Roine Stolt (The Flower Kings (TFK), Transatlantic, Agents of Mercy and Kaipa is a Swedish guitarist, singer and composer and is an important figure in Swedish rock history. He led two of his country's most successful progressive rock bands: Kaipa in the 1970s and The Flower Kings in the 1990s to the present. Called Roine Stolt's The Flower King, "Manifesto Of An Alchemist" offers ten songs and nearly seventy minutes of playing time in the style Stolt is best known for: progressive rock, lavishly orchestrated with all the trademark elements of four decades of prog. 'The circle is round; where the adventure started in 1994 with "The Flower King" there is now finally a worthy successor, albeit almost twenty-five years later and many personnel changes later. On this new album, as the name suggests, he is the undisputed, sovereign ruler: there is only one real Flower King. It had to be that way.'(Progwereld)