Above is my favourite (long) piece by Norwegian Prog(ish) band, Gazpacho, who have been a sublime revelation since discovering them a couple of months ago.
Have always loved Prog (ELP; Van Der Graaf Generator; early Genesis; Yes; The Enid; Gentle Giant; Rush; Kansas; Marillion; IQ etc.), and have enjoyed seeing some great more modern Prog bands over the last few years (Riverside; The Flower Kings; Antimatter; Pain of Salvation; Threshold; Crippled Black Phoenix; Blackfield etc.).
But how did I discover Gazpacho recently? I mean - the band have now released a steady stream of albums since the early 2000s and somehow they slipped under my radar for years. Well, a couple of months ago, I saw that Gazpacho were playing Warsaw Klub Progresja on April 4th on the Klub Progresja website, then dutifully gave them a spin on Youtube, and will now be going seeing them next Friday.
So which other Gazpacho tunes do I really like? Well, I love another long epic, 'Dream of Stone':
I do a lot of proofreading work for an English language book publishing company in Warsaw, and find that playing Gazpacho at the same time is a wonderful therapeutic antidote to the monotiny of proofreading. Yes, these long, deeply atmospheric tunes just flash by and make me feel better.
There just seems to be a super-smooth, enigmatic-type drifty quality to these tunes. Can't wait to see this stuff being done live at the Klub Progresja next Friday.
Yes, this stuff is really beautiful and atmospheric.
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