Kaipa – T P A

Some of the Best of 2022

Happy New Year! Another strange year – this seems to be becoming a habit! At least there has been plenty of new music to enjoy and live performances are well and truly back on track. As is usual at this…

Hans Lundin – Kaipa

Keyboardist and composer Hans Lundin is the sole constant through the history of the legendary Swedish band Kaipa, which he co-founded in 1973. With the band having just released their fourteenth album, the mesmerising Urskog, TPA’s Jez Rowden talks to…

Kaipa – Urskog

Urskog, Kaipa’s fourteenth studio album, follows a journey through the changing seasons of the Swedish landscape, taking us from winter cold into spring with The Frozen Dead of the Night, through the heady days of summer to the leaves falling…

The Decade in Review – Jez Rowden

How do you compare and rank albums as diverse as those released into the ‘Prog Zone’ in the last decade? It’s a tricky challenge that requires the use of generalisations, but also specific factoring. In this case, having assembled a…

Kaipa – Children of the Sounds

Swedish progressive rock band Kaipa return with their thirteenth album, Children of the Sounds. Formed in 1973 and now led by original member Hans Lundin, they released their debut album in 1975. This is their eighth album since the band…

Kaipa – Sattyg

An introspective intro leaps into heartfelt exaltations from Aleena Gibson at the top of her range, echoing as if across a silent Scandinavian lake at dusk, and we’re off into a rampaging instrumental overture to open the seventh album from…