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How cool! Co-founder and original lead singer of Yes, Jon Anderson, has joined forces with prog-rocks Roine Stolt, of The Flower Kings, and together as Anderson / Stolt, are releasing a new studio release called; Anderson / Stolt - The Invention Of Knowledge. Comes out the 24th of June, via InsideOut Music. News about the project been out for a while before I got wind of it. Being a music reviewer, and having made a reputation for myself focusing on progressive rock music, and because of already being a fan of Jon Anderson, and Roine Stolt, I immediately began emailing around to see how quick I could acquire an advanced copy. The idea, so I could get a write up on it, out it's first week of release. Ends up I score, so now all I have to do …show more content…

Results have been good, so I don't try rushing the process any. As a rule, I only write when inspired. I have to be keen the on subject matter, or the writing thing just don't happen. I give the new Anderson / Stolt two consecutive plays, and decide I can work with it. But I don't have three weeks to spend on the new Anderson / Stolt album. As it stands now, it comes out in less then a week., and here I am, just receiving it. I again tell myself that it be nice to have a write up on it, the first week of release. With that in mind, I accept the …show more content…

While the music plays, I start researching. I come across a couple quotes from Jon Anderson, and Roine Slolt included in a press release about the project:

Jon: ".....Music is always the driving force in my life...working with such a wonderful musician as Roine Stolt made the creation of this album very unique. We are very excited with the release of 'Invention of Knowledge'."

Roine Stolt adds: "It is not aiming at being new Yes music; just new music, modern and classical, rock and ethno, tribal and orchestrated, grooving and floating. Hopefully in the true spirit of "progressive" - leaning forward, surprising and also comforting with familiar run-arounds. We've been "inventing" as we go along - Jon is an endless source of new ideas. We've been bouncing ideas back and forth for months and as a result there are probably dozens of versions of these songs. It's been a very interesting and rewarding time and the result is just insanely detailed."

“I worked with The Flowers Kings duo of Jonas Reingold on bass and Felix Lehrmann on drums, with Tom Brislin on keyboards. Tom had done the Yes Symphonic Tour, and I knew him well. It was important for me to be comfortable with the musicians at this stage, because that way I was more relaxed about telling them how we wanted it all to sound. If I had been in the studio with people who were strangers, then I might have felt more

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