Transatlantic

Daniel Gildenlöw, Mike Portnoy, Pete Trewavas, Neal Morse and Roine Stolt

Last week was a mind blowing week here at Hothouse Studios. Progressive Rock Super Group Transatlantic featuring Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse of Spock's Beard, Marillion's Pete Trewavas and Roine Stolt from the Flower Kings locked out studio one (aka the auditorium) to rehearse for their world tour in support of their newly released reunion album "The Whirlwind".

Almost a decade has passed since their last live appearance together but this spring Mike, Neal, Pete and Roine found a nice little window in their schedules to make this world tour happen. To our great fortune the wait is finally now over and the Whirld Tour 2010 is on its way. Daniel Glidenlow of Pain of Salvation joined the guys as an additional touring member for the tour and the rehearsals were intense and fun all mixed in time.

With The Whirlwind, Transatlantic has pulled out all the stops! Their first two albums expanded the boundaries of Progressive Rock with songs like 'Stranger in Your Soul' that spans some 30 minutes. Then, nine years later the band comes back with a walloping triumphant record that is one piece of music sprawling over 78 minutes in length! This is unprecedented, and the sheer brilliance of it is that it flows like a Progressive Rock symphony, taking the listener from shadow to glory and back again. What a tremendous whirlwind of music this is!

The show at the Downey Theater was phenomenal as they performed to the note the entire new LP Whirlwind as the opening song.

Learn more about Transatlantic here.
Take a look at our photo gallery for photos of Transatlantic during rehearsals in studio one “the Auditorium”. Click here.

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