IN THE WAKE OF EVOLUTION

Certainly- I recognize it- They are talented musicians, as for their experience (especially regarding the long career which has characterized the role of Roine Stolte within his recent groups- such as Transatlantic, Flower Kings and of course the present Kaipa), but I'm a little bit disturbed when the typical sound of the seventies begins to "flow" in their compositions!!... Ok- by considering this album "In The Wake..." another product of classic prog- the choice made by Kaipa is always coherent, even though at the end their artistic value is poor, being too much "derivative" in my opinion, regarding the old style of the band (perhaps it could have been ok thirty years ago!!...).

Instead when They insert simple and convincing melodies into the mini-suites, inside a "wall" of mellotron sound, by driving the listener to the folk music genre, the output is a little bit different. Otherwise, despite of finding some embarassing lyrics inside, you can appreciate a good example of interplay between the guitar and the keyboards, above all in the track "Arcs Of Sound" or within the title-track , but I don't know whether it's enough to recommend the present work or less.

You can check it out at least, but for instance a clever band from the USA- like Echolyn- had traced a path to be emulated in the 1st half of the nineties in their gem "Suffocating the Bloom"- and it could have been a new way in order to perform an excellent modern symphonic prog; instead Kaipa has never followed such example... in fact the present album- that creates some echoes of an old and dated music genre- also in the title (do you remember that famous album by King Crimson in the early seventies?...)- is sometimes interesting anyway, even though being never able to make a renewal of the so called progressive genre (think also of Frank Zappa or After Crying within "6"!!).

After all it's better than their previous albums, but neither exceptional nor original at all...so make your own choice, as usual!!

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