This is my next trip into ProgRock fields... Actually a new world to me but a mate here sparked me interest in angling. Swedish rockers KAIPA around since 1973, except for a 18 years running break (from 1982-2000), meaning, KAIPA are old hands at the Prog scene.
To say it beforehand: Angling Feelings is a multi-colored, melodic, much varied and thrilling record. It sometimes reminds me of Fates Warning to Perfect Symetry times, if they would have had an addiction to folky Jethro Tull.
KAIPA’s long running history is affected by many line-up changes, which might be responsible for many ambivalent album reviews in the Prog scene. Newer records for example got blamed for cold calculations I cannot verify.
Tricky song structures, solo duels between keyboard and guitars, male and female vocals, enough but not too much of pathos, a proper portion of filthy seventies rock and a list to folk are the ingredients for this powerful cocktail, which is in fact sophisticated but at no time too polished, artificial, swanky or inaccessible.
To always again made comparisons with Ritual or Flower King I cannot say much about. What I can tell you is that I like Angling Feelings. Just the cover artwork… let’s cover the cloak of silence about it…
Try out the multi-colored and brimming chest The Fleeting Existence Of Time.