Artist: Flower Kings
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Progressive
Discography:
Adam and Eve
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Unfold the future
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
The Rainmaker
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Flower Power
Year: 1999
Tracks: 31
Spase Revolver
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Flower Power part 2
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Flower Power part 1
Year: 1998
Tracks: 21
Stardust We Are
Year: 1997
Tracks: 20
Retropolis
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Back in the world of Adventures
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
The songs
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
Rare
Year:
Tracks: 9
Sweden played a authoritative part in the progressive rock revitalisation of the 1990s, only amid dark-sounding King Crimson-influenced bands like Anekdoten and Anglagard, the positive-thinking Yes-enlightened play the Flower Kings mat about out of home. Yet, the Flower Kings became, along with the American Spock's Beard, the '90s prog rock candy band with the largest winnow base, the biggest gross revenue, and the widest international appeal.
The Flower Kings came to life-time in August 1994, but retrospectively, their first base album came prohibited before their origin. That twelvemonth, guitarist/singer/composer Roine Stolt, world Health Organization enjoyed congeneric European celebrity in the 1970s as a member of the Swedish progressive rock and roll dance orchestra Kaipa, brought together ex-Jonas Hellborg drummer Jaime Salazar and ex-Samla Mammas Manna percussionist Hans Bruniusson to record book a solo album, The Flower King. Stolt's music was graced by a Jon Anderson-like aura and combined building complex structures with catchy devout melodies, and the prog fans welcomed the record album with undefendable blazon. Roine brought in pal Michael Stolt (freshwater bass, vocals) and longtime friend Tomas Bodin (keyboards) to execute the material live, and thence the Flower Kings were born and The Flower King, the album, is now commonly sensed as the band's first-class honours degree.
Back in the World of Adventures was released in November 1995 on the band's possess label, Foxtrot Music, and contained the stage favorite "Big Puzzle," patch the Flower Kings started to circuit in Europe. It was shortly followed by Retropolis (Crataegus laevigata 1996), the band's most '70s-influenced record album to particular date, which yielded "The Judas Kiss" and "In that location Is More to This World," still arguably one of their best anthems. Retropolis helped the Flower Kings contact Japan, South America, and North America (especially Quebec). The mammoth two-CD put Stardust We Are, which included "In the Eyes of the World," "Church of Your Heart," and the 25-minute epical "Stardust We Are," was released in 1997. With four albums (including nonpareil twofold CD) released in less than four-spot age, music critics around the creation started to admiration how Roine Stolt managed to write this fast. Obvious filler material on Stardust We Are had the great unwashed intellection the isthmus should make been a bit more selective and made it a one-CD liaison. Still, the band's fan base was growing, as were the gross sales. A compiling album, Scanning the Greenhouse (containing a fantastic rendering of Genesis' "The Cinema Show") was released to machinate Americans for the band's first U.S. circuit, and a limited edition CD containing live improvisations and unreleased tracks was issued by Ipso Facto for the Quebec market, spell Roine Stolt released his critically acclaimed solo album Hydrophonia -- all in a year's work.
Another two-CD set, Flower Power, byword the light of clarence Day in early 1999. Even more ambitious, it contained the 60-minute retinue "Garden of Dreams" and the quirky "Psychedelic Postcard," which paid tribute to one of Roine's principal (although rarely detected) influences: Frank Zappa. Flower Power was the band's first album to be released in the U.S. by Inside Out Music America, which acquired rights to the band's fill in catalog for domestic distribution. The Flower Kings' first live album, Live on Planet Earth, was released in 2000 patch Roine was touring with the supergroup Transatlantic (with Pete Trewavas of Marillion, Neal Morse of Spock's Beard, and Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater). A novel studio apartment album, coroneted Infinite Revolver, followed later on that class with bassist Jonas Reingold replacing Michael Stolt. Open the Future appeared in 2002, with the live put Meet the Flower Kings following in 2003. Paradox Hotel was released in 2006.
