When Prog checks in with Roine Stolt, he’s in fine form. The Flower Kings mainman is anticipating the release of his band’s 16th studio album and he’s just recently seen friend and collaborator Jon Anderson’s Close To The Edge 51st anniversary live show in his native Uppsala. He has much to say about their ongoing work together (of which more later). He also has comments about the apparently defunct Transatlantic’s swansong tour and rumoured last ever concert, recorded for posterity as The Final Flight, plus The Flower Kings’ reissue programme.
But, amid arrangements he’s making for his primary band’s autumn tour, he’s buzzing about the new album Look At You Now and reacts with delight when told this writer’s eight-year-old described the record as “forest music, because you’re surrounded and there’s lots of different things to look at”.
“That’s beautiful,” he says with a smile. “I think that’s really
