Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Prog Bands, Artists and Genres Appreciation
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Flower Kings Appreciation Thread
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Flower Kings Appreciation Thread
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 56789 487>
Author
Message Reverse Sort Order
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
Cristi View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Crossover / Prog Metal Teams

Joined: July 27 2006
Location: wonderland
Status: Online
Points: 43666 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2021 at 06:04
new song
Back to Top
Catcher10 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: December 23 2009
Location: Emerald City
Status: Offline
Points: 17847 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Catcher10 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2021 at 10:06
Flower Power on LP will be great too, will expect that one to be a 3-LP set like Unfold and Stardust.
Back to Top
miamiscot View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 23 2014
Location: Ohio
Status: Offline
Points: 3574 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote miamiscot Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2021 at 07:27
We need all The Flower Kings on vinyl. 
The Prog Corner
Back to Top
Catcher10 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: December 23 2009
Location: Emerald City
Status: Offline
Points: 17847 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Catcher10 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2021 at 11:16
Originally posted by infandous infandous wrote:



Prog icons The Flower Kings are pleased to announce the release of their 15th studio album ‘By Royal Decree’, set for 4th March 2022. The band have also announced the first live dates in support of the album, taking place in Sweden beginning end of March 2022.
The band are back at their most creative, flowery and playful – mirroring the 70’s melting pot of folk, symphonic, electronic, jazz, blues, funk & prog. On the new album they have looked for more organic and vintage sounds, still centered around the foundation of drums, bass, guitars and the iconic Hammond, grand piano, mellotron & Moog synthesizers.
The album also sees the return of founding member Michael Stolt, who takes up bass guitar and vocal duties which he splits with long-time member Jonas Reingold, alongside the line-up of Mirko DeMaio on drums, Zach Kamins on keyboards, Hasse Fröberg on vocal & guitar and Roine Stolt on vocal & guitars. The band convened in the middle of 2021 at Fenix Studios in Sweden to record through the fully analogue Rupert Neve mixing desk. The album also features beautiful cover art, once again created by Denver-based artist Kevin Sloan.
Next years tour will also see the band revisiting their early years, performing tracks from ‘Retropolis’, ‘Stardust We Are’, ‘Flower Power’, ‘Space Revolver’ and ‘Back In The World Of Adventures’. This will coincide with the release of newly remastered editions of The Flower Kings albums on CD & Vinyl later in 2022. The first confirmed live dates are as follows:
30th March 2022 – Katalin, Uppsala, Sweden
31st March 2022 – Musikens Hus, Gothenburg, Sweden
1st April 2022 - Södra Teatern, Stockholm, Sweden
Look out for more information on the new album, pre-orders and the first single on the 10th December.


 ..."record through the fully analogue Rupert Neve mixing desk..."

This makes me so happy! I think they have done this on a couple albums in the past few years. If I remember right Agents of Mercy and a couple other TFK albums have been recorded analog thru a Neve board as well. The final mastering is probably all digital, but at least the original capture is thru an analog mix board. 
I'm also looking forward to more LP releases, hoping for Adam&Eve and Sum Of No Evil soon...
Back to Top
infandous View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: March 23 2006
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 2447 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote infandous Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2021 at 06:42


Prog icons The Flower Kings are pleased to announce the release of their 15th studio album ‘By Royal Decree’, set for 4th March 2022. The band have also announced the first live dates in support of the album, taking place in Sweden beginning end of March 2022.
The band are back at their most creative, flowery and playful – mirroring the 70’s melting pot of folk, symphonic, electronic, jazz, blues, funk & prog. On the new album they have looked for more organic and vintage sounds, still centered around the foundation of drums, bass, guitars and the iconic Hammond, grand piano, mellotron & Moog synthesizers.
The album also sees the return of founding member Michael Stolt, who takes up bass guitar and vocal duties which he splits with long-time member Jonas Reingold, alongside the line-up of Mirko DeMaio on drums, Zach Kamins on keyboards, Hasse Fröberg on vocal & guitar and Roine Stolt on vocal & guitars. The band convened in the middle of 2021 at Fenix Studios in Sweden to record through the fully analogue Rupert Neve mixing desk. The album also features beautiful cover art, once again created by Denver-based artist Kevin Sloan.
Next years tour will also see the band revisiting their early years, performing tracks from ‘Retropolis’, ‘Stardust We Are’, ‘Flower Power’, ‘Space Revolver’ and ‘Back In The World Of Adventures’. This will coincide with the release of newly remastered editions of The Flower Kings albums on CD & Vinyl later in 2022. The first confirmed live dates are as follows:
30th March 2022 – Katalin, Uppsala, Sweden
31st March 2022 – Musikens Hus, Gothenburg, Sweden
1st April 2022 - Södra Teatern, Stockholm, Sweden
Look out for more information on the new album, pre-orders and the first single on the 10th December.



Edited by infandous - December 08 2021 at 06:43
Back to Top
Catcher10 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: December 23 2009
Location: Emerald City
Status: Offline
Points: 17847 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Catcher10 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2021 at 17:01
New The Flower Kings album in early 2022.........
Back to Top
Catcher10 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: December 23 2009
Location: Emerald City
Status: Offline
Points: 17847 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Catcher10 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2021 at 12:53
Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Not sure if you guys watch any reaction videos on YT, but this guy is one of my favs. Doug has a doctorate in music, he composes music and has like 10yrs of schooling for his degree. I love that he dissects music and gives a perspective that for the unschooled music fan gives so much info on song creation. He also love lyrics and dives deep into the meanings.
He has been focusing a lot on progressive rock music. On Friday's he dedicates that to a long song/epics for a longer video. He has done Suppers Ready, CTTE, Octavarium, Spock's Beard......I am not sure I have seen any reactor do TFK..........This is excellent and he really sees how Roine creates such complex pcs and puts them together so very well
Enjoy!!
(BTW, I started a thread about his videos here if u wanna see more of them)



Hiya friends!

I've been getting back into Prog lately and have been enjoying Doug's Friday songs for a while now.  I was incredibly surprised when I saw TFK pop up on his radar and enjoyed the reaction imensely.

I'll echo what Catcher said above, Doug is a lot of fun to watch / listen to.  I don't listen to much on Youtube, Doug is one of the exceptions.

That being said, great to see this thread is still active.  It's what, like 13 years now!

I only do prog on M-W-F.....but I do The Flower Kings M-T-W-Th-F-S-Sun Tongue
Back to Top
Roland113 View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: March 30 2008
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Status: Offline
Points: 3843 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Roland113 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2021 at 07:49
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Not sure if you guys watch any reaction videos on YT, but this guy is one of my favs. Doug has a doctorate in music, he composes music and has like 10yrs of schooling for his degree. I love that he dissects music and gives a perspective that for the unschooled music fan gives so much info on song creation. He also love lyrics and dives deep into the meanings.
He has been focusing a lot on progressive rock music. On Friday's he dedicates that to a long song/epics for a longer video. He has done Suppers Ready, CTTE, Octavarium, Spock's Beard......I am not sure I have seen any reactor do TFK..........This is excellent and he really sees how Roine creates such complex pcs and puts them together so very well
Enjoy!!
(BTW, I started a thread about his videos here if u wanna see more of them)



Hiya friends!

I've been getting back into Prog lately and have been enjoying Doug's Friday songs for a while now.  I was incredibly surprised when I saw TFK pop up on his radar and enjoyed the reaction imensely.

I'll echo what Catcher said above, Doug is a lot of fun to watch / listen to.  I don't listen to much on Youtube, Doug is one of the exceptions.

That being said, great to see this thread is still active.  It's what, like 13 years now!
-------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob-------

I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms.
Back to Top
Hrychu View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: November 03 2013
Location: poland?
Status: Offline
Points: 5358 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hrychu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2021 at 13:41
You know what? I wish Roine Stolt would do a music production/mixing masterclass. xD
“On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.”
— Ernest Vong
Back to Top
Catcher10 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: December 23 2009
Location: Emerald City
Status: Offline
Points: 17847 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Catcher10 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2021 at 10:19
Not sure if you guys watch any reaction videos on YT, but this guy is one of my favs. Doug has a doctorate in music, he composes music and has like 10yrs of schooling for his degree. I love that he dissects music and gives a perspective that for the unschooled music fan gives so much info on song creation. He also love lyrics and dives deep into the meanings.
He has been focusing a lot on progressive rock music. On Friday's he dedicates that to a long song/epics for a longer video. He has done Suppers Ready, CTTE, Octavarium, Spock's Beard......I am not sure I have seen any reactor do TFK..........This is excellent and he really sees how Roine creates such complex pcs and puts them together so very well
Enjoy!!
(BTW, I started a thread about his videos here if u wanna see more of them)



Edited by Catcher10 - August 07 2021 at 10:20
Back to Top
A Crimson Mellotron View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 10 2020
Location: Bulgaria
Status: Offline
Points: 4132 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote A Crimson Mellotron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2021 at 04:59
^Last album was much better than 'Waiting for Miracles'; I think they kind of nailed the short song format with 'Islands', don't know why some people get grumpy about them... In fact, I don't understand why some people are grumpy about TFK at all!
Back to Top
yogev View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: February 09 2021
Location: Israel
Status: Offline
Points: 396 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote yogev Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2021 at 02:59
Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

Originally posted by infandous infandous wrote:

Originally posted by projeKct projeKct wrote:

I might be wrong, but I heard that the next TFK album would be less "song-based" and more "epic". Can anyone confirm?



That would be awesome!  I do really like Islands though, but I feel like some of those tracks could have been a lot longer and some themes and ideas could have been expanded on more.
I'm actually hoping for more of the same of the last two albums. I think Roine overdoes it when it comes to epics.

You're right. I also love the shorter songs like in island, they're very catchy and fun and Roine good at this style.
Back to Top
Catcher10 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: December 23 2009
Location: Emerald City
Status: Offline
Points: 17847 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Catcher10 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2021 at 02:17
Originally posted by infandous infandous wrote:

Originally posted by projeKct projeKct wrote:

I might be wrong, but I heard that the next TFK album would be less "song-based" and more "epic". Can anyone confirm?



That would be awesome!  I do really like Islands though, but I feel like some of those tracks could have been a lot longer and some themes and ideas could have been expanded on more.
I'm there too, I really like Islands and a few of those songs could have been 12-15min pcs and a couple 20 min epics.
The last Transatlantic left me kinda meh, although much better than Kaleidosope. More TFK is always a good thing!!
Back to Top
iluvmarillion View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: February 09 2010
Location: Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 3242 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote iluvmarillion Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2021 at 00:22
Originally posted by infandous infandous wrote:

Originally posted by projeKct projeKct wrote:

I might be wrong, but I heard that the next TFK album would be less "song-based" and more "epic". Can anyone confirm?



That would be awesome!  I do really like Islands though, but I feel like some of those tracks could have been a lot longer and some themes and ideas could have been expanded on more.
I'm actually hoping for more of the same of the last two albums. I think Roine overdoes it when it comes to epics.
Back to Top
infandous View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: March 23 2006
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 2447 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote infandous Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2021 at 11:08
Originally posted by projeKct projeKct wrote:

I might be wrong, but I heard that the next TFK album would be less "song-based" and more "epic". Can anyone confirm?



That would be awesome!  I do really like Islands though, but I feel like some of those tracks could have been a lot longer and some themes and ideas could have been expanded on more.


Edited by infandous - August 06 2021 at 11:08
Back to Top
projeKct View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Errors & Omissions Team

Joined: November 03 2013
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 2909 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote projeKct Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2021 at 07:51
They are in the recording studio... right now!

Here is a little tour of the studio:
Back to Top
miamiscot View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 23 2014
Location: Ohio
Status: Offline
Points: 3574 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote miamiscot Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2021 at 07:36
Originally posted by projeKct projeKct wrote:

I might be wrong, but I heard that the next TFK album would be less "song-based" and more "epic". Can anyone confirm?

I haven't heard that but I hope you're right. I love Islands but miss the epics!!!
The Prog Corner
Back to Top
projeKct View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Errors & Omissions Team

Joined: November 03 2013
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 2909 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote projeKct Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2021 at 17:59
I might be wrong, but I heard that the next TFK album would be less "song-based" and more "epic". Can anyone confirm?
Back to Top
miamiscot View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 23 2014
Location: Ohio
Status: Offline
Points: 3574 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote miamiscot Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2021 at 14:59
Islands was just awesome and Roine's contributions to the new Transatlantic album all seem to point to the new Flower Kings record being their late career masterpiece. Here's hoping!!!
The Prog Corner
Back to Top
infandous View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: March 23 2006
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 2447 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote infandous Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2021 at 11:09
Getting pretty quiet in here!  Haven't you all heard that TFK's are in the studio recording new material?  Not sure on release dates or anything, but I'm sure the web site or Roine's site or Roine's many FB pages will have that information.  Based on Islands, I'm actually looking forward to this one, which hasn't happened to me since Banks disappointed me.


Edited by infandous - July 28 2021 at 11:09
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 56789 487>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.490 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.