GAZPACHO - FIREBIRD (2016 REISSUE/2005 ALBUM/DIGI-PAK)

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Out of print for a considerable time, their 2005 3rd album is thankfully now available once more on CD in 2016, and it has been 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…

‘Firebird’ is another concept album with some great moments to savour, and again comparisons to: RADIOHEAD, MUSE and Hogarth fronted MARILLION surface once more. Continuing down the same melancholic alternative rock route and the first two albums, GAZPACHO further hone their sound into what their fans know and love today.
This is a band capable of creating emotional and sentimental reactions - Mellow alternative rock with excellent writing and playing, with a lead vocalist that really does wear his heart on his sleeve.
The album is topped off by a show stealing guitar solo from MARILLION’s Steve Rothery on the track: ‘Once In A Lifetime’, a track that provides a typically melancholic ending to the album.

The 2005 GAZPACHO line-up was: Jan-Henrik Ohme (vocals), Jon-Arne Vilbo (guitars), Thomas Andersen (keyboards & programming) and Robert Johansen (drums), with guest: Kristian Torp (bass), Mikael Krømer (violin), Steve Rothery (MARILLION - guitar), Nina Mortvedt and Line Bekkelund (both backing vocals)

Also available by GAZPACHO in this re-issue series…
BRAVO CD - Stock # 1897100
WHEN EARTH LETS GO CD - Stock # 1897833
MISSA ATROPOS CD - Stock # 1855346
DEMON CD - Stock # 1897832
MARCH OF GHOSTS CD - Stock # 1855345

‘Firebird’ is released on 30th September 2016.

GAZPACHO: FIREBIRD Track List:

01. Vulture (5:45)
02. Symbols (4:05)
03. Swallow (5:40)
04. Orion I (5:21)
05. Orion II (3:04)
06. Prisoner (4:15)
07. Jezebel (4:19)
08. Black Widow (4:28)
09. Firebird (5:22)
10. Do You Know What You Are Saying? (6:23)
11. Once In A Lifetime (5:22)

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