Fink (musician)

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Fink at TFF Rudolstadt (2014)
Fink at TFF Rudolstadt (2014)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Hard believer
  DE 25th 07/25/2014 (2 weeks)
  AT 37 07/25/2014 (2 weeks)
  CH 21st 07/20/2014 (2 weeks)
Fink's Sunday Night Blues Club, Vol. 1
  CH 59 03/19/2017 (1 week)
Resurgam
  DE 84 09/22/2017 (1 week)
  AT 47 09/29/2017 (1 week)
  CH 39 09/24/2017 (1 week)
Bloom Innocent
  DE 95 11/01/2019 (1 week)
  CH 83 03/11/2019 (1 week)

Fink (* 1972 in Cornwall ), actually Finian Paul Greenall , is an English singer-songwriter , DJ and music producer from Bristol . The name also stands for the trio led by Greenall, with whom he goes on tour and in which his guitar playing and vocals are supplemented by bassist Guy Whittaker (son of Roger Whittaker ) and drummer Tim Thornton .

biography

Finian Greenall's music career began with the instrument that he has returned to since 2006, namely the acoustic guitar . As a teenager, however, he first became known in the English rave , electronic and trip hop scenes. In 1995, in collaboration with Lee Jones from the band Hefner, he brought Extra Vehicular Activity to Kickin? Records out. This drew the attention of the London independent label Ninja Tune , which signed him for the sub-label N-Tone . The EPs Finkfunk (1997) and Front Side Blunt Side (1998) were released there under the pseudonym Fink .

In 2001 he made his solo debut with the album Fresh Produce , which struck much calmer rhythm and blues tones and thereby set itself apart from the productions of the other artists at Ninja Tune . This followed with little enthusiasm recorded change of style Greenall but only later on and devoted himself meantime especially his dancefloor -Nebenprojekt Sideshow at Simple Records . It was not until the album Biscuits for Breakfast , which was released by Ninja Tune in 2006 , that his style, which was based on blues and acoustic guitar playing, solidified and made Fink heard by a wider audience.

After Nitin Sawhney him for a joint appearance at the BBC festival Electric Proms could engage Fink inspired more and more for live performances: He participated in other festivals ( Big Chill , Fruit floor , Bestival ) and toured as support for Zero 7 by Great Britain. For Bonobo's album Days to Come (2006) he contributed the track If You Stayed Over ; and with Tim Bidwell from Hardkandy and Elliot Richards from Heels Catch Fire he founded the record label Folklaw Records in the same year .

For Distance and Time , his album released on October 1, 2007 on Ninja Tune , he won Andy Barlow of Lamb as producer. This Is the Thing was released as the first single in advance . On June 13, 2011, his studio album Perfect Darkness was also released by Ninja Tune . This was followed by two live albums, which essentially consist of the Perfect Darkness material, 2012 Wheels Turn Beneath My Feet in the classic trio line-up and 2013 Fink meets the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra together with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Hard Believer , Fink's 5th studio album, was released in early July 2014. It was recorded in the Soundfactory Studio in Hollywood, most of the lyrics were written in Berlin. Fin Grenall has been living in Berlin-Kreuzberg for some time , after being frequently booked as a DJ by clubs in the city.

Discography

  • Finkfunk (1997)
  • Front Side Blunt Side (1998)
  • Fresh Produce (2001)
  • Biscuits for Breakfast (2006)
  • Distance and Time (2007)
  • Sort of Revolution (2009)
  • Perfect Darkness (2011)
  • Wheels Turn Beneath My Feet (2012)
  • Fink Meets the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (2013)
  • Looking Too Closely (single, 2014)
  • Hard Believer (album, 2014)
  • Horizontalism (2015)
  • Fink's Sunday Night Blues Club, Vol. 1 (2017)
  • Resurgam (2017)
  • Bloom Innocent (2019)

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  1. ↑ Chart discography Germany
  2. ↑ Benson, Denise: "Think like Fink" in: Eye Weekly (January 25, 2001)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.eyeweekly.com  
  3. ↑ Sideshow profile on Simple Records ( memento of the original from September 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.simplerecords.co.uk
  4. ^ Fink blog , accessed January 6, 2012.
  5. ↑ dradiowissen: Interview from July 6, 2014 , accessed July 8, 2014 (mp3, German / English)

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personal data
SURNAME finch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greenall, Finian Paul (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English singer-songwriter, DJ and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Cornwall , UK