Limelight
WIZRD
Soft Ffog and Krokofant musicians team up for unpredictable prog-psych joy.
A band for all seasons, Wizrd. L-R: Karl Bjorå,
Hallvard Gaardløs, Vegard Lien Bjerkan,
Axel Skalstad.
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“If you’d told me I’d end up working with Jaga Jazzist’s drummer I’d have said, ‘No fucking way!’”
INCREASINGLY ONE OF Northern Europe’s most prog-friendly creative epicentres, Oslo has become a hotbed of strange and exciting bands. Wizrd may be the most exhilarating of the lot. With a sound that unfolds from some unexplored midpoint between psychedelic prog, jazz fusion and angular avant-rock, with sumptuous three-part vocal harmonies erupting from every wonky corner, the Norwegians appear all-encompassing and all-conquering on their debut, Seasons. But as bassist-vocalist Hallvard Gaardløs explains, Wizrd began life as a slightly more prosaic component of his end-of-term exams.