For all you FK fans out there!
Pete
>New Flower Kings album Paradox Hotel
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>The Flower Kings have finished recording songs for the new album in the Medley studio in Denmark and all is on the mixing desk now. A release is expected on March 24, 2006. Afterwards a tour will follow in the USA, Europe and possibly Japan to promote the album and to meet the substantial fan base!
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>Some words from Roine (The Flower King himself) about the album: "Regarding this new album it is all an experiment and in fact quite daring. Band members have contributed a bit more than normal and it is mostly recorded together live in Medley studios in Denmark.
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>It will consist of 15-17 songs ranging from 3 minutes to 21 minutes. Vocals are equally shared between me and Hasse Froberg, there might be a chance of other guest appearances ... but even rest of bandmembers join in some choirwork.
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>I think it's safe to say it will be a double album. The title will be Paradox Hotel, the cover is made by Andres Valle from Argentina and the album is being released in Europe on March 24th.
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>The songs are perhaps a bit more mellow and sometimes very psychedelic leaning more towards Walrus era Beatles than ELP or Genesis prog. We have a few instrumentals and some real quirky stuff but not really jazzy, more like avantgarde or freeky prog stuff, plus more of the cinematic drama ..... and we have bombasm !!!
>Mr Bruniusson mention both Gentle Giant and King Crimson when he heard a few of the songs he's supposed to do a bit of marimba etc. on ..... I suspect he's right.
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>There is a throwback in the Keyboard department to classical progsounds. We've used both real distorted Wurlizer and Grandpiano a lot, moogsounds and of course Tomas gorgeous Hammond playing, to top it there is more mellotron than ever .
>So I guess what I'm saying is that this will sound less 2006 and more 1974 ... in a way. Personally I view this as our "White Album" and stylisticlly it's probably closer to Flower Power or Retropolis than Unfold The Future or Adam & Eve, that's how I hear it."
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>To top this, Jonas was proud to mention that he contributed with two songs that he wrote and he also did the backing vocals on at least one track. He's not sure about what will show up on the final release.
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