KAIPA

GARY MACKENZIE

Sommargryningsljus INSIDEOUTMUSIC Swedish prog luminaries provide nourishing light in the darkness. Led today by keyboard player and sole remaining founder member Hans Lundin, Swedish symphonic prog exponents Kaipa have a venerable history. With five albums released between 1975 and 1982 (the first three featuring 17-year-old future Flower Kings frontman Roine Stolt on guitar), a two-decade hiatus and nine subsequent albums since 2002, they are a Scandi-prog institution. “It captures the majesty of classic symphonic prog.” Kaipa’s latest, Sommargryningsljus (‘Summer Dawn Light’), is themed around the concept of a nocturnal odyssey from fading light to redemptive dawn. It starts as the day ends with Sommarskymningsljus, actually the first part of one song that bookends the album, with vocalist Aleena Gibson gently emoting as she reflects on the dying of the day.…

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