WIZRD

Soft Ffog and Krokofant musicians team up for unpredictable prog-psych joy.

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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. “The origin of the band was that we went to the Jazz Conservatory in Trondheim together, and I actually founded the band for my graduating exam,” he grins. “It was me and Karl [Bjorå, guitarist] and Axel [Skalstad, drummer] and we played at the exam, including…

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