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Apr 8, 2021 · KANSAS, America's legendary progressive rock band, has announced the departure of guitarist Zak Rizvi. Rizvi joined KANSAS in 2016, but his relationship with KANSAS goes back almost 20...
Mar 8, 2024 · Zak Rizvi – a driving force for the band’s two most recent albums – once thought they were a southern rock or country rock band, until he dug deeper than Carry On Wayward Son and Dust In The Wind and found their prog roots
The band KANSAS announces that guitarist Zak Rizvi has resigned and that he looks forward to pursuing new projects. We thank Zak for his many contributions throughout the years and we wish him well in his future endeavors.
- Who Is Zak Rizvi?
- Jeff Glixman
- After Leftoverture Live and Beyond
- The Absence of Presence
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Hi Zak, how are things at your side of the Atlantic? Still healthy? Oh yeah, I'm good and my band mates too, no problem there! I have to admit this whole Corona-thing begins to become a little scary though. We have many shows planned from May to October, and we are planning to go to Europe afterwards. Considering all the lock-downs we have to wait ...
You've worked with Jeff Glixman, the producer of a number of Kansas albums. Is that how you got in contact with the band Kansas? No, the funny thing is it went the other way around! At some point, if my recollection is sound, around 2000 I got in touch with Phil Ehart through a mutual acquaintance. I started to send him some of my demos. So we had ...
The live album dates back from the end of 2017, your sixteenth album will be releases in June 2020. What have you guys been doing these last two and a half years? Well we've been busy touring! No kidding, we never intended to have such a long period between these two studio albums! Since we completed The Prelude Implicit, almost three years went by...
Then about the new album. What can you tell us about the "road to The Absence"? When Tom joined the band things suddenly fell into place and with his contributions we were getting somewhere! The past three years we have been exchanging demos so we all got the chance to comment on them, give suggestions for adaptations and improvements, other arrang...
Studio Albums Kansas (1974) Song For America (1974) Masque (1975) Leftoverture (1976) Point Of Know Return (1977) Monolith (1979) Audiovisions (1980) Vinyl Confessions (1982) Drastic Measures (1983) Power (1986) In The Spirit Of Things (1988) Freaks Of Nature (1995) Always Never The Same (1998) Somewhere To Elsewhere (2000) The Prelude Implicit (20...
Learn how Zak Rizvi, a Pakistani-born musician, became a member of the legendary prog-rock band Kansas and co-wrote their latest album The Absence Of Presence. Read his interview with DPRP.net and discover his musical influences and background.
Apr 8, 2021 · Kansas, America’s legendary progressive rock band, have announced that guitarist Zak Rizvi has resigned, and that he looks forward to pursuing new projects. Says the band: "We thank Zak for his many contributions throughout the years and we wish him well in his future endeavours."
Zak Rizvi, who played guitar for KANSAS from 2016 to 2020, is back on tour with the classic rock band. He co-produced and wrote songs for the albums "The Prelude Implicit" and "The Absence of Presence".
May 19, 2020 · Zak Rizvi is the guitarist of Kansas, a legendary progressive rock band. He talks about their new album 'The Absence of Presence' and his role in the band in this podcast interview.
