Transatlantic

Transatlantic – The Absolute Universe: The Breath Of Life (Abridged Version) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:18 minutes | 856 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock
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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. “We have actually come up with something unprecedented,” says Portnoy proudly. “We’ve got two versions of this album. There’s a two CD presentation (‘Forevermore’), which is 90 minutes long, and a single one (‘The Breath Of Life’) – that’s 60 minutes. The single CD is NOT an edited version of the double CD. They’re new recordings. What we have done are different approaches to the songs for this! We wrote fresh lyrics and have different people singing on the single CD version tracks as compared to those on the double CD. We revamped the songs to make the two versions different.”

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Transatlantic – The Absolute Universe: Forevermore (Extended Version) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:30:23 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © InsideOutMusic

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. “We have actually come up with something unprecedented,” says Portnoy proudly. “We’ve got two versions of this album. There’s a two CD presentation (‘Forevermore’), which is 90 minutes long, and a single one (‘The Breath Of Life’) – that’s 60 minutes. The single CD is NOT an edited version of the double CD. They’re new recordings. What we have done are different approaches to the songs for this! We wrote fresh lyrics and have different people singing on the single CD version tracks as compared to those on the double CD. We revamped the songs to make the two versions different.” 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.”

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Transatlantic – The Final Flight: Live At L’Olympia (Live in Paris 2022) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:49:57 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © InsideOutMusic

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 audio/visual document presents the band at their most majestic.

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