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“Caved in myself, paper tower, star ask… Light born, lifeboat sailor,” Jan-Henrik Ohme of Norwegian atmospheric rock six-piece GAZPACHO kicks off what is the group’s eleventh studio album in seventeen years. Fireworker arrived on September 18th via Kscope , and it feels like the most personal GAZPACHO album by far, serving as a tribute to band members’ personalities while capturing their journey as a very prolific outfit over the last two decades.

“It is definitely the most personal album as we decided to dive right into the material and stop worrying what anyone would think of us and it,” keyboardist Thomas Andersen admits. “We have been doing that all along but in the beginning, there was always a sense of ‘is this too complicated’ or ‘will people get this’, but in the end, we just started letting the songs and the subject dictate what they wanted and the rest came naturally. As musicians, we develop all the time and as we have been GAZPACHO -ing for so long we have a natural way of knowing what kind of instrumental work a GAZPACHO song needs. It flows very naturally these days.”

Fireworker was born from the idea that at the deepest level we are all controlled by the life-force that has reproduced successfully since the origin of life and resides in us for the short duration of our lives. Andersen goes on saying, “as it has survived and made it all the way up to the present we believe that this probably is something stronger and harder than we like to think and that our belief in our control of our actions and our free will is an illusion.”

GAZPACHO ’s idea was to make an album where the listener could enter into his or her own mind and try to confront the idea of this thing and see how much hold it has over their daily actions and strongly held beliefs. “Also an exploration of what you think is important versus what it thinks is important is an interesting exercise and probably a very healthy one,” Andersen says. “As it probably (who really knows?) is more ‘animal-like’ than what we think of as human, maybe music is a way to reach the parts of the mind that words can not and make this a safer way of exploring this very dangerous entity.”

The creative process for Fireworker hasn’t changed a lot comparing with GAZPACHO ‘s previous albums, but it certainly differed from the rest of the group’s large body of work. As Thomas says, “all our albums have been written the same way as we start with the music and let the concept form itself during the year or two of writing the album. Once the concept is clear we usually rewrite and rearrange the music to create the finished album. With Fireworker the process was somewhat different as we originally started out trying to write about Henrik Ibsen ’s play Little Eyolf but abandoned that idea once we realised that we weren’t adding anything to it that Ibsen hadn’t already done a thousand times better! The raw force of the sexuality and hatred in the parents of Eyolf – which I encourage everyone to read as it is a masterpiece – got us thinking about the force of sexuality and aggression, and how it makes us do things that go against our wishes and interest. This was the first time the idea of the thing that chemically controls our brain was born and it grew from there into the monster it became.”

On Fireworker GAZPACHO tackle themes that most of us can relate to just by letting life does its thing. Andersen comments, “ Space Cowboy  is about exploring the mind and setting off into the darkness. The mind is visualised as a cave system so vast that it can not be mapped, and somewhere in there the ‘animal/fireworker’ lives like a dragon in its lair. The choirs are the collected voices of the consciousness trying to warn the main character not to go any further into the cave as it is a dangerous place. It was very much inspired by long time nuclear waste warning messages as they were written to be understandable for later and maybe more primitive people and seem to mirror the way our legends, folk stories, fairy tales, and religious texts work. All of these seem to communicate to deeper parts of the mind.”

About songs that come after the opening monster, Andersen follows up by saying, “ Hourglass  is the song of the ghosts of the billions of creatures who contributed to the DNA inside us and how they were all used by the Fireworker through natural selection to better itself. Fireworker , the song, is a nod to how it seems that older cultures and religions knew about this creature and in this case, he is portrayed as Papa Legba , a Haitian Vodoo intermediary between God and humanity or in our case here, the Fireworker and the consciousness. It is also meant to be a bit of fun and we must not forget that the Fireworker within us is part of what makes us exciting as people. How boring would we be without our crazy sex schemes and power games and general stupidity?

“ Antique  is about the total loss involved in accepting that we do not have any control over ourselves and our actions. We are only floating downstream in the river that doesn’t end, pawns in the self-improvement scheme of something else. It hints that our lives are wasted serving this ‘something else.’ Sapien  is the final meeting with the Fireworker itself and is a discussion on how it is impossible to live without it. In the song, it mentions how it was the Fireworker who provided the strength, the character needed at key moments in his life. It also finishes saying that what we see as our identity means nothing to the Fireworker who has no concept of shame or even a name.”

Fireworker is GAZPACHO’s 11th studio album since 2003 what certainly speaks a lot about how creative you are. What is the most important thing for you as musicians and as a collective when it comes to creative renewal between the records?

Thomas Andersen: As long as the songs are allowed to be what they want to be, creativity takes care of itself. I am always scared to think too deeply about where it comes from as it might go away like a shy animal. I must say however that since 2003 with the advent of streaming platforms, such as Spotify, access to interesting music from all over the world has exploded and it is a boost to the system to hear it all.

I used to trawl Napster for albums like “Nomadic tribal chanting of Canadian tribes” but as I am sure you can imagine it was slim pickings! Now it is a different world. Also, as my daughter is 13, I hear a lot of newer music that I would never seek out and listen to such as Kpop (horrible) and similar generic pop. All is good meat for the pot.

What evolution do you feel Fireworker represents comparing with your previous works?

Thomas: It is a more mature work. It has the confidence that we now know what we are doing and why and we don’t really care how it is received. At least not when we are making it. Only after the master is out of the house do we start to worry. Fireworker is also, maybe, the best incarnation of the original idea for the music of GAZPACHO which was to see how MARILLION would sound if they took a more eclectic road and added a KATE BUSH -ian feeling to it.

What were the biggest challenges you faced when working on Fireworker? How did you go about overcoming them?

Thomas: The biggest challenge is always to keep the full picture of the album in mind while working on the thousands of small details in the sound landscapes. I have found that the key to doing this is listening to the songs in their entirety while heavily drunk on small speakers. That sounds like a joke but isn’t as you tend to go a little crazy while mixing. I remember hearing BILLIE JEAN during the mixing phase and feeling that the shaker on the song was unbearably loud and unpleasant. Now when I am back to normal I don’t think about it anymore and fully admit that it is mixed by one of the greats. [laughs]

The European tour in support of the new album has been rescheduled for October next year. With the conditions surrounding this global pandemic in mind, what are your plans when it comes to promoting the new album?

Thomas: We will do a livestream playing the album in its entirety, plus a couple of golden oldies, sometime in November. The tour next year might be a better idea as the audience will have had the time to get to know this rather complicated album.

GAZPACHO’s music is far from being predictable, and it surely requires a lot of effort in order to make it work out. Given the difficult economics of the world of music today, how do you make such ambitious projects a reality?

Thomas: We all make our money elsewhere so we have no need to benefit financially from the GAZPACHO  music. We never have and as a consequence have always enjoyed total artistic freedom. It’s the only way to do this stuff.

Fireworker is out now via Kscope.

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• OCT 20, 2023 Poppodium De Boerderij Zoetermeer, Netherlands
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GAZPACHO’S INTIMATE LOCKDOWN FILM ‘FIREWORKING AT ST.CROIX’ NEWLY REMIXED FOR THE PHYSICAL RELEASE ON KSCOPE

“Plenty to marvel at in the ensemble and individual playing of these musicians” - Louder Sound

Due to reasons which most fans will be well aware of by now, Gazpacho’s “Fireworker” 2020 album tour was cancelled. Stuck with the predicament of having a well honed show rehearsed and the prospect of a long period off the road, the band had a decision to make. The idea of a live stream which would reach fans far and wide quickly presented itself and the band had a perfect setting in their very own rehearsal space in beautiful Fredrikstad.  

The resulting film is a very moody trip into the world of 'The Fireworker’, captured on the 25th October 2020. No fixes, no polishes, no light show and no nothing. Not even catering. Just the pure rendition of the music along with a surprise or two for those of you who have been with the band for a while.

In Thomas Andersen’s own words “ Gazpacho has always been an ‘anti band’, in the sense that we strive to do things differently. For this reason we wanted an ‘honest’ live stream where we decided not to play the gig on an empty stage with a light show. Instead we decided to perform   it exactly how we play when we record or rehearse in the actual room we use .”

The original stream has now been completely re-edited and expanded with 30 minutes of additional material not included in the original broadcast, all remixed in glorious 5.1 surround sound. The Blu=Ray edition also contains 2.5 hours of bonus material including promo videos, interviews and a bonus concert filmed at the last night of the Soyuz Tour in 2019.

The band are now back on the road, but these recordings offer a fine historical nugget from the bands already sterling catalogue.

Fireworking At St Croix is out now on multiple formats all of which are available to order HERE.

• Deluxe 4 disc hardback book edition – with the whole show on double CD, Blu-Ray and DVD as well as 48 page coffee table book including extensive liner notes about the Fireworker concept and the history of Gazpacho, including never before seen photos and alternative album artwork.  
• Blu Ray – which features the re-edited and expanded original stream with 30 minutes of additional material not included in the original broadcast, all remixed in glorious 5.1 surround sound. Plus 2.5 hours of bonus material including promo videos, interviews and a bonus concert filmed at the last night of the Soyuz Tour in 2019

The streamed show soundtrack will be available on CD, double LP on black vinyl and as a digital album.

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Thomas Andersen – keyboards, programming Jan-Henrik Ohme – vocals Jon-Arne Vibo – guitars Mikael Krømer – violin, additional guitars Kristian “Fido” Torp – bass                                                                                      Robert R Johansen – drums

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GAZPACHO, THE KINGS OF ATMOSPHERIC AND AFFECTIVE ROCK RETURN WITH NEW ALBUM FIREWORKER

For nearly twenty years, Gazpacho have reigned as the kings of atmospheric and affective art rock. That’s certainly no small feat, as the subgenre is full of wonderfully moody, ornate, and emotional artists; yet, none of them manage to achieve the same level of exquisite baroque resonance and hypnotically introspective weight as the Norwegian sextet. As a result, they never fail to provide awe-inspiring examinations of the human condition, and their latest observation, Fireworker , is no exception. It is undoubtedly among their greatest achievements, as well as one of the most profound pieces of music you’ll hear in 2020.

Conceptually, the album follows the band’s tradition of blending grand philosophical quandaries, stimulating literary leanings, and haunting personal turmoil. In a way, it acts as the culmination of the themes and techniques that’ve decorated earlier collections, combining the fatalistic isolation of Night and Missa Atropos ; the ill-fated narrative drama of Tick Tock and Soyuz ; and the hefty theological/scientific contemplations of Demon and Molok . Beyond that, its central premise (that humanity has always been controlled by an infallible and omniscient creature determined to propagate at any cost) means that Fireworker comes across like the overarching umbrella under which all of its predecessors occur.

Keyboardist Thomas Andersen elucidates: “ There’s an instinctual part of you that lives inside your mind, separate from your consciousness. I call it the ‘Fireworker’ or the ‘Lizard’ or the ‘Space Cowboy.’ It’s an eternal and unbroken lifeforce that’s survived every generation, with a new version in each of us. It’s evolved alongside our consciousness, and it can override us and control all of our actions. ” In order to get us to do what it wants, he clarifies, the “Fireworker” will silence the parts of our mind that feel disgust or remorse so that we’re unable to stop it. The conscious part of our mind, Andersen notes, will actually “rationalize and legitimize” those thoughts and actions so that we never discover the beast behind-the-scenes. No matter how we feel about ourselves in terms of identity, accomplishments, and value, we’re all just vessels—or “Sapiens”—that the creature uses until it no longer needs us. “If you play along, ” Andersen explains, “ It’ll reward you like a puppy and let you feel fantastic; if you don’t, it’ll punish you severely.”

Like Night , Fireworker is a single “trip” broken into five chapters but meant to be appreciated all at once. This time, however, Gazpacho’s recurring protagonist is investigating the labyrinthian hive of his own psyche to engage in a Bergman-esque confrontation with the “Fireworker.” This journey is even represented by the Wimmelbilder cover, which, as usual, was designed by collaborator Antonio Seijas and depicts “the billions of neurons that create the cave of the mind”.

Fireworker declares its mesmeric dominance right away via “Space Cowboy,” a side-long suite whose ominous lyricism (“The parasite / That lives in me / Murders words / From where I stop / And it breathes in / We’re biting our tail / The cycle begins”) is but one of many reasons why it’s among Gazpacho’s greatest compositions. From its heartbreakingly delicate first movement and chaotic centerpiece, to its mournfully symphonic penultimate phase and thunderous outro, it is a masterpiece onto itself, cementing how vivacious, evocative, and imaginative Gazpacho remain after all these years.

From there, the sequence remains just as seductively eccentric and beautiful. In particular, “Hourglass” is a gorgeous piano ballad that evokes March of Ghosts in its fusion of welcoming melodies and gentle orchestral flourishes. That then make way for the feisty layers and catchy hooks of the band’s first single and title track “Fireworker.” Fittingly, “Antique” takes over with angelic mystery and the album closer “Sapien,” echoes the dynamic range and epic scope of “Space Cowboy,” resulting in an awe-inspiring finale that envelops you in luscious arrangements and poignant existential realizations.

Naturally, Gazpacho’s career has been full of great performances and glowing praise. Outside of issuing three superb live LPs (2010’s A Night at the Loreley , 2011’s London , and 2015’s Night of the Demon ), they’ve played festivals such as Be Prog! My Friend, Night of the Prog, Midsummer Prog Festival, and Cruise to the Edge, where they delighted audiences alongside exceptional brethren like iamthemorning, Anathema, Pain of Salvation, Caligula’s Horse, Riverside, The Neal Morse Band, and Steve Hackett. Unsurprisingly, their records have been met with similarly enthusiastic reception; for instance, their previous statement, 2018’s Soyuz , earned superlative accolades from publications such as PROG , Echoes and Dust and Louder than War .

Fireworker is truly life-changing experience, so you would be wise to turn off all of the lights, clear your mind as best you can, and prepare to meet the Fireworker.

FIREWORKER tracklisting

• Space Cowboy [19:43]
• Hourglass [04:15]
• Fireworker [04:41]
• Antique [06:24]
• Sapien [15:22]

Thomas Andersen – keyboards, programming Jan-Henrik Ohme – vocals Jon-Arne Vibo – guitars Mikael Krømer – violin, additional guitars Kristian “Fido” Torp – bass

Robert R Johansen – drums

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Gazpacho | Pure Reason Revolution

08. april 2022 19:15 uhr, veranstalter.

Double Headliner Tour

Club Zentral und clubCANN präsentieren das Prog/Artrock-Package des Jahres im Rahmen einer ProgMotion Veranstaltung: GAZPACHO (Norwegen) und PURE REASON REVOLUTION (England)!

Einlass: 18:30 Uhr

Beginn 19:15 Uhr

The tour will be a double headliner tour where both bands will play an equally long set. It will be an exclusive evening, since there will be no other club shows for these bands in 2022!

GAZPACHO The norwegian masters of art rock Gazpacho have been around for over 20 years. 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 Krømer (violin, co-producer), Robert R Johansen (drums) and Kristian Torp (bass). Regularly described as being ‘the kings of atmospheric and affective rock’, the band delivered one highly acclaimed album after another. On each album the band continued to push the boundaries for creating the most complicated and strangest concepts for a record. They never fail to provide awe-inspiring examinations of the human condition, and their latest observation, Fireworker, is no exception. It is undoubtedly among their greatest achievements. Reviewers described it as ‘one of the most profound pieces of music you’ll hear in 2020’. In 2021 the band is set to release a live recording which is leading up to a tour in April 2020. A double headliner tour with Pure Reason Revolution.

Videolinks: Gazpacho - Clockwork  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5th5yyTB4I&t=3s Gazpacho - Sapien  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lva0SH9Qu7Y

PURE REASON REVOLUTION The band originally formed back in 2003, releasing their much-loved debut album 'The Dark Third' in 2006 via Sony BMG. They went on to release the albums 'Amor Vincit Omnia' in 2009 and 'Hammer and Anvil' in 2010. Unfortunately Pure Reason Revolution parted ways in November 2011. However the band, consisting of main members Jon Courtney and Chloë Alper, decide in 2019 to reunite for a festival show (Midsummer prog festival in The Netherlands). This show was so enjoyable and the reception was so overwhelmingly positive, that Jon and Chloë decided to return back to the scene. This led in 2020 to the highly acclaimed album ‘Eupnea’. Currently the band is working on a new album to be released early 2021. To be followed by the double headliner tour with Gazpacho.

Videolinks: Pure Reason Revolution - Silent Genesis:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5khMXtZ6YjE Pure Reason Revolution - Ghosts & Typhoons:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIfrCbRkBww

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Fruit is overtaking my family’s yard. And I love it.

This year, for instance, I learned just how invasive raspberry plants are. I let them double their footprint on one side of our Washington, D.C., backyard, and this year’s harvest, at its peak, has hit almost 2 pints a day. Every morning of their run I gathered berries as soon as I had my coffee, putting them right in a bowl that I filled with yogurt and granola for breakfast.

Down the fence a ways, the fig tree is finally looking like, well, a tree. In the front yard, the plum tree has grown by leaps and bounds, too — and while this was the first year for a (modest) plum output, the peach tree on the other side of the walkway is on track to match or even outdo last year’s stellar yield.

And then there are the cherry trees: two of them, one a little stunted and the other growing nicely. Last year, when a few dozen of the little green orbs began to blush, I started making plans, and watched closely as they got riper and riper by the day. Then one morning, when I went out back, the cherries were gone without a trace. No stems and pits on the ground as evidence of squirrel or bird work. It was as if they had never existed in the first place. Had I just imagined them?

This spring, the larger tree bloomed like it was the Tidal Basin, and when cherries followed, I got to them before the animals did. It wasn’t the largest haul — about 2 pounds — but enough for me to freeze in the hopes of baking a pie or two this summer. The issue, though, was that I had somehow neglected to tell my husband, Carl, that these weren’t the eat-out-of-hand variety he was hoping for. “They’re so tart!” he said. Exactly. For a baker, sour cherries are the way to go, because you can more easily strike whatever sweet-tart balance works for you and your palate.

All this fruit was making my dreams come true just as I was letting my vegetable beds languish, with the excuse that work, parenting and a book project kept me too busy for the planting, watering and weeding the annual plants require. I didn’t even manage to get tomato plants in, and now that the weather has turned scorching, I missed my chance.

That means I also missed my opportunity to make one of my go-to tomato dishes: gazpacho, just the easy, flexible, no-cook kind of thing I want to eat right now. But just as you can turn sour cherries sweet, you can turn sweet cherries savory. So on a particularly lazy day, when we had grocery-store cherries galore in the refrigerator for snacking on, I thought: Why not gazpacho?

I wish I could tell you that I labored for weeks testing and tweaking this recipe, but the fact is, it came together beautifully with a single swap of cherries for tomatoes. The most time-consuming part was pitting the cherries, but even that takes only 10 minutes or so. (Since my cherry pitter went missing, I’ve taken to just using my fingers, and I think it might be my fastest method yet.) Then I added what I usually add when I blend up gazpacho: cucumber, red bell pepper, garlic, olive oil, sherry vinegar, salt, a little ice for chill. I reserved some of the vegetables for garnish, plus a little mint, drizzled on some olive oil, and gave Carl a taste.

He took a sip, looked at me, and smiled. “We need to have a dinner party,” he said, a sentence that I have never before heard come out of his mouth. “Just so you can make this again.”

We haven’t hosted that get-together yet, but I’ve whipped up the gazpacho again and again, using cherries from the farmers market and from the grocery store — even from the freezer aisle. (They just need a little thawing time, either before or after you make the gazpacho.)

One day, I hope, the gazpacho will get even easier to make. I made Carl a promise. Maybe by next spring, we can get a huge dying tree taken out of our front yard, opening another spot to sunlight, and I’ll plant some more cherry trees. This time, you can bet they’ll be sweet.

Cherry Gazpacho

Deep-red sweet cherries lend their color and delectable flavor to this simple gazpacho, inspired by the traditional tomato-based versions in Spain. The most time-consuming part is pitting the fruit, but if you’re not worried about temporarily staining your hands (wear an apron!), the easiest way is to just squeeze each cherry with your fingers and manually remove the pit. (If you have a cherry pitter you like, use it.) When cherries aren’t in season – or any time you want this to go even more quickly – use frozen ones and skip the ice. This chilled soup makes a delightful first course for a summer dinner. The cherries can be pitted and refrigerated for up to 3 days before making the soup.

Makes 4 servings (4 cups)

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 pounds sweet cherries, pitted, divided (see Substitutions)

2 mini cucumbers, peeled and cut into large chunks, divided

1 red bell pepper, seeded and cut into large chunks, divided

1 garlic clove

1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for serving

1/4 cup water

3 tablespoons sherry vinegar, plus more to taste (see Substitutions)

1/2 teaspoon fine salt, plus more to taste

8 ice cubes (see Notes)

Mint leaves, thinly sliced, for garnish (see Substitutions)

1: Reserve a handful of the cherries, half of the cucumber chunks and half of the bell pepper chunks for the topping. Slice them as thinly as possible, keeping them in separate piles.

2: In a blender, combine the remaining cherries, cucumbers, bell pepper, garlic, olive oil, water, vinegar, salt and ice and puree until smooth. Taste, and season with more salt and/or vinegar as needed.

3: Divide the soup among four serving bowls. Top with mint leaves and the reserved cherries, cucumbers and bell pepper. Drizzle with olive oil and serve cold.

SUBSTITUTIONS

You can use frozen cherries instead of fresh. (See Notes.)

For sherry vinegar, you can substitute red wine vinegar, white wine vinegar or champagne vinegar.

For mint, try basil or Thai basil.

Notes: If using frozen cherries, it’s best to defrost them first. If you don’t, you might need to add extra water to get the blender blades moving, and it will initially have the thick consistency of a smoothie. To correct that, after blending either briefly microwave the gazpacho on HIGH in 30-second increments, or let it sit at room temperature for 1 to 2 hours. You probably will not need ice if using frozen cherries.

Recipe from Joe Yonan.

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Clocking in at 53 minutes, “Night” was Gazpacho’s first true concept album – the album is essentially one song split into 5 parts.

“we are extremely proud of the result and believe this to be our best album to date (isn’t that what they all say… well we mean it… isn’t that what they all say as well… well… i give up). “night” is a musical description of a dream or a stream of conciousness. it explores the question of where dreams end and reality begins and the mind as the tool that has to decide what to believe. the character goes through various memories real and imagined and sees the world from the angles of different people. he travels through time and visits places across the world including old new orleans and ancient woods with pagan rituals being performed. night is about life and the various ways of interpreting existence. pretentious oh yes but delicious as well… very delicious.”, thomas anderson, gazpacho, stream night.

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