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Finnegans Wake
12+ albums
Progressive rockAvant-GardeRIOAvant-ProgZeuhl
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There is more than one artist with this name 1. Great Beligian Avant/RIO Chamber Band in tradition of Aksak Maboul , Univers Zero, Louise Avenue and Julverne. The band started in 1993 with my meeting with Alain Lemaître. He had just started a studio in his basement and we decided to give it a try... Then, as things were improving, I called my old friend Jean-Louis Aucremanne, with which I had played jazz duets in the 80s. We shared the same prog references (Canterbury, HENRY COW, VDGG) and there was the opportunity to start a "prog band"... Richard Redcrossed came later as we needed a lyricist and afterwards a vocalist. Here are the bios of the founding members: 1. Jean-Louis Aucremanne is a pianist, rather jazz / contempory music oriented. He studied jazz harmony in various jazz clinics in Belgium. FINNEGANS WAKE is the only band he's been member of. His references are Martial Solal, Siegfried Kessler and Bill Evans. 2. Alain Lemaître played bass in various funk and "chanson française" bands in Belgium. When FW started, he had never listened to any progressive band and didn't know anything about the existence of such a music. His prime reference is Jaco Pastorius. 3. Richard Redcrossed sang in various new wave bands in the beginning of the 80s. He was quite influenced by The STRANGLERS and has also a crooner touch that he's devolving in new projects in Belgium, under the name Richard Belgium. As a lyricist, he developed a kind of twisted surrealistic approach that can b
