The Absence of Presence will be the next album offering from prog rock veterans Kansas, who have been more present than absent in recent years.
The nine-song set is due out June 26 -- in time for the group's summer tour with Foreigner and Europe -- and was, like 2016's The Prelude Implicit, produced by guitarist Zak Rizvi with founding members Phil Ehart and Richard Williams at the group's Real 2 Reel Studios in Stockbridge, Ga.
It's Kansas' second outing with Rizvi and singer-keyboardist Ronnie Platt and first with keyboardist Tom Brislin (Meat Loaf, Debbie Harry, Yes), and Ehart tells Billboard that the "new blood" has made another album that stands alongside vintage '70s Kansas. "This sounds like Kansas," Ehart says. "Zak wrote the
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