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"Fin "Fink" Greenall is an atypical singer-songwriter, inasmuch as he DJed for the dance label Ninja Tune in a previous life before radically changing direction in 2006. Since then, he and his self-titled band have crafted softly-spoken acoustica that makes a feature of his lulling voice – it's in the same beguiling ballpark as Jose Gonzales and John Legend – and contemplative guitar/drum/string arrangements. His fourth album often achieves such loveliness you don't want it to end. An organic warmth prevails on even the most emotionally chaotic songs – delicate fingerpicking and squeaking guitar strings sweeten the scathing Honesty ("True colours/ You got so many, baby, you're like a fucking rainbow"), while his hungover rasp on Berlin Sunrise paints an oddly seductive picture of the new day. Even better, once his mumble is deciphered on the skeletal Delta blues ambler Wheels, it reveals his passion for his hometown, "old Bristol city". What a delight." The Guardian

Fin Greenall, who is the voice and heart behind Fink, often gets mistaken for other people.

At the BMI Awards in the US, a ‘roomful of gangstas and playas’ were convinced the Cornwall-born, Bristol-raised Englishman was a lawyer, and not a songwriter picking up an ‘American Urban’ gong – one of three BMIs he received for his work with John Legend on the soul singer’s Evolver album.

In Berlin, clubbing capital of the world, they think he helps run a small minimal techno label. In certain London circles he’s known as the hardworking insider whose past roles at DefJam, Sony Music, Talkin’ Loud, and Source saw him work with a range of artists longer than the horizon. At the BBC, they imagine Fink as perhaps the only musician who has played both the Electric Proms and the actual Proms (was that really the same guy leading a 120-piece orchestra at the Royal
Albert Hall in an ‘immense’ cover of Roy Ayers’ Everybody Loves The Sunshine?).

In record company circles, he’s the producer who worked on the first demos by Amy Winehouse and the writer who’s been crafting hooks for Professor Green. In big-room booths around the world, he’s the internationally-renowned DJ and Ninja Tune stalwart who finally hung up his Sennheisers with a valedictory set at London’s Fabric.

Who is Fin Greenall? All of the above. Yes, the now-Brighton-based musician acknowledges, he has done – does do – all of those things. ‘But the Fink thing is my main thing.’

Perfect Darkness is the new album by Fink. Recorded in Los Angeles in 20 super-creative days, it brims with one-take wonders and naturalistic, hand-on-heart, head-in-hands, head-in-the-clouds songs. It’s a ‘singer-songwriter’ album that manages to encompass DJ Shadow and Nick Drake; that is marinaded in blues, jazz and soul; that’s sung by Greenall in a voice that has a relaxed, textured, woody heft.

Growing up, he hoovered up the sounds he heard on John Peel: ‘The Cure, The Smiths, The Orb, African music, Japanese hardcore’. He embraced skateboarding, the music and the fashion – ‘it was an awesome way to grow your own culture’. At university in Leeds, electronic and dance music became everything. We were really inspired by Aphex Twin and The Orb and Moby.

His ardour and his skills saw Greenall become part of the Ninja Tune family – first signed on the back of a cassette-tape demo - as artist, DJ, writer, producer, and remixer.

Greenall knows of what he speaks. His world of experiences – high and low, electronic and acoustic, musical and cultural and chemical, behind the decks and on the dancefloor and at the mic – have fed into his new album. Perfect Darkness is an album of perfect lightness, and perfect balance too.

“One of the most original singer-songwriters around” Clash
“Say hello to your new soundtrack” NME
“If you’re into John Martyn, Massive Attack and Adem, you’ll dig it” Time Out (NY)
“His album often achieves such loveliness you don't want it to end. An organic
warmth prevails on even the most emotionally chaotic songs” The Guardian
“A classic” BBC
“This nuanced, gratifying album will seep into your consciousness” Metro

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Os concertos da versão nortenha do festival vão realizar-se em pelo menos oito salas: estão confirmados o Coliseu do Porto, o Cinema Passos Manuel, o Maus Hábitos, a garagem Passos Manuel, o Pitch Club, o Teatro Sá da Bandeira, Ateneu Comercial do Porto e FNAC de Santa Catarina.

Ooit als talentvolle DJ omarmd in de Technoscene om vervolgens een immens publiek te bespelen op een akoestische gitaar, een drastische carrièreswitch veranderde de muziekstijl van Fink abrupt, maar met succes. Succesvolle optredens op o.a. Lowlands en vier spraakmakende albums zijn het bewijsstuk hiervan. Zondag 22 april staat hij bij ons op het podium voor een exclusief cluboptreden in Nederland.

Na enkele Triphop EP’s en het door danceliefhebbers goed ontvangen Technoalbum Fresh Produces besluit Fin Greenall, alias Fink, het over een compleet andere boeg te gooien. De DJ-set wordt ingeruild voor een akoestische gitaar en in 2006 verschijnt het album Biscuits For Breakfast, een plaat vol meeslepende folkliedjes in minimale bezetting geleid door de donkere stem van Greenall.

Inmiddels is het alweer tijd voor het vierde album van Fink als zijnde singer- songwriter en is hij al net zo geliefd als singer- songwriter als dat hij was DJ en producer. Zo wist de man op Lowlands 2011 iedereen in de India tent mee te krijgen met zijn adembenemende optreden en kreeg Fink de menigte in verroering met een prachtige uitvoering van de single Yesterday Was Hard On All Of Us.

Goed nieuws! Op zaterdag 30 juni 2012 wordt de vierde editie van Rockin' Park gehouden met o.a. optredens van Snow Patrol, Elbow dEUS, Fink en Selah Sue. De komende periode zullen er nog meer namen bekendgemaakt worden.

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