TRANSATLANTIC - the Prog Supergroup of Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Roine Stolt & Pete Trewavas recently announced
the release of a new concert set entitled '

The Final Flight: Live At L'Olympia' for the 17th February 2023. 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.

"I walked off the stage in Paris and knew it was the end of the tour, also quite possibly of the band," Stolt volunteers. "Were we to do this again we'd be really old guys. For me, it felt like the end. There was magic in the air."

"People felt like they were witnessing the end of something in Paris," Portnoy adds. "It was TRANSATLANTIC's equivalent of The Beatles up on the roof of their Apple HQ [in 1969]. Playing at the Olympia on a stage which had previous featured The Beatles, Hendrix and Led Zeppelin felt very significant. There was such a lot of love in the room."

"The Olympia is steeped in history," Trewavas agrees. "Playing there was a bit of a bucket list moment for me, especially as it felt like we had probably come to the end of the road [with TRANSATLANTIC] – it was a beautiful end to the tour."

"The Paris gig was the end of a chapter, though whether it turns out the last chapter of the book is something that only time will tell," Portnoy theorizes. "How do you follow an album that's two different releases – one of which is a double album? Where on earth could you possibly go from there?"

"We all say never say never [about doing it again], but if it is the end of TRANSATLANTIC then with the live album we've set a very high watermark," Morse believes. "At the Paris show each of us wept tears of joy."



Tracklisting:

The Absolute Universe Intro

Overture

Reaching For The Sky

Higher Than The Morning

The Darkness In The Light

Take Now My Soul

Bully

Rainbow Sky

Looking For The Light

The World We Used To Know

MP Intro

The Sun Comes Up Today

Love Made A Way (Prelude)

Owl Howl

Solitude

Belong

Lonesome Rebel

Can You Feel It

Looking For The Light (Reprise)

The Greatest Story Never Ends

Love Made A Way

The Whirlwind Suite

NM & RS Intro

We All Need Some Light

The Final Medley

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