Zoltan Csörsz returns to TFK!

Straight from Roine:

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 (april 2nd 2007) .

Most certainly not a joke.  I've seen pictures of Zoltan in the studio, and everything checks out...  not to mention, this was on 2 April, not 1 April.

I'm the biggest TFK fan on ProgArchives, I would most certainly -not- joke about something like this

I'm listening to Meet The Flower Kings in celebration...  Zoltan's drumming on The Truth just SLAYS     

So the Mad Hungarian is back! A little hun is going to kick even harder  than ever before. Yummy!

Edited by tszirmay - April 02 2007 at 21:09

Great news , but will it mean KARMAKANIC's so called new album [look at the web site to see just how 'new'] will finally be finished ? Does anyone know?

Man, I like this!!!! The description of the new album sounds awesome. Thanks for the information.

E

Oh... Zoltan is a good drummer, no doubt. But I think that Marcus' drumming was better, I love Paradox Hotel and his jazzy drums...

But, now I think TFK will return to UTF-days and it sound exciting because UTF is my fav TFK album...

Good luck Roine, hope that you won't dissapoint me...

laplace wrote: YAY