OUT AND BACK EP

Flux Bikes - Out and Back EP

An album dedicated to community bike organizations in Chicago, IL.

July 3rd, 2020 www.robfrye.bandcamp.com/album/out-and-back-ep

Rob Frye - bike wheel, guitarra de son, bike chimes, flute

mastered by Brian Sulpizio

On July 3rd, 2020, Bandcamp is waiving it's revenue shares.

100% of money received for Out and Back will be donated to Experimental Station and Working Bikes in Chicago, IL. Both of the groups are based in Chicago and offering their communities bicycles, repair, education, and empowerment in this city and internationally. Visit their websites below to find out more information.

***On all other days when Bandcamp doesn't waive it's revenue share, visit the link below to donate directly to Blackstone Bikes and Working Bikes.***

experimentalstation.org/donate

workingbikes.org/monetarydonations/

DEEP BREAKFAST and FLUX BIKES + POTIONS

Flux Bikes + Potions duo at California Clipper 1.15.20

Duo with Macie Stewart at Sleeping Village for Deep Breakfast 1.19.20

Flux Bikes + Potions duo at Marz Brewery Tech Noir party 1.25.20

ESS HOLIDAY MARKET

12.8.19 at ESS Holiday Market

Flux Bikes solo set followed by:

Ben Baker Billington and Andrew Scott Young

Devin Flower

Daniel Wyche and Billie Howard

Daniel Fromberg

Ralph Loza

OCTOBER IMPROV IN CHICAGO

Elastro A/V Fest at Elastic Arts 10.25.19

w/ John Daniel, Macie Stewart, and Jonathan Woods

photos by Julia Dratel

Hearts and Minds at Empty Bottle 10.22.19

opening set w/ Dan Bitney and Ben Lamar Gay

AGOSTO EM CHICAGO w/ EDBRASS BRASIL and BLG

Gather Series at Comfort Station 8.17.19

Close to There w/ Edbrass Brasil and Kim Alpert

Marvin Tate's Jazz on Da Block 8.24.19

duo w/ Ben Lamar Gay

Axis: Sova at Cole's Bar 8.24.19

duo w/ Ebrass Brasil 

Ben Lamar Gay's Hecky Naw! Angles! at MCA 8.30.19

w/Kim Alpert, Renee Baker, Katie Ernst, Raquel Monroe, and Carlos Pride

HEARING HIDDEN MELODIES

Parsons Memorial Lodge Summer Speak Series 8.3.19

Hearing Hidden Melodies: Birdsong and Human Music

Presentation and Conversation with musician and birder Rob Frye

POTIONS + FLUX BIKES + ABSTRACT BLACK

6.12.19 at California Clipper

Flux Bikes meets Potions

Potions + Flux Bikes and Abstract Black

at Empty Bottle 7.22.19

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@potionsssss x @flux_bikes x @abstractblack @emptybottle in Chicago on Monday, June 22, 2019.

A post shared by © JayVe Montgomery (@abstractblack) on Jul 24, 2019 at 1:53pm PDT

FLUX MO / PEDJAM

The 2019 Annual Flux Bikes ride along the Missouri River's Katy trail proved to be one of the most challenging rides of the decade! Starting in Alton, IL (does that grain silo look familiar?), this solo trip encountered floods and tornadoes along the route that forced this ryder to adapt and seek shelter indoors. Thanks to my grandmother Peg and a family near Blufton, MO for taking me in during the severe storms.

Alton, IL

Machens, MO

Tornado damage on the Katy Trail near Augusta, MO

Flooding on the Katy trail Near Portland, MO

near Rocheport, MO 5.21.19

Flux Bikes setting up at Pedaler's Jamboree

Riding the high roads out of Rocheport, MO

THE BRIDGE - TRANS-ATLANTIC MUSIC

Old Town School of Folk Music 5.1.19

photo from Alexandre Pierrepont

The BRIDGE 2.1

CRYING OUT LOUD

formed May 2019

a trans-atlantic network of creative music

http://acrossthebridges.org

Dan Bitney

Christiane Bopp

Rob Frye

JayVe Montgomery

Olivia Scemama

Simon Sieger

Special thanks to JayVe Montgomery for documenting these performances!

His amazing YouTube channel is here

And his playlist of the first 5 CRYING OUT LOUD concerts is here
and the rest are here, here, here, here, here, and here.

California Clipper 5.2.19

photo from Alexandre Pierrepont

MÄRZ BATCH

Fulcum Point New Music presents

Discoveries: Hear and Be Heard

3.1.19 at Fulton Street Collective 

Simon Anderson leads Fluxus pieces

followed by Ryan Packard solo and

trio w/Ryan and Ben Lamar Gay

3.3.19 at Marz Community Brewing

'Microdose' Brunch series

Duo w/ Ben Lamar Gay

3.4.19 at All-Write Festival in St. Louis, MO

photos from Ellen Frye

COLES BAR w/ JEREMY FREEZE

2.2.19 at Coles Bar with Jeremy Freeze (poster)

DonAU VIDEO

Flux Bikes DonAU

Video shot in Ulm, Germany

Beats recorded in Vienna at the AU

Watch on VIMEO

Flux Bikes is honored to have participated in the group show
Herzuas. Temporary Migration
http://migrationnachulm.de/category/temporaere-migration/

DONAU FOTO

SpieleFest 9.23.18 at Wilhelmsburg in Ulm Germany

w/ Jon Collin, Jang Tesa, and Neuer Saarbrücker Kunstverein

Roy and Katharina in Vienna

EuroVelo 6 / Donau Radweg

Heppel und Ettlich 9.15.18 in Munich

w/ Joasihno Mobile Disco

Empty Bottle 9.12.18

w/ Quintron and Velcro Lewis Group

DANUBE RIVER TOUR

SUMMER BINGER / POSTOCK

Postock 2018 - Poster by Crystal Zapata

8.4.18 duo w/Ben Lamar Gay

Cut Cats Courier Summer Binger 8.25.18

w/Unmanned Ship, Rio Turbo, The Rolling Stones

STROBREDEN

photo and video by Heiko Wommelsdorf

VIMEO Snippet 2
VIMEO Snippet 3

Strobreden - House for Sound Art Enthusiasts.
in Bahrenfeld - Hamburg, Germany.

CLOSET OF RECORDS // KUNSTVEREIN ULM

Performances in Belgium and Germany:

3.29.18

at Het Bos, Antwerp Belgium

Closet of Records w/ Flux Bikes

HET BOS

14.4.18

Kunstverein Ulm, Germany

Performance and talk for opening of Werksam Vereinen

The Flux Bikes video "River Elbe" will be showing in the group show

Barbara Herold and Florian Huth from the series "List of facts with positive influence." 

link to event

ALL-WRITE & TRUE/FALSE

ALL-WRITE 2.28.18

This has really become an annual tradition!

TRUE FALSE 3.1.18

RF and BLG DUO at HUNGRY BRAIN

photo from Allison Taich

1.17.18 at The Hungry Brain

Multi-instrumentalists, All-city collaborators, El is a Sound of Joy-bandmates Rob Frye (Flux Bikes, Bitchin Bajas) and Ben LaMar Gay (Juba Dance, Bottle Tree) can be found performing in an array of musical groups in Chicago and on tour.  In their duo they find the relation between folk musics and stories of past and present, horn and voice, bike tires and other instruments gathered from musical journeys.

DEC '17

12.17.17 at The Owl w/ Mukqs, Winston Lasker and DJ Catieo

12.26.17 with Shantah Nurulla, Carlos Pride, Mikel Avery and Ben LaMar Gay