Roine Stolt

Roine Stolt
Roine Stolt in 2004
Background information
Birth name	Roine Stolt
Born	5 September 1956 (1956-09-05) (age 55) Uppsala, Sweden
Genres	Progressive rock, soft rock
Occupations	Guitarist, Musician, Songwriter, Composer, Producer
Instruments	Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards
Years active	1968–present
Labels	Foxtrot Music
Associated acts	Kaipa, Fantasia, Transatlantic, The Tangent, The Flower Kings, Agents of Mercy
Website	http://www.flowerkings.se [1]

Roine Stolt (born on September 5, 1956 in Uppsala) is a Swedish guitarist, vocalist and composer. A major figure in Sweden's rock history, guitarist/singer/composer Roine Stolt led two of his country's most successful progressive rock bands: Kaipa in the 1970s and The Flower Kings in the 1990s onward. His distinctive guitar style combined David Gilmour's debonair mid-tempo, Steve Howe's sharp edges, and Frank Zappa's virtuosity. His vision of a positive world governed by beauty (akin to Yes singer Jon Anderson) gives his music an aura that appeals to many progressive rock fans.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Discography 2.1 With Kaipa 2.2 With The Flower Kings 2.2.1 Studio albums 2.2.2 Live albums 2.2.3 Limited Edition Official Bootlegs 2.2.4 Fan Club Albums 2.2.5 Compilations 2.3 With The Tangent 2.4 With Transatlantic 2.5 With Agents of Mercy 2.6 With Circus Brimstone 2.7 With 3rd World Electric 2.8 Solo discography 2.9 Appears On 3 Family 4 References

Biography

Stolt started his career in the late 1960s playing bass guitar in local rock bands. He switched to guitar in 1973 and in the brief sojourn with Allman Brothers-influenced "Orexis". In 1974 he became the guitarist in Kaipa, a professional progressive rock band, he was 17 years old at that time, the group made three successful albums and toured more than 100 gigs a year, including national TV and radio performances in Scandinavia. These Kaipa albums are now reissued worldwide and are often regarded as the premier Scandinavian symphonic rock albums of the seventies. In 1979 he left Kaipa to form his own group Fantasia and made two albums. The group split up in 1983 and Roine started working as a solo and session musician, arranger and producer.

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It was at this point I felt I had really learned to master the guitar that my career as singer started on the 1985 album "Behind The Walls", which was a melodic and romantic album more in the style of Jackson Browne or Hall & Oates.

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-Roine Stolt on The Flower Kings website.

In the late 80's he started his own publishing and recording label called Foxtrot Music and was also involved in various projects including live performances and recording sessions with other artists going from symphonic rock towards more traditional rock, funk , pop, folk, blues and jazz. Under the "Stolt" project he release "The Lonely Heartbeat" in 1989, the sound is a mix of pop and complex rock.

Witnessing the progressive rock revival of the 1990s, a movement that partly originated from Sweden with bands like Landberk and Anglagard, Roine Stolt was quick to come back to his ancient love. Recruiting ex-Jonas Hellborg drummer Jaime Salazar and ex-Samla Mammas Manna percussionist Hasse Bruniusson, he released The Flower King in mid-August 1994. Stimulated by the warm response, he enlisted brother Michael Stolt (bass, vocals) and longtime friend Tomas Bodin (keyboards) and formed the Flower Kings, which would remain his principal musical project for years to come.

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It was an album that tried to unleash the forces of good in the negative, violent, aggressive, competitive music business of today. Reinstate the old hippie ideals, lyrically and musically.

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-Roine Stolt on The Flower King, from The Flower Kings website.

In 1998 he released his second solo album Hydrophonia which reveals major influences by early progressive musicians such as Frank Zappa and Steve Howe among others.

In the year 2000 Roine worked in two different projects, the supergroup Transatlantic, and the re-launch of Kaipa in which he was involved in three albums from 2002-2005. He re-entered the studio with Transatlantic in 2009, for an album release later in the year.

Discography

With Kaipa

• Kaipa (1975)
• Inget Nytt Under Solen (1976)
• Solo (1978)
• Notes From The Past (2002)
• Keyholder (2003)
• Mindrevolutions (2005)

With The Flower Kings

Studio albums

• Back in the World of Adventures (1995)
• Retropolis (1996)
• Stardust We Are (1997)
• Flower Power (1999)
• Space Revolver (2000)
• The Rainmaker (2001)
• Unfold the Future (2002)
• Adam & Eve (2004)
• Paradox Hotel (2006)
• The Sum Of No Evil (2007)

Live albums

• Alive on Planet Earth (2000)
• Meet the Flower Kings (2003)
• Instant Delivery (2006)

Limited Edition Official Bootlegs

• Édition Limitée Québec (1998)
• The Rainmaker Tour (2001)
• Live In New York - Official Bootleg (2002)
• BetchaWannaDanceStoopid!!! (2004)
• Carpe Diem - Live In USA 2006 (2008)

Fan Club Albums

• Fan Club 2000 (2000)
• Fan Club 2002 (2002)
• Fan Club 2004 (2004)
• Fan Club 2005 / Harvest (2005)

Compilations

• Scanning the Greenhouse (1998)
• The Road Back Home (2007)

With The Tangent

• The Music That Died Alone (2003)
• The World That We Drive Through (2004)
• Pyramids and Stars (2005 - live album)

With Transatlantic

• SMPT:e (2000)
• Live in America (2001)
• Bridge Across Forever (2001)
• SMPTe: The Roine Stolt Mixes (2003)
• The Transatlantic Demos (2003 - by Neal Morse)
• Live in Europe (2003)
• The Whirlwind (2009)

With Agents of Mercy

• The Fading Ghosts of Twilight (2009)
• Dramarama (2010)
• The Black Forest (2011)

With Circus Brimstone

• BrimStoned In Europe (2005)

With 3rd World Electric

• Kilimanjaro Secret Brew (2009)

Solo discography

• Fantasia (1979)
• Behind The Walls (1985)
• The Lonely Heartbeat (1989)
• The Flower King (1994)
• Hydrophonia (1998)
• Wallstreet Voodoo (2005)

Appears On

• Hasse Bruniusson - Flying Food Circus (2002)
• The Bollenberg Experience - If Only Stones Could Speak (2002)
• Karmakanic - Entering The Spectra (2003)
• Tomas Bodin - Sonic Boulevard (2003)
• Karmakanic - Wheel Of Life (2004)
• Tim Donahue - Madmen & Sinners (2004)
• Neal Morse - ? (2005)
• Karmakanic - Who's_the_Boss_in_the_Factory (2008)
• Parallel or 90 Degrees - Can of Worms: The Best of Po90 1996-2001 (2009)
• Supernal Endgame - Touch the Sky - Volume 1 (2009)

Family

Stolt has two sons, Johan Sebastian and Peter Gabriel, named after two of his all-time musical idols.

References

• Roine Stolt biography at The Flower Kings official site [2]
• Article in AMG by François Couture [3]

The Flower Kings Tomas Bodin • Hasse Bruniusson • Hasse Fröberg • Erik Hammarström • Ola Heden • Jonas Reingold • Roine Stolt Håkan Almkvist • Zoltan Csörsz • Daniel Gildenlöw • Marcus Liliequist • Jaime Salazar • Michael Stolt • Ulf Wallander Albums The Flower King • Back in the World of Adventures • Retropolis • Stardust We Are • Flower Power • Space Revolver • The Rainmaker • Unfold the Future • Adam & Eve • Paradox Hotel • The Sum of No Evil Live albums Alive on Planet Earth • Meet the Flower Kings • Instant Delivery Compilations Scanning the Greenhouse • The Road Back Home Related articles Kaipa • Karmakanic • The Tangent • Transatlantic

Transatlantic Neal Morse · Mike Portnoy · Roine Stolt · Pete Trewavas Daniel Gildenlöw (Touring Member) Studio albums SMPT:e · Bridge Across Forever · The Whirlwind Live albums Live in America · Live in Europe · Whirld Tour 2010: Live in London Other albums Bridge Across Europe Tour 2001 · SMPT:e - The Roine Stolt Mixes · Transatlantic Demos Associated Bands Spock's Beard · Dream Theater · Kaipa · The Flower Kings · Marillion

The Tangent Andy Tillison • Guy Manning • Theo Travis • Jonathan Barrett • Paul Burgess • Jakko Jakszyk Roine Stolt • David Jackson • Sam Baine • Zoltan Csörsz • Krister Jonsson • Jonas Reingold • Jaime Salazar • Rikard Sjöblom • David Zackrisson • Robert Hansen • Magnus Östgren Studio albums The Music That Died Alone (2003) • The World That We Drive Through (2004) • A Place in the Queue (2006) • Not as Good as the Book (2008) • Down and Out in Paris and London (2009) Live albums Pyramids and Stars (2004) · Going Off on One (2007) Related artists Beardfish

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