The group's third album, Pictures, was issued by Musea/Gazul in 2001, the same year that Krutzen moved to Brazil. Also featuring keyboardist Jean-Louis Aucremanne and singer/lyricist Richard Redcrossed (aka Richard Belgium), Finnegans Wake released two albums on the Mellow label, Yellow in 1994 and Green in 1998. If one individual could be deemed the principal driving force behind Finnegans Wake, it would be Henry Krutzen, a multi-instrumentalist (primarily keyboards, percussion, and tenor saxophone) who began the group, along with bassist Alain LemaƮtre, as a Canterbury, RIO, and jazz-influenced prog rock band in Belgium during 1993. This Finnegans Wake is decidedly a rather large distance away from Blarney Rock. As for style, try an avant-prog amalgam of influences including post-Canterbury prog and contemporary classical as for geography, jump across the Atlantic from Belgium to Brazil (and throw in Germany as well). There is a Finnegans Wake band with no connection to Celtic music or Ireland or the United States, however, and that group is a bit more difficult to pinpoint in terms of both style and geography. Finnegans Wake is not just the name of James Joyce's baffling and impenetrable work of fiction, but the name adopted by at least a few musical ensembles over the years, not surprisingly a Celtic band based in - somewhat surprisingly after all - Las Vegas (and with " Finnegan's" in the singular possessive form).
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