Bacchus Da Musica, december 6th 2008


Melanie Bakker: keyboards 2008














Pleintheater Amsterdam 2005


De Peppel, Zeist 2005(p: A. Haggenburg)




Fluxury rehearsal 2005.


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Fibonacci mathematics, DvD outtakes


Fluxury studio guest lady singers:
Marjon Bolck, Patricia Beerens, Thea van Rijen






Live at Patrick & Sabine's wedding






Fluxury live on NederSymfo Nite 2


Joeri & Els, the video team


Rehearsal sunday at Simon's


John & Mattijs in "snaren repititie"


drums recording session for Perishable goods


Fluxury live: Boerderij podiumcafe


Fluxury 2003 at Simons parking space





Fluxury live 2003


Ilse Kunst


Marjon Bolck, lead vocals.


getting the idea accross


drums: Stelios Kalis



Femme, Carolien and Ronald in action.
Jos Witsenburg & John Reker / Sabine Kuipers

Live 2010

welcome Mireille

We found the perfect singer to complete our line-up. Mireille van Leeuwen has a warm soulful voice and has a lot of experience singing a wide range of styles, classical, rock and pop. She's currently absorbing the songs on the new setlist. 2009-10.

back in the band

after a 4 year leave of absence guitarist Mattijs de Jong is back with Fluxury. His return marks a shift in our live approach, necessitated by Jan's hearing loss: from now on concerts will be moderately amplified and partly supported by animated visuals. 2009-09.


Fluxury live 2008: Jan & Jetse. (7 pictures by: A. Haggenburg).

keyboard story

auch

Composer / keyboard player Jan suffers from hearing loss. He decided to quit the loudness. Unless we find a fitting keyboards player we'll only play soft sunday afternoon concerts soon (april 08).

easing down

Due to Jan's hearing loss we experimented with semi-acoustical instrumentation (jun 2008). It improved the dynamics of our playing but we decided to stick to amplified rock music. Let's find a keyboards player.

Melanie

18 year old Melanie Bakker is our new keys player. See picture on the right (june 08). The first gig with Melanie was in Leiden. It was an 18 minute - 4 song gig on a cultural event. We shared the stage with a fairy tale teller, a poet, another story teller and a singer songwriter.

America

Melanie was asked to live in the US for 7 months. We decided to move on without her (nov 08). We'll go and search for a keyboards player again.

last concert

After searching for 6 months for a fitting replacement we decided to close this line-up with a concert in cultural cafe Bacchus. We played a solid 75 minute set, a fitting goodbye to Jan who won't play amplified keys anymore before nanotechnology brings back Jan's hearing.


2007 line-up rehearsal at Pablo's

studio vs live

On albums we like multi-layering. On stage we simplify songs for instant fun. No polyrhythmics in Me, the enemy, an extra chorus & verse in Tucked away and After the revolution etc.

Live 2007/8

NederSymfo Nite 4

On 23-05-08 we hosted the 4th version of NederSymfo Nite in de Peppel, Zeist. We shared the stage with WaveWorld, Kramer and LadyLake.

Winston Amsterdam

On 20-01-08 we played in Winston Club with R!fe from Lelystad for 60 people. Winston is the perfect live venue: great sound - on stage and in the audience - thanks to a no-bulshit sound engineer.

Dudok Hilversum

After a private try-out at Pablo's studio in Amsterdam (02-12-07) for friends & family our first public gig was at Hilversum Dudok cafe (15-12-07). Outside it poured with rain and inside about 75 people attended our one-hour show. Thank you all for your cheers and applause. We had a great time.

the line-up

Jetse van der Moolen (guitars); Jos Witsenburg (bass, lyrics); Susan Verheijen (lead vocals); Jan Kuipers (composition, keys), Stelios Kalis (drums).

the songs

Drexler's curse - Me, the enemy - After the revolution - Unreality - Interior decorator blues - Nothing's safe - Dry heaven - Tucked away - Perishable goods - Shine!.


Fluxury live 2008: Jetse, Susan & Jos (Pic: A. Haggenburg).

Fluxury 2007

There's no denying it: we miss the dynamics of the band. Just the studio is not enough. We're gonna start a new band.

Join Fluxury!

Stelios (drums), Jan (keys) and Jos (bass) are looking for a guitar player (M/V) and a singer (V) to complete the band. Experience is needed. From 2007 on we want to play live 3-6 times per year. Interested? Mail us: jos at fluxury dot nl.

Auditions closed

Since april 2007 we're a complete band again. Susan Heijen (vocals: sample) and guitarist Jetse van der Moolen joined Jan, Jos and Stelios. We focus on playing a solid set of existing songs before we move on to new music.


L2R: Jan Kuipers (composer, keyboards) - Susan Heijen (lead vocals) - Stelios Kalis (drums) - Jos Witsenburg (lyrics, bass) - Jetse van der Moolen (guitars).

Live 2005/6

No rockgroup this season but something new: a combination of mellow vocal oriented symphonic music and video. Synchronised clips and animations support the live music. With two new musicians and a video artist we created this season's show using 4 brandnew songs, 2 Lunar escape velocity tracks and one from Perishable goods.
Sent to about 300 people: Newsletter 4 (NL).


Fluxury october 2005

the line-up

L2R: Eric Verbruggen (guitars); Jos Witsenburg (bass, lyrics); Marjolein van Tongeren (lead vocals); Jan Kuipers (composition, keys), Stelios Kalis (drums).

the songs

Sundance - Interior decorator blues - Dry heaven - Drexler's curse - In silence we trust - Unreality - After the revolution - Me, the enemy. (05-05)

NederSymfo Nite 3 - de Peppel

The 3rd edition of NederSymfo Nite was a wonderful evening. Many thanks to Knight Area; Mangrove; Fluxury; Han-s-olo (Hans vd Lint & Ron Mozer of Faf) and Peppel crew for your effort. And thank you people for showing up and cheering the acts. It was great to play with/for you. Friday 09-12-2005 20:00, De Peppel, Montaubanstraat 106, Zeist. Door: € 8,-

Pleintheater Amsterdam

On 16 december 2005 we played the first of two duo-gigs called 'Music meets Video' together with Kramer.

Atlantis Alkmaar

On thursday night 12 januari 2006 we did the second duo gig. Only 15 people attended. Fluxury disbanded as live group to concentrate on the next studio release.


Fluxury october 2005

Fibonacci

Jan is creating a 100% computer animated dance suite; animation and music showcase the magic of Fibonacci numbers. (01-05)
On stage, the song 'Sundance' will be supported by video material from this dance suite. (06-05)

Perishable goods is out!

A twelve song symfony involving baroque, energetic rock with daring harmonics and some tender folk balads. More: details.

latest review

'progressive: musically & politically ... great album. no. beyond great. essential. ... melodic hooks burned into my brain and still haunt me' Fred Trafton (GEPR 20/7/2006)

the story

The release of 'Perishable goods' ended an intense creative period. When the material grew over 90 minutes we decided on a split. 'Perishable goods' is only part 1 of the 'End of privacy suite'. (10-05)

available via

Musea Records; Syn-phonic; ProgWalhalla; Beyond rock; Music store or contact us.


We proudly present...

Guest vocals

The release of Perishable goods is posponed due to re-recording of all vocals. A job done by a selection of great singers: Thea van Rijen, Marjon Bolck, Patricia Beerens (Davy J.), Marjolein van Tongeren (Vocal affairs). (12-04)

Booomm

Fluxury the 7-p combo disintegrated. Ilse and John left the group explosively. Mattijs and Sabine decided to quit also. We called it a day. (10-04)

Live 2004

This incarnation was ambitious, a crazy and funny gang of people.

the line-up

L2R: Mattijs de Jong (guitar) - John Reker (guitar & vocals) - Stelios Kalis (drums) - Ilse Kunst (lead vocals) - Sabine Kuipers (keys) - Jan Kuipers (keys) - Jos Witsenburg (bassguitar) - Leon Eliens (sound, not visible)

setlist

Lookup - After the revolution - Light of other days - Remember a face - Tucked away - Shine! - Pretty perfect - Safety first - In silence we trust - Me, the enemy - Nothing's safe - Perishable goods

Kuipers' place

It was a beautiful crispy cold and sunny day when Sabine and Patrick got married (februari 20 2004). And it turned out to be a warm and friendly party that night. Fluxury played from 8 to 9 with Sabine in full marital dress. Later that night Lurch played 3 rocky sets. Thank you: Els Witsenburg & Joeri Hierck (video) - Patrick and Sabine (nice opportunity).

September 10 2004

To make sure the complete one-hour set went smoothly on NederSymfo Nite 2 the next week we did a try-out at Marjan's where we played twice before. We started at 22:00 and about 20 people attended. It was also the very first presentation of the 'Me, the enemy' mini-album CD of which we actually sold 4 or 5 copies. A simple soundcheck (without Leon), no pictures, no recordings, no hassle. We played without problems and had a bowl of soup afterwards. Thank you: Andries de Jong (cheer) - Jeanet van den Wildenberg (4 types of food, all good) - Marjan Venderbosch (host - barlady - soup).

Nedersymfo Nite 2 - Tagrijn

The NederSymfo Nite crowd enjoyed the 4 shows. Tagrijn provided decent light & sound. Fluxury played better than ever; Ilse develops into an enchanting stage diva. It was a thrilling gig. Thank you Ulysses, Wave World & For absent friends for the wonderfull event, it was great to play with you. (09-04)
Hollands leading music magazine Oor published a wonderfull review on the 2nd NederSymfo Nite: '... topavond...'. (10-04)

Symfo Rock Festival

Amstelveens cultural center P60 said yes to a Fluxury initiative: 3 Dutch progressive acts live on saturday nite december 4th 2004. Fluxury / Plackband / For absent friends. (09-04)
Faf cancelled their show on the P60 SymfoRock Festival. A fitting replacement was soon found: Knight Area, a new Dutch group that raise considerable interest (and sales) with their album 'The sun also rises'. All Knights are experienced musicians yet the P60 festival will be their first live performance as a band. (10-04)
Too bad Fluxury exploded due to personal differences. We cancelled our attendance. On very short notice Lady Lake was willing to replace us. Lady Lake was founded in the 70's, survived through the years and is moving stronger than ever. Their new album 'Supercleandreammachine' is planned for release this winter by Musea records (12-04)

newsletter

Sent to about 250 people: Newsletter 2 (NL).
Sent to about 250 people: Newsletter 3 (NL).

Me, the enemy

On august 25th we released Me, the enemy (€5 ex porto): a mini album with 4 pre-mixes from Perishable goods as a limited edition offering to the NsN2 crowd. (08-04)

surprise review

Gnosis rater/reviewer Cesar Montesano heard our 2004 CDr singel, loved it, wrote a great review and rated it a 12 on the Gnosis scale. (02-05)

re-release

We re-released our 2004 4 song CDr as a remixed 5 song EP. Vocals & strings re-recorded. It's available to you for €8 or $10 (shipping included). (04-05) Sold out. (09-04)

great reviews

Hairless Heart Herald (Danny Mayo): '.. an outstanding piece of music .. bombastic; dreamy; impressive .. makes an impact ..'. DME (Dmitry M. Epstein): '.. the Dutch combo strike again, and strike hard .. '. Prog-nose (Danny Focke): '.. excellent progressive music, lovely quieter parts .. instrumental parts of high quality .. full of variation ..'. Tarkus (Sven Eriksen): '.. creative music with lots of uneven rhythms & breaks and progressive finds .. band with ideas, will & power to find their own way'. Ytsejam ( Jedd Beaudoin): '.. solid compositions and fine performances .. an aural feast .. Fluxury made a strong record ..'.

Over the moon

On april 18th we recorded a demo of 3 Lunar escape velocity tracks that changed dramatically since 2001: Tucked away, Pretty perfect, Remember a face. Els will use the video to create a clip. (04-04)
On the NederSymfo Nite 2, our debut album Lunar escape velocity was made available as special 2 disc package with DVD Over the moon (clips of 2001 songs Tucked away & Remember a face played by 2004 Fluxury). (08-04)

Video action

Els Witsenburg gathers material for several Fluxury related projects. She films concerts, recording sessions and interviews. The plan is to make a movie parallel to the release of our new album Perishable goods. (09-03)
Finished video projects to date: (10-04)

"Over the moon": 2 song DVD as bonus disc (released sept 2004).

several Fluxury Live registrations for internal use.

"NsN2 backstage movie" (nov 2004), just for the people involved.

Clips to support songs on stage: 'Sundance' / 'After the revolution' / 'Unreality' / 'In silence we trust' (11-05)

Live 2003

2002 was spent re-inventing ourselves as a group. With a new line-up & a fresh setlist we did four concerts in 2003.






Jan Kuipers (keys & vocals) - Jos Witsenburg (bassguitar) - Marion Bolck (lead vocals) gigs 1,2 - Ilse Kunst (lead vocals) gigs 3,4 - Sabine Kuipers (keys & vocals) gigs 1,2 - Mattijs de Jong (guitar) - John Reker (guitar & vocals) - Stelios Kalis (drums)

Setlist

Safety first - In silence we trust - After the revolution - Lookup - End of privacy - Snakecharmer setback - Pretty perfect - Remember a face - Light of other days - Shine! - Perishable goods - Safety last

Marjan's place

On april 26 2003, Marjan's place (Lelystad) hosted the 1st Fluxury concert in 16 months. We played 5 Lunar escape velocity songs + 6 brandnew songs (4 appear on Perishable goods). We invited 50 friends & relatives to create an easy atmosphere. Everything went well; the band kept their cool through all complexities and Marjon sang like a bird. The 'bootleg' recording was studied to improve future performance. During 'Perishable goods' (the song) the yellow-red-purple lightpost collapsed, thanks to Arnoud it didn't crash to the floor. Thanks you: Arnoud van Golen (light & photography, MD rec) - Jeanet van den Wildenberg (great food) - Marjan Venderbosch (host & barlady)

Boerderij cafe

the 2nd gig of the 'new' Fluxury on june 4 2003 was witnessed by only 25 people, we had fun anyway. It took place in the very nice stage-cafe of Zoetermeer's pop-temple: de Boerderij. Recordings show a more dynamic Fluxury; smooth interactions. Unfortunately it was the last concert with Marjon. Thank you: Arnoud van Golen (photos below, listening) - Femme van Leeuwen (photos, cheer)

Marjan's place

the october 4th concert in Lelystad (NsN1 try-out) was the best show we ever did. We were well prepared, played 100% by heart and had a lot of fun. Ilse proved to be the perfect match for Fluxury, she sure knows how to bring lyrics to life. The future smiles at us. 16:00 gear, 18:00 soundcheck, 19:00 chinese take-away, 21:00 PLAY. 20 people got wind of it and attended. The current playlist only takes 30 minutes so we played it twice. Els Witsenburg recorded the 2nd set on video.

Nedersymfo nite 1 - Gooisch Podium

The 1st NederSymfo Nite (Hilversum october 25 2003) was a great experience. A wonderful evening: beautiful music and good fun. Thank you Salmon & Flamborough head for being such fine individuals and musicians. For sure there will be another NederSymfo Nite in 2004. (10-03)
A nice review on NsN1 in Background Magazine (Arthur Haggenburg). (01-04)

newsletter

Sent to about 150 people: Newsletter 1 (NL).

vocal duties

vocalist (M/V)

Fluxury is een gedreven en gezellige band. We maken originele symfonische rock olv componist Jan Kuipers en tekstdichter Jos Witsenburg. Zang is centraal in de muziek, lead en harmony. Voor CD opname (2e album) en optredens (paar keer per jaar) zoeken we een ervaren zangeres (of zanger met ruim bereik) met wil en uitstraling. We zijn veeleisend over kwaliteit. Met jou erbij zijn we met 7 p. We repeteren ~ 2x per maand in Amersfoort. incidentele zangrepetities en opnames in Leiden. (06-03) auditie gesloten.

Hooray: Marjon

After months of auditioning we found a lead-vocalist. Marjon Bolck is experienced, good-looking, has an athletic voice and makes Fluxury yet more fun for us all. (09-02)

Goodbye Marjon

After only 9 months with us Marjon quit the band. Fluxury wasn't her thing after all. We'll miss you Marjon, don't be a stranger. Obviously we've got a vacancy. (06-03)

new lead singer

A miracle: after a search of only 2 months we found Ilse Kunst. She will join Fluxury starting immediately. She is a skilled vocalist with a sensitive voice that reminded us of Joni Mitchel. She can even play guitar. (08-03)

New album plan

Recording of 'End of privacy' will start in may. It will be an album with songs about the tensions between privacy and safety. Musical links: J.S. Bach, Dmitri Shostakovich, Red hot chili peppers, Ennio Morricone, King Crimson. (12-02) The plans have changed considerably since then. (09-03)

a privacy suite

When the ideas for the new album grew to over ~2 hours of music, we decided to extract the privacy mini-suite ('End of privacy', 'Symmetry', 'Privacy fugue', 'The duke' and 'Return to privacy') for future use. This ensures we can release 'Perishable goods' as a one-disk album. (11-03)

Fluxy christmas

Radio Six DJ Tony Currie asked for a sonic christmas card. We were happy to oblige. Listen to the fresh full-band sonics in 'Xhine', a pre-mix of our song Shine! (11-02)

What's that smell?

Ever heard of Progression Magazine? We sent Lunar... for a review. In a standard response publisher JC congratulates us with being chosen for a review, followed by an ad-pricelist as long as my arm; '... to capitalize upon the review ...'. We don't spend marketing money, so I decline and ask him a pre-print. He says '... can't share before it's published, but I think it will be a positive review. will you place an advertisement? ...'. In 09-02 (#41) Lunar ... is graded 5/15; they NEVER grade low. It was naive to send PM a copy: it's no music magazine but a trap for selling ads. Ah well; you live & learn. (11-02)

First air

Mark 'from Holland' Deren (Radio Heemskerk, sundays at 24:00) interviewed Jos on his show & played some Fluxury tracks. Since then more songs are played by conventional and internet radio stations every day. (06-02).

recent radio events

ProgRadio.com: 4 song special / Xymfonia: 5 songs in prime-time / Remember The Future: 3 songs 'in rotation' / Radio Six: Xhine! 6 weeks in 'randomplay'; all of 'Lunar ...' in 'Music Machine' / Paperlate Rock Radio: Xhine! / Delicious agony: 2 songs. (01-03)

Live 2001: honeymoon weeks

This was the year Fluxury went public, we played four concerts. Ingrid (lead vocals on CD) had just left the band, we were helped out by 3 fine classically trained vocalists, thank you: Femme, Carolien & Ronald, time was short yet the performance was brilliant. (11-01)



L2R: Sabine Kuipers (guitar & vocals) gigs 1,2 - Jan Kuipers (keys & vocals) - Femme van Leeuwen (soprano) - Carolien Kraaijkamp (soprano) gigs 1,2,3 - Ronald van Gerner (tenor) - Stelios Kalis (drums) - John Reker (guitar & vocals) - Jos Witsenburg (bass, not visible) - Mattijs de Jong (guitar, not in) gigs 3,4

Setlist

Introduction (from CD) - Pretty perfect - Volatile - Lookup (a capella) - Lookup (tutti) - Donkey bridge - Tucked away - In silence we trust - Snakecharmer setback - and some covers at Sabine's request.

Tagrijn

Try-out tuesday oktober 16 2001 in the Hilversum Tagrijn (free entrance, 20:00 Dutch Insult team / 21:00 Fluxury / 22:00 Momo). D.I.T. brought about their own young noisy crowd. Fluxury raised considerable interest, about 100 people attended. MOMO deserved more than 20 odd people that stayed. It was try-out tuesday for the fresh sound engineers to: the sound-novices got plenty of time from their seniors to find and solve the many problems on their own. All pictures on page are from the try-out.

Kuipers' place

Sabine & Patrick organized a goodbye-see-you-later party. On november 10 2001 at 22:30, Kuipers' place was stuffed with people: about 100 people witnessed the show.

RAI cafe

Fluxury played at a 'personeelsborrel' for the RAI Vereniging, in the RAI Complex in Amsterdam on november 23 2001, 17:15 Fluxury, 18:00 RDC band. John played in both bands, he did a good singing job with the RDC guys, we're gonna convince him to do that in Fluxury also. It was Mattijs's first and Caroliens last Fluxury performance. 50 or 100 people attended. They didn't care much about it. Many of them didn't even take off their tie. It did make us some money though.

Willem Waalre

On december 8 2001 Fluxury played at Willem's metal whatchamecallit workplace. His heavy equipment wasn't placed yet, but the new building was ready 'n' willing. Willem invited everyone he knew and a 100 people attended his party. Outside a fire was burning, inside the beer was flowing. They sure know how to party in Waalre: good fun to play for this crowd. We ended the show with some covers at John's request. This was the last concert with Femme and Ronald.

Fluxuri

is the Romanian word for currents / movements / trends, adding to the notion that the name Fluxury (a contraction of 'flux' and 'luxury') means 'wealth through evolution'. (10-01)

We release - therefore we are

Fluxury 2001: 'Lunar escape velocity'. 500 pressed copies, how on earth are we ever going to get them sold ? (10-01). Not (04-07).


Lunar Escape Velocity (2001)

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