Flux and Mutability
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Flux and Mutability is the second collaboration between David Sylvian
David Sylvian
David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...

 and Holger Czukay
Holger Czukay
Holger Czukay is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Described by critic Jason Ankeny as "successfully bridg[ing] the gap between pop and the avant-garde," Czukay is also notable for creating early important examples of ambient music, for exploring...

. It was released in September 1989. The music consists of two instrumental tracks improvised by the participants.

Track listing

  1. "Flux (A Big, Bright, Colourful World)" (Sylvian, Czukay) – 16:56
  2. "Mutability (A New Beginning in the Offing)" (Sylvian, Czukay) – 20:59

Personnel

  • Holger Czukay
    Holger Czukay
    Holger Czukay is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Described by critic Jason Ankeny as "successfully bridg[ing] the gap between pop and the avant-garde," Czukay is also notable for creating early important examples of ambient music, for exploring...

     – electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

     (1), bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

     (1), dictaphone
    Dictaphone
    Dictaphone was an American company, a producer of dictation machines—sound recording devices most commonly used to record speech for later playback or to be typed into print. The name "Dictaphone" is a trademark, but in some places it has also become a common way to refer to all such devices, and...

     (1), radio (1), engineer
  • David Sylvian
    David Sylvian
    David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...

     – guitar (1, 2), keyboard instrument
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    s (1, 2), art director
  • Michael Karoli
    Michael Karoli
    Michael Karoli was a German guitarist, violinist and composer. He was a founding member of the influential krautrock band Can....

     – electric guitar (1)
  • Michi - voice (1)
  • Markus Stockhausen
    Markus Stockhausen
    Markus Pirol Stockhausen is a German trumpeter and composer.-Biography:Born in Cologne, he is the son of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. At age four he appeared as "child at play" in his father's theatre piece Originals. He received his first piano lessons at age six, and at age twelve he began to...

     – flugelhorn
    Flugelhorn
    The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...

     (1)
  • Jaki Liebezeit
    Jaki Liebezeit
    Jaki Liebezeit is a drummer probably best known as a founding member of Can who has been called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral"....

     – percussion (1), African flute
    Flute
    The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

    (2)

Additional personnel

  • Yuka Fujii - art director, cover art, photography design
  • René Tinner - technical advice and assistant
  • David Buckland - front cover photography
  • Published by Opium (Arts) Ltd./Spoon Music
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