a concept album intended to give the listener a chance to take some time off from the world, and that it certainly does!
As with all GAZPACHO albums there are some real “WOW” moments coming out of this record - fantastic, dreamy instrumental work that seems to arrive from nowhere and just take you over!
“A delightfully mellifluous selection. They won’t be Norway’s best kept secret much longer” – Jerry Ewing, Classic Rock Prog.

Also available by GAZPACHO in this re-issue series…
BRAVO CD - Stock # 1897100
WHEN EARTH LETS GO CD - Stock # 1897833
FIREBIRD CD - Stock # 1897121
DEMON CD - Stock # 1897832
MARCH OF GHOSTS CD - Stock # 1855345

‘Missa Atropos’ was released on 16th April 2016.

GAZPACHO: MISSA ATROPOS Track List:

01. Mass For Atropos - I (1:43)
02. Defense Mechanism (6:29)
03. I Was Never Here (3:12)
04. Snail (3:39)
05. River (6:07)
06. Mass For Atropos - II {You’re Going To Die Up There} (2:37)
07. Missa Atropos (8:25)
08. She’s Awake (3:42)
09. Vera (7:26)
10. Will To Live (3:07)
11. Mass For Atropos - III (1:39)
12. Splendid Isolation (8:33)
13. An Audience (2:52)

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