Prog fans rejoice! After announcing that they were preparing a new album, Norwegian progressive outfit Gazpacho is set to release their brand new studio album Molok through Kscope on 23rd October 2015. The follow-up to the brilliant Demon will be a nine-track release. Feast your eyes on the cover and more details below. More importantly, enjoy the new track "Know Your Time" as an introduction to the record.







Tracklist:
01. Park Bench
02. The Master's Voice
03. Bela Kiss
04. Know Your Time
05. Choir of Ancestors
06. ABC
07. Algorithm
08. Alarm
09. Molok Rising

Across the album there are religious themes going head to head with modern day new science ideas and theories, Gazpacho's Thomas Andersen states, 'the album itself is about a man that sometime around 1920 decides that wherever anyone worships a God they always seem to be worshiping stone in some form. Whether it is a grand cathedral, the stone in Mecca or Stonehenge. God seems to have been chased by his worshipers into stone never to return. This harkens back to Norwegian folk myths where if a troll was exposed to sunlight it would turn to stone but it also reflects the way God has been incommunicado for a very long time.'

On the album, Gazpacho make a direct connection with history. Norwegian music archaeologist Gjermund Kolltveit appears on the song "Molok Rising" and plays his reconstruction of stone-age instruments making an educated guess at what the early songs of worship must have sounded like. This includes small stones, moose jaws and an assortment of flutes and stringed instruments. He also plays the Skåra stone, a singing stone which has a strong possibility of having been in use since the last ice age ended 10.000 years ago. Technically this means that the album uses the oldest original instrument ever recorded on an album.

The band are also joined by world-renowned Norwegian accordion player Stian Carstensen who is a central member of Balkan-jazz orchestra Farmers Market.

Source:	kscopemusic.com
Band profile:	Gazpacho