Sentinel by Kapia

Kapia's debut album combines elements of art rock and post-punk, with synth-driven sounds. The songs are about the varied impressions of a sentry who observes, remembers, imagines or experiences strange phenomena taking place in the territory which he guards.

The album’s core material was recorded almost a decade ago in Athens, Greece with A.I. Iliakis on bass and vocals, George Kintis on guitar and Alexandros Voulgaris (The Boy) on keyboards and drums. With the recording process stretching much longer than expected, combined with clashing views between the musicians concerning the album’s artistic direction, the group ended up dissolving immediately after the recording was completed.

It remained unreleased for many years, until the fall of 2017, when Giannis Anagnostatos (Lolek) took on the task of working on it, having previously played with A.I. Iliakis in the bands Touched (2003-04) and the duo Bolek & Lolek (2005-07). Facing recording files that were inapproachable and chaotic, G. Anagnostatos put them in order and selected the sounds that shaped their final artistic form as producer and orchestrator. Many of the vocals, as well as some additional instruments, were re-recorded, thus securing the link of the past with the present. Much of its overall sound was defined in the grueling post-production process, almost like a pastiche, a Frankenstein's monster.

With the album’s artwork, Kapia pays tribute to the great Czech artist František Kupka (1871-1957) displaying paintings from 3 different decades.

Kapia is a Greek rock band formed in 2018. We have released two albums: The synth-driven Sentinel (2019) and the accordion-based Sail Away (2021)