
Kansas’ 2020 release The Absence Of Presence was their second album in four years. It seemed as if the band were on a roll after 16 years of studio inactivity; and part of that seemed to be down to recent recruit Zak Rizvi, who’d taken on lead guitar, production and writing chores. Rizvi departed in 2021 and Kansas haven’t released any studio material since. But before he moved on in 2020, he told Prog about his involvement in their creative burst.