Jazz Articles about Flux

Flux: Peninsulator

by Ian Patterson
February 27, 2010

Any band setting out to make a debut recording these days has a potentially inexhaustible number of influences from which to draw upon. Consequently, it is increasingly difficult to sound unlike anybody else. Flux, whose members attend Copenhagen's Rhythmic Music Conservatory, has produced a recording with echoes of progressive rock, classical chamber music and post-modern jazz influences ranging from Pat Metheny to Jaga Jazzist. To a large extent it succeeds in sounding original.

The opener, “Albino African Endangered Rhino," kicks ...

Flux: Peninsulator

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 7, 2010

Uniting musicians from several parts of Europe, Copenhagen-based band Flux has the kind of restless cosmopolitan energy that its name seems to suggest. On Peninsulator the group plays its very own brand of postmodern jazz, referencing a wealth of styles from post-bop to classical, rock, and world music, while still being able to forge its own sprawling identity. At the heart of the group's sound lies the interplay between guitarist Per Arne Ferner and flutist Mikkel Breck. ...