Artist description Skilled composer & rock musician formed 7 piece band. Core value is originality: fresh music with pert lyrics. First of all we want to make the music we like. Surely we hope you like it to, if not: we'll live, unstarving.

Music Style Free composed popmusic, progressive, symphonic, classical, jazz

Musical Influences Bach, Brahms, King crimson, Pat Metheny, Frank Zappa

Similar Artists Radiohead, King Crimson, Camel, van der Graaf Generator

Artist History It took years of broadening eachothers tastes in music before Jan Kuipers & Jos Witsenburg, former chemistry students, started making music together. Both were active in music on their own right: Jan composing & Jos in rockgroups. Jan & Jos signed up for Workshop Soundscape Amsterdam in 1995 (VPRO, NPS, Gaudeamus, IJsbreker, CEM studio's). They extended the original assignement by crossing the traditional non-music border of soundscape-art. Right after that Jan & Jos started making popmusic. 4 years were spent inventing a new mix of composed music & rock 'n' roll. 'Lunar escape velocity' (2001) is the unhip endresult of this period of frank exploration and fun. At this point, a bunch of musicians had gathered around them and they formed the skilled & dedicated group Fluxury. currently the band is working on new songs, prepared specially for these capable hands. the term 'Fluxury' stems from a poem by Jos about observing nature. It turned into a central song on 'Lunar escape velocity'. It's about the miraculous emergence of structure in a chaotic universe.

Group Members Jan Kuipers: musical leader / keyboards Jos Witsenburg: bassguitar / lyrics / management John Reker: guitar / vocals Marjon Bolck: lead vocals Stelios Kalis: drums Mattijs de Jong: guitarSabine Kuipers: keyboards / vocals

Instruments Complete rockband / occasional choir or symphonics

Albums Lunar escape velocity (2001)

Press Reviews Progressive Newsletter: '...der next big thing aus den Niederlanden ... einer Young Emerging Band ...' Sal Pichireddu Gnosis: '... relaxed & idiosyncratic music ... refreshing ...' Mike McLatchey Dutch Progressive Rock Pages: ' ... the future of progressive rock ... unique style...' Nigel Camilleri Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock: '... progressive in the true sense: unlike anything you ever heard before ...' Fred Trafton DME: '... 5-star progressive suite ... hazy idiosyncratic space ...' Dmitry M. Epstein Hairless Heart Herald: '... keeps your attention on full alert all the time ...' Danny Mayo Tarkus Magazine: '... first class prog-album ...' Sven Eriksen Oor: '... well-considered & carefully built songs ...' Frans Steensma Fluxury: '... symfonic: exploring techniques of melody-building and using complex harmonics ...' Jan Kuipers Fluxury: '... unhip endresult of a period of frank exploration & fun ...' Jos Witsenburg Background Magazine: '... talented band with good musicians ...' Carsten Busch iO Pages: '... transparant sound ... no traditional symfo ...' Antonie Deelen Progwereld: '... sound of the 60's and 70's ...' Ruud Stoker Mangog: '... great sense of continuity in style ...' Jim Miller Ytsejam: '... humorous, Zappa-esque lyrics ... unconventional ...' Jedd Beaudoin Detailed reviews and analysis at www.fluxury.nl

Additional Info new album (release early 2004) provisionally entitled 'Perishable goods'

Location Hilversum, NH - Netherlands

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