Artist: THE FLOWER KINGS
Album: THE ROAD BACK HOME (2CD)

Year: 2007
Media type: CD

With ‘The Road Back Home’ Roine Stolt and his Flower Kings present their first best-of album – in fact hard to believe. While other bands in the fast-moving music business decide to produce such an album after their second or third release, these Swedes had no less than eleven studio albums preceding. For this album, chief flower king Roine Stolt has chosen 27 songs from a rich source of song material and remixed them to a great extent.

For those who do not know these exemplary proggers from the country of elks and meat balls by now, or only have heard of them, or even avoided them, dreading the all too complex song structures, ‘The Road Back Home’ should be a perfect start to get a foot into their music – and at the same time they will teach you better: songs like the groovy-danceable ‘Cosmic Lover’, the blues-rocking ‘Paradox Hotel’, the prog anthems ‘A King’s Prayer’ and ‘Stardust We Are’ and the carefully constructed ‘The Road Back Home’ with a unique saxophone solo speak for themselves. In any case, you can expect brilliant melodies. That these are wrapped up in a not too ordinary arrangement and have been transformed by virtuoso musicians constitute the band’s entire appeal.

‘The Road Back Home’ is available as a remastered double CD in a slipcase packaging. A cover version of the Genesis classic ‘The Cinema Show’, which has not appeared on any Flower Kings album yet, makes this compilation complete.

TRACKLIST CD 1:

01. Cosmic Lover
02. A Kings Prayer
03. Stupid Girl
04. Cosmic Circus
05. Babylon
06. Paradox Hotel
07. World Without A Heart
08. Church Of Your Heart
09. Vox Humana
10. What If God Is Alone
11. Starlight Man
12. Grand Old World
13. The Road Back Home
14. Cinema Show

TRACKLIST CD 2:

01. Ghost Of The Red Cloud
02. Painter
03. I Am The Sun (part 2)
04. Different People
05. Little Deceiver
06. Chickenfarmer Song
07. The Rhythm Of The Sea
08. Touch My Heaven
09. Life Will Kill You
10. Monkey Business
11. Compassion
12. The Flower King
13. Stardust We Are

LINE-UP:

Roine Stolt (Guitars, Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals)
Tomas Bodin (Keyboards)
Hasse Froberg (Guitar, Vocals)
Jaime Salazar (Drums)
Zoltan Csorsz (Drums)
Marcus Liliequist (Drums)
Michael Stolt (Bass)
Jonas Reingold (Bass)
Hasse Bruniusson (Percussion)
Ulf Wallander (Soprano Saxophone)
Hakan Almkvist (Tabla, Sitar)
Daniel Gildenlow (Vocals)