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Titre : Flower Kings en batterie Source / Auteur : AmarokProg Date : 11/04/2007 Nb consultation : 813
Deux news venant de ROINE STOLT et des FLOWER KINGS !
"Hi ALL
I just returned from a fabulous week in the studio, where all of the band were laying down the basic tracks for our new CD.
First of all, a big NO, Hasse Froberg is not leaving the band and he have no plans or no desire whatever to go to India to teach, nor have his wife or kids (april fools) Then a big YES, Zoltan Csörsz have recorded with the band and we are all VERY excited about the quality and the sheer committment that Zoltan have put into this recording. It's too early to tell if Zoltan will play on the tour, but we won't rule it out, it all depend on our individual schedules, what however seems unlikely at this point is that Marcus will sing lead (april fools) or can commit 100% to drumming on this tour or future tours, more news to follow later.
The recording week have been a great experience for us all, we've been in a great studio facility that have tons of vintage gear and we've had it 24/7 so we've lived there and we've worked with our trusted team of Petrus Königson as engineeer and we've had Per Nordin there videofilming the sessions, so we have hours and hours of filmed material.
The result is as far as we can see a great symphonic & progressive rock album that have more of the Retropolis/Stardust/Flower Power vibe, but perhaps a bit more "progressive" in the sense there are no short easy listening songs, however there are very melodic and likewise catchy sections integrated in these epics. A few of these songs were really difficult to play, the intricacy of time signatures had us on our toes, but it was great fun. Yes there are similarities to songs like Stardust We Are or Garden Of Dreams but perhaps even as much to the Transatlantics epics.
The energy level was on a hi all the time and I guess it shows, again Zoltan did a terrific job behind the kit, easily as good or better than his work on UTF, it even has a bit of Terry Bozzio tom tom extravaganza and a few short solo spots that are all terrific.
The sound quality is head and shoulders above what we got from the Medley on Paradox Hotel, Petrus is a genious and the Varispeed studio with it's 3 NEVE desks and old U 47 Telefunkens, Neumans etc. is the coolest and the best studio I've ever recorded in, the result is top notch and the vibe there was all late 60's and early 70's.
We had the pleasure to use a custom modified ( by expert Brian Davenport) Hammond B 3 that sounded just fabulous and along with that we will, or have used real Minimoogs, Wurlizer, Fender Rhodes pianos and a Grand Piano. This means that this album will see more of the vintage keyboard sounds than on any other TFK record, I feel it goes well with the songs that have great melodic and warm melodies that take me back to the glory days of Procol Harum, ELP, Genesis, Yes, Focus, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, Deep Purple and The Beatles. I have tried to remember the feeling of standing on stage when the band sound great and we really feel like we're moving air and we're moving peoples hearts and I've tried to write from that perspective, perhaps with a less intellectual style and more of a direct soulful vibe.
Now we have a few weeks of overdubbing vocals and percussion, xtra guitars and keys and hopefully by mid June we have delivered a steaming hot new CD album to Inside Out that we're proud of and that will take you back to the glory days of prog.
In my opinion TFK have never sounded better and never delivered such a compact collection of what we do best, I admit we took a few (interesting) detours but this is what defines the band, this is as close as it gets to what I set out to do 12 years ago.
btw, Did I mention that Hasse will be singing with us next tour ......and next ......
And we'll make shure to prepare the drumkits with asbest too........
and no drummer will take the lead mike, nor will we turn our amps up to more than 11, we will try keep it just below that 11 mark.
Roine"
Quelques jours plus tard...
"Well, the only thing we know for shure at the moment is that Marcus could not, or did not want to let The Flower Kings have priority over his own popgroup Clark this month. This has been the case a few times since he started with the band and even if we can understand and respect his decision it will still leave a very big "IF" for us everytime we plan a tour or a recording.
Personally I felt that if Marcus prefer to go do gigs with his pop group rather than recording an album with Flower Kings it probably means his feelings for TFK and the music genre are not hot and will probably not change for the better in near future, Marcus simply is not a big prog fan, nor a fusion or "weird music" fan. He prefers more mainstream pop productions with solid drumming, I love that too but I feel TFK are going in a different direction.
So reality is that Marcus love and prefer another type of music than the average TFK fan, even if he did a great job on both Paradox Hotel and Instant Delivery, so goes his priorities, without doubt.
This means we cannot predict the near future 100% but it seems less likely he will change his position and join TFK full time and we'll have to look for a new drummer if we want 100% commitment.
As for Zoltan, we will see how things develop, all we can agree on at this time is that he just did a fabulous job on the new CD and that his playing style may fit our music better as it has developed on this new record, besides he's a sweet guy deep down and really passionate about his music and his drumming. After all, what didn't work out 100% around 2004 might work out today, but it's too early to tell ... stay tuned.
But there's always that young dude & great drummer, Mike PornToy ...
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