Looking For The Rainbow

Transatlantic have never been a band to resist a challenge so it should come as no surprise that for their fifth album The Absolute Universe, Neal Morse Roine Stolt Pete Trewavas and Mike Portnoy have really gone out to do something a little unusual.
For this record, the band have also returned to the concept album format: “What we have is essentially one giant composition, split into chapters. The storyline is about the struggles facing everyone in society today” comments Portnoy. “We didn’t start out with the idea of this being conceptual,” admits Stolt. “The way things work with us is that we have a load of ideas, and these are developed spontaneously when we meet up. Everything happens in the moment.” For Trewavas, The Absolute Universe is a momentous project. “I think it is right up there with the very finest albums we’ve done.”

This is a long album you need to enjoy on a road trip. Sink into it and enjoy it like a long, rambling conversation with a good friend, and then listen to it a few more times. The musicianship is fantastic. The lyrics - darned fine…

Following the release of 2021's ambitious studio album "The Absolute Universe", progressive-rock supergroup Transatlantic present "The Final Flight: Live At L'Olympia". A document of the bands triumphant show in Paris, the last night of their tour in support of their most recent studio album, it sees Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Roine Stolt & Pete Trewavas (along with Ted Leonard) performing the entirety of "The Absolute Universe (The Ultimate Version)", before returning to the stage to perform some of their extensive back catalogue. A night as special as they come, this document presents the band at their most majestic.

Transatlantic - the celebrated progressive rock supergroup featuring members past and present of Marillion, Dream Theater, Spock's Beard and The Flower Kings - are pleased to present a new concert set entitled ‘The Final Flight: Live At L’Olympia’. It was recorded and filmed in France on the last stop of a tour to promote the band's fifth and most audacious album to date, 'The Absolute Universe’. This was the multinational group’s first outing in eight years. Released in February 2021 to unanimous praise, ‘The Absolute Universe' came in two alternate formats; an abridged 64-minute record known as ‘The Breath Of Life’, and a companion piece entitled ‘Forevermore’ that added a further four songs, clocking in at an hour and a half. Though the foundations of both were shared, each format featured lyrics and music independent of the other.