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Phil Ehart
(September 2005 Issue)
Kansas Pet Sounds It's been seventeen
years since the original Kansas lineup recorded tmgether. Such an event
merits special
circumstances, for sure. So when Kansas founder Kerry
Livgren realized the solo material he'd been working on would
be
perfect for his old band, recording at his Grandyzine farm/studio in
Topeka seemed appropriate. The band's strong
return to form, Somewhere
To Elsewhere, certainly benefited from the relaxed vibe.
"We'd play a track and then
go hang out with the sheep,"
reflects drummer Phil Ehart. "We'd pet the horse; the turkeys would
gobble at us. It was an
interesting way to work."
Besides taking advantage of ultra-clean digital recording
technology, the band consciously
trimmed arrangements, making their
powerful "American progressive" music more hard-hitting. "It's easy to
layer a lot of
things in our music," Ehart explains. "There's so much
going on. But we tried hard to keep it
uncluttered.
Adam Budofsky
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