Genre: Prog rock
Places I remember: Fopp (Covent Garden)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Chase and Harmony (from Knowing)
Gear costume: Everybody Heals
Active compensatory factors: Jon Anderson has one of those voices that is instantly recognisable. It doesn't matter much if he's performing with Yes or solo, or, as in this case, in collaboration with others.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Chase and Harmony (from Knowing)
Gear costume: Everybody Heals
Active compensatory factors: Jon Anderson has one of those voices that is instantly recognisable. It doesn't matter much if he's performing with Yes or solo, or, as in this case, in collaboration with others.
I'm a fan but I understand how it's an acquired taste - liking one vocalist, but disliking another is in the ear of the beholder after all.
Roine Stolt is a Swedish prog musician who has had two significant bands - Kaipa in the seventies, and now The Flower Kings.
This album is a collaboration between Anderson and Stolt, two big names in prog, but also features members of Stolt's band.
It's a very successful venture. The music has prog flourishes but doesn't sound like Yes, while Jon Anderson sounds like Jon Anderson and his lyrics are the usual hippy cosmic-centred vibe he's made his own over the years.
My one gripe is that the music floats by in four lengthy suites, without being distinctive enough to hook inside my brain. That makes it difficult to highlight some 'songs' to highlight.
That said, it sounds brilliant!
Where do they all belong? A one off project from Anderson and Stolt.
Where do they all belong? A one off project from Anderson and Stolt.
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