Dangerous Ideas

“It’s a difficult album to get into. It doesn’t welcome you with open arms but when you get there, I think it can be worth it,” declares Thomas Andersen on the subject of , the new release from Norway’s Gazpacho. He’s talking to from his home studio south of Oslo where we can spot a 1968 Moog and a signed Bruford Anderson Wakeman Howe T-shirt. When not working on Gazpacho’s latest opus, Andersen has been enjoying Rick Wakeman’s autobiography (his childhood hero) and it becomes clear that he’s a widely read man. The original plan for the new album was a concept based on Henrik Ibsen’s play , about a couple whose baby is left handicapped after he falls off a table while they’re having sex. “The play is about how they fight because