Norwegian Progressive Rock Groups - Gazpacho, Madrugada, Wobbler, White Willow, Visekongene, Circles End (Paperback)

Chapters: Gazpacho, Madrugada, Wobbler, White Willow, Visekongene, Circles End. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gazpacho are an Art rock band from Oslo, Norway. The original core band of Jan-Henrik Ohme (vocals), Jon-Arne Vilbo (guitars) and Thomas Andersen (keyboards, programming, producer) started making music together in 1996 and the band has since expanded with Mikael Kromer (violin, co-producer), Robert Risberget Johansen (drums) and Kristian Torp (bass). Gazpacho's music has been described by one critic as being "classical post ambient nocturnal atmospheric neo-progressive folk world rock" . The music has been compared to A-ha, Radiohead, Marillion and Porcupine Tree. Without the backing of a major label, Gazpacho is one of many bands now utilizing the resources of the Internet to create word of mouth promotional opportunities, with a reliance on their website and its forum, online shopping, MySpace and other 'net initiatives to spread the word. This allows the band to hold down full time jobs, yet still manage to release an album a year with total artistic control over their compositions and distribution. Childhood friends Jon-Arne Vilbo and Thomas Andersen had played together in a band called Delerium before, which in their own words "whittled away." After several years of separation the two friends met again and started making music together again. Andersen had met Jan-Henrik Ohme through his work as radio commercial producer and brought him in to the jam sessions, which lay the foundation for Gazpacho as it exists today. The band name comes from an attempt to describe their music. Andersen: "We are a very unlikely mixture of people really, not the average types you'd expect to see in the same band so we thought Gazpacho, which really...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=966648