Gazpacho

Oslo to Tick Tock

Gazpacho began in Oslo in 1996 around Jon-Arne Vilbo and Thomas Andersen, childhood friends who had played in an earlier band, spelled Delirium on the official site and Delerium on Wikipedia. Andersen, a radio commercial producer, brought in the singer Jan-Henrik Ohme. The name was an attempt to describe their music, a surprising, contradictory mix; Wikipedia quotes Andersen calling it the bastard of soups. In the early years the bassist Roy Funner played on finished recordings, the drums were computer-generated, and a two-year concept album, Random Access Memory, was discarded because the band felt it was not musically mature enough.

They released the promo EP Get It While It's Cold in 2002, won the Make-A-Star contest with "Sea of Tranquility", and followed with Bravo (2003), When Earth Lets Go (2004, when they supported Marillion on the Marbles tour), Firebird (2005, Racket Records, with Steve Rothery guesting) and Night (2007), a single 50-minute piece in five parts. Tick Tock (March 15, 2009, HTW Records) is a concept album about Antoine de Saint-Exupery's 1935 attempt to fly from Paris to Saigon, his desert crash with his co-pilot Prevot, recounted in Wind, Sand and Stars. Its title piece runs 22:24 in three parts, previewed live in Zoetermeer on July 18, 2008. They toured six countries from March 26 to April 8, 2009, and headlined the Night of the Prog festival at Loreley, Germany on July 10, 2009, released as the DVD A Night at Loreley in January 2010.

Missa Atropos came on November 26, 2010, March of Ghosts in 2012, Demon in 2014, Molok on October 23, 2015 on Kscope, Soyuz on May 18, 2018, Fireworker on September 18, 2020 and Magic 8-Ball in October 2025, their twelfth studio album. Lars Erik Asp played drums from 2010 to 2017, when Johansen returned. Setlist.fm lists "Tick Tock" in 2026 Magic 8-Ball tour sets, Part 1 in several and Parts 1 to 3 at Bydgoszcz on September 19, 2026.