Roine Stolt

Infobox musical artist
Name = Roine Stolt

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Img_capt = Roine Stolt in 2004
Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Roine Stolt
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Born = birth date and age|1956|9|5|df=y
Uppsala, Sweden
Died =
Instrument = Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboard
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Genre = Progressive rock,soft rock
Occupation = Guitarist, Musician, Songwriter, composer, Producer
Years_active = 1968 - present
Label = Foxtrot Music
Associated_acts = Kaipa, Fantasia, Transatlantic (band), The Tangent, The Flower Kings
URL = http://www.flowerkings.se [http://www.flowerkings.se/?s=biography&p=roine]
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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) gave his music an aura that appealed to many progressive rock fans.

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.

cquote|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 and Oates. -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.

cquote|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. -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 a project that went until 2003, and the re-launch of Kaipa in which he worked for one album released in 2002.

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

tudio 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)
* "" (2003)
* "The Transatlantic Demos" (2003 - by Neal Morse)
* "Live in Europe" (2003)

olo Discography

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

Trivia

* Roine 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 [http://www.flowerkings.se/?s=biography&p=roine]
*Article in AMG by François Couture [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hzfwxqujldte~T1]