Swedish unfashionable prog rockers Wobbler launched their 3rd album Rites At Crack of dawn in 2011 which mad a direct affect within the Prog place of job. This was once the first actual piece the mag ran at the band…
In step with keyboardist Lars Fredrik Frøislie, “Once we began Wobbler in 1999 we have been simply teenage buddies with the similar love for overdue 60s and early 70s prog and sought after to play that form of tune.” Since then the band have launched 3 lovingly crafted, superb symphonic albums which are a throwback to prog’s golden age. Even though normally Frøislie has his personal distinctive standpoint: “I call to mind our tune because the soundtrack to the Norwegian woodland.”
Extra prosaically, Frøislie is prematurely about Wobbler’s key reference issues. “We’re surely now not looking to cover that we’re impressed by way of bands like PFM, Mild Large, King Purple, Gryphon, Genesis, Sure, ELP and so forth. We’re proudly wearing on the place the early 70s prog bands left off.”
Wobbler’s meticulous method to recreating the sounds in their heroes evidences their dedication to their artwork. “We’re relatively excessive with regards to authenticity – all you listen is the true deal. There’s no midi, samples or virtual keyboards. We use relatively a couple of classical tools too.”
Certainly Frøislie is borderline obsessive in regards to the equipment which are integral to Wobbler’s industry, with the band eschewing any tools manufactured since 1975. “I don’t have any issues of samples and cushy synths in the event that they’re used on their very own phrases. In case you use samples to check out to sound like the true deal you’ll’t truly win, since there’s not anything like the true factor, with all its quirkiness and faults – or appeal. To me virtual samples are useless, whilst an analogue keyboard is alive and distinctive. My Mellotrons sound quite other from each and every different. In addition they glance, really feel and odor great! And I play significantly better on the true factor; it brings out the most productive in me and the tune.”
Frøislie confesses that he lately owns “between 20 and 30” diversified keyboards. “I stay promoting and purchasing, although I attempt to give up. However I’ve hung directly to essentially the most crucial classics, just like the Chamberlin, Mellotron, Moog, ARP, Hammond organ, Rhodes, Wurlitzer and clavinet. After all there are some downsides to the outdated classics – there’s a number of repairs they usually’re now not very sensible to make use of reside.”
After two years spent taken with recording present album Rites At Crack of dawn, Wobbler are making plans additional reside displays following a contemporary tour to Canada, with Frøislie willing to dispel any concept that the band is solely a studio undertaking. “No, we’re a band within the classical sense for just right and unhealthy – we quarrel always, which I feel is wholesome for the tune although laborious. However enjoying reside is such a lot paintings to organise the entire tools!”
