Krijs

Krijs is a manifestation of Ivo S. Bijker (ISB). It is to give direction to a flow of thoughts and emotions that are buried under populist one-liners and microwave philosophies in this social reality. Krijs brings nuance with a hammer and does so in a long tradition of melancholic harsh music and dark poetry. Krijs is raw, an open nerve, the constant grinding of cerebral networks trying to understand where this madness leads to. Krijs is the constant calibration of perception, fully embracing all aspects of life, truly paying attention to the darkest side to glorify a truth that does justice to its divine nature.

A statement of Ivo S. Bijker as an account of his spectral existence and mortality:

I was born on the 31st of march in the year of our fall 1978. What was supposed to be a careless and happy childhood was clouded by a sickness that befell my brother and therefor the entire family. It took years to fully comprehend the magnitude of it all and still I am not convinced we emotionally processed all that happened. It somehow sparked a darkness in both my brother and me. In the early 1990'ies we started our first Black metal band eventually named Arbuscula. We never released any albums, because of the very limited options back then, but we did do a lot of memorable shows, radiating our anger and aversion of hypocrisy, treachery and inferiority.

On the 14th of February of the year 2003 my brother (in arms and blood) died by his own hand, leaving this world dead, cold and worthless!

And yet ... I never felt more alive ... on that exact moment all my senses, my intuition, body, mind and soul were in alignment and at full capacity. The hammer of society that finds dealing with death, especially when by one’s own hand, very hard and confronting, made me fall into the depths. Not in any hell of sorts, but in an all-consuming vegetative emptiness.

It took me years to find my way back to the land of the living. I did so by my own strength, not subsidiary to any system of belief, outside force, god or cult. If anything, my experience has enflamed my disdain and distrust of any form of (semi) organized group entanglement. 

I chose Krijs as my main vehicle to express the raw emotion of this open nerve ... and as such find a way to deal with today's reality. For those familiar with this particular train of thought and curious of its development and evolution, I will write some more elaborate pieces on this subject, and other elements that inspire and/or bother me, in the "Inspiration" section.

Hail the divine nature of the individual!

ISB

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