Finnegans Wake

Finnegans Wake was founded in 1993 by Henry Krutzen and Alain Lemaître , in Brussels, Belgium. The idea was to make progressive rock with influences from the 70s Canterbury Bands and modal jazz. Soon it turned out to be more influenced by contemporary classical music and electronics. After two first albums on Mellow Rec., FW moved to Musea and finally to Carbon-7 belgian label. As Henry Krutzen moved to Brazil in 2001, the band last CD had some group changes : keyboardist Jean-Louis Aucremanne left and guitarist Alexandre Moura-Barros entered the band. This new experience oriented furthermore the band's directions into "chamber rock", which should be more developed in the future with the arrival, in 2007, of Marcílio Onofre on piano and keyboards. Richard Redcrossed wrote all lyrics of the 4 albums and was Finnegans Wake singer on "Pictures" and "4th". See Richard 's page on Myspace.

Alexandre Johnson entered the band in 2007; he has a master in music and is flute/recorder professor at the University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil). Alexandre Johnson took part of many projects, from classical works to Brazilian instrumental music and North-eastern folk music. His latest project, to be released, is about bossa nova, "frevo" and "chorinho" pieces.

Henry Krutzen produced solo works, initiated with the 1980 "Silances" concrete experimental work, his Canterbury-like "Iceland" CD on Mellow Rec, classical piano pieces with "Che Vuoi?", chamber music with minimalism influences on the double "Play La Chance" and two electronics projects under the name Xeno.See Henry Krutzen and Xeno 's pages on Myspace.

Alain Lemaître played bass in various funk and "chanson française" bands in Belgium before founding Finnegans Wake with Henry Krutzen in 1993.

Alexandre Moura-Barros studied music at the university of Uberlândia (Brazil). As music teacher, he taught electric guitar, electric bass and harmony in various schools of music in Brazil. Working as an arranger for various brazilian artists he played guitar in many bands.

Marcílio Onofre is an active Brazilian composer, pianist and music theorist. For complete biography, See Marcílio Onofre page on Myspace.

Xóchil A. Schütz is a german poetess that entered the band in 2007. She's Finnegans Wake lyricist and her participation will appear on the next Cd, to be released in 2008. See Xóchil page on myspace.

Discography:

- 1994: « Yellow » (Mellow MMP 256)
- 1998: « Green » (Mellow MMP 321)
- 2001: « Pictures » (Gazul / Musea GA 8649 AR)
- 2004: « 4th » (Carbon-7 C7-071/072)
- 2008: « Blue « (to be released on AltrOck in 2008)

For complete Krutzen discography, see Henry Krutzen page on Myspace