FLOWER POWER

This is in every way an interesting record. It is totally full of music and parts of it are awesome. I have to warm you beacuse the music needs time to be understood. There's so plenty of music minutes and every song needs to be heard some times before you judge it. "Flowerpower" from 1999 is The Flower Kings' fourth studio album, done two years after their third. It contains more than two hours of music and there, we you see that, immediately you wonder if the quality could be as great as you want to expect.

"Flowerpower" is a record of a lot of music, definitely much good tunes and wonderous compositions, but in some way there's is too much of it, the quality falls under the quantity. The music is very appealing to me and I guess this could grow but I feel that the parts, especially in "The Garden of Dreams" aren't coherent enough. That composition did I hear on the live record "Meet the Flower Kings" from 2003. There it was amazing, so vivid and amazing. Here it unfortunately was like a lot of separate parts quite randomly put together to a suite. Still I find it appealing and absolutely worth praise.

Instead I prefer the second CD with more separated songs where "Deaf, Numb and Blind" stands out as a lovely symphonic track just as "Magic Pie". Also "Psychadelic Postcard" appeals to me as special in many ways. I found the second CD more varied to. This band, made up by Roine Stolt(guitar, voice, keyboards), Tomas Bodin(keyboards), Hasse Fröberg(vocals), Michael Stolt(bass), Jaime Salazar(drums) and Hasse Bruniusson(percussion) has great talent and abilities to make interesting music. The music aren't directly acquirable but I recommend you to try it, at least two times. I will give Flower Power three stars today!