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Flux + Mutability

~ David Sylvian, Holger Czukay
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  • Audio CD (4 Sep 1989)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Virgin
  • ASIN: B00000AQQ9
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,038 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Flux (A Big Bright Colour World)
2. Mutability (A New Beginning In The Offing)

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The years following the release of Sylvian's SECRETS OF THEBEEHIVE witnessed a remarkable pair of collaborations with Can's bassist, co-founder, producer, and restless experimenter. Czukay and Sylvian receive sole billing on 1988's FLUX AND MUTABILITY, the second of these sessions, but three core members of the (then disbanded) Can--Czukay, Michael Karoli,and Jaki Liebezeit--contributed to these two exquisite tracks.
FLUX AND MUTABILITY belongs to that rare category of albums--including such masterpieces as Cocteau Twins' VICTORIALAND, Talk Talk's SPIRIT OF EDEN, and Sylvian's own BRILLIANT TREES--whose impossible beauty suggests the likelihood of angelic intervention. The splendid ambient weave of "A BigBright Colourful World" interlaces Sylvian, Czukay, and Karoli's fragile guitar lines, Czukay's radio and dictaphone samplings, Sylvian's warm, lambent keyboards, Liebezeit's nearly subliminal percussion, the multihued flugelhorn of MarkusStockhausen (yes, Stockhausen fils), and Michi's ephemeral utterances. The music develops and matures in timeless suspension befitting the album's title. "A New Beginning Is in the Offing" features only Sylvian and Liebezeit (on African flute). As mixed by Czukay and Sylvian, the duo's tumbling andunfolding banks of sound conjure open-ended cloudland vistas of the most sublime and celestial aspect.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ethereal, 2 Jun 2001
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David Sylvian and Holger Czukay's 'Flux And Mutability' belongs to ex-Japan musician's best works. Consisting of two tracks, it's abstract in a way that's similar to Shostakovich's string quartets. However, at the same time it is accessible like Brian Eno's 'Music For Airports' or Gavin Bryars's 'The Sinking Of The Titanic'. Think Andrei Tarkovski's 'Stalker', rain on a sun-lit patio, memories of things that never happened . . . Just don't think Art Of Noise! 'Flux' is gorgeously ethereal. Mesmerising.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Soundscapes of Ethereal Pastoral, 28 Sep 2008
Ok, so a bit of a pedantic review title - but this, the second of Sylvian's collaborations with ex-Can linch-pin Holger Czukay is arguably one of the most beautiful ambient recordings ever made.

Whereas 1988's 'Plight and Premonition' was often stark, and perhaps cold, 'Flux and Mutability' is warm, gentle and balming. The first track 'A big, bright, colourful world' begins with an electronic pulse quickly followed by light but fast percussion which sets you up for the pace of the piece for the next 17 minutes. Even so, we are hardly talking lightning speed, this is relaxing 'mood' music at its best. Radio fluctuations are prevalent here as they were on the last offering, providing some mysterious backdrops to this enigmatic shimmering composition.

The second half, 'A new beginning is in the offing', is 21 minutes of the most beautiful ambiance I have ever heard. Only Eno could be compared to Sylvian here for the ability to infuse such emotion through electronic music, and for me Sylvian has the upper-hand even compared to the masterpiece that is 'Music for Airports'. The first four notes on this piece stop me dead in my tracks every time I hear them, literally forcing me to become totally relaxed, recumbent and silent and start the track from the beginning again. There is no percussion here, just a swirling mass of musical sound that for all of its electronic components, transports you to a very organic pastoral landscape, perhaps helped by the cover image of a farmer herding his flock down a country lane. It does not have an end, but rather the silence you are left in is merely a continuation of the space you find yourself occupying.

This collaboration between two of the finest craftsmen of modern music makes me wonder what that other fine collaboration of John Foxx and Harold Budd would bring should they too, decide to create a 'two-piece' full-length album...

Easily one of my 'desert island discs' and despite 1999's 'Approaching Silence', (although this was recorded for a multi-media installation), best efforts 'Flux and Mutability' remains quite solidly David's finest instrumental work, and in my humble opinion, the finest in its genre.
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