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/Gazul, Carbon-7 and finally to AltrOck italian production label.
As Henry Krutzen moved to Brazil in 2001, the band 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 was even more developed with the
arrival, in 2007, of
Marcílio Onofre on piano and keyboards.
Richard Redcrossed wrote all lyrics of the albums until "4th" and was Finnegans Wake singer on "Pictures" and "4th". See
Richard page on Myspace. After Richard Redcrossed,
Xóchil Schütz wrote the lyrics of the "Blue" album. See
Xóchil page on myspace.
Alexandre Johnson entered 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. See
Alexandre page on Myspace.
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 pages on Myspace.
Marcílio Onofre is an active Brazilian composer, pianist and music theorist. For complete biography, See
Marcílio Onofre page on Myspace.
Markus Stauss is a swiss saxophonist who entered the band in 2009. See
Markus Stauss page on Myspace.
