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The band planned a tour to promote the new album in May 1980. They had found a new bass player in Torkel Thyrell, a veteran who played with Hans in S:t. Michael Sect in the 60's. However, the band was heading for serious trouble. Mats Löfgren felt unmotivated, worn out and generally bad this period. So the last days of rehearsal without excuse, Mats Löfgren just didn't turn up!! A fatal blow to the band who was about to do shows in a few days! The rest of the group gave up after futile attempts to solve the problem: it was simply impossible to get Mats to fulfil his part.
The band had to face the fact that they had to start the tour and take care of the vocal parts on their own without any rehearsal. The first concerts on this tour were improvised in many ways. The vocal parts of the songs were written and arranged for Mats' voice, but after a while the band transposed the songs to the right keys to fit Hans voice, which was not an altogether simple task while on tour.
The band started to look for a new singer. Anne Chaaban was singing in a local blues band. Hans was attracted by her style, filled with power and feeling. He invited her to rehearse with the band, thinking this could be a new start and direction. The intention was good, but the right chemistry never appeared. Anne's way of singing didn't fit in with the rich harmonies of Kaipas music. She didn't feel comfortable and had no experience in singing this type of music. Sometimes she went completely astray in their musical landscape. This constellation lasted only for one tour during November 1980. After that Anne and Torkel left the band.
After all this adversity the three remaining members decided to continue in the original form as a quartet. Max knew a clever bass player and a very nice guy called MATS LINDBERG from Stockholm. (Yes it's true, two different persons with the same name playing the same instrument and in the same band.) His nickname was "Microben" (Microbe).
This time the chemistry was much better. Hans took care of the vocals once again, and they made a lot of new arrangements of old Kaipa songs mixed with new compositions and improvisations. Now the band just wanted to play, touring and bring the joy back into their life and music. So they undertook several tours between April and December 1981 including a concert at "Huset" in Copenhagen broadcast by Danish Radio.
By the end of this year Ingemar decided to leave the band.
There was no problem finding a new drummer. Olle Romö started to rehearse with the band early in 1982. But after just a few weeks he had to leave, after an invitation from The Euruthmics. So instead, Pelle Andersson took his place, and brought with his drumming a lot of new inspiration to the band.
They started to arrange a lot of new songs penned by Hans, but the other members also added songs and new ideas. The structure of the music was not clearly defined, the free hands ruled and they didn't know exactly what was going to come out of this. They took some inspiration from artists like Peter Gabriel and Talking Heads trying to do some new kind of progressive music. They wanted to continue the musical journey of Kaipa but they didn't want to stay in the 70's locked in their own history. This was a true progressive trip by all means. Everyone that saw this constellation of KAIPA live can confirm that they really enjoyed playing together. By this time Hans was the only member living in Uppsala, all the others lived in Stockholm.
The band had no record contract, but they wanted to record the new songs on an album. So they decided to make the recording by themselves on Hans' 8-track tape recorder in the rehearsal room in Uppsala. Of course this was a situation completely different by all means and very far away from the last recording at Polar Studio.
The record "Nattdjurstid" (Time of Nocturnal Animals) was recorded by the band with no outside help and released in the autumn 1982 on Piglet Records. It received lots of good revives, but that was unfortunately not enough. All the members in the band were professional musicians, but the work with the band didn't give them enough money to live by. So they decided to take a break after the last gig at Studion in Stockholm the 13th December 1982. This break was going to last for almost twenty years.
This band was on their way to develop something great with their music at this time. Four excellent musicians filled with new musical ideas to the limit of their capacity. But the opportunity to do this just blew away into the unknown history with this break.
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