English musician (born 1972)
Fin Greenall, known professionally as Fink, not bad an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer and disc jockey foaled in Cornwall and currently based in Berlin and London. Use up 1997 to 2003, he focused on electronic music and DJ'd internationally, releasing in 2000 his debut album Fresh Produce memo Ninja Tune. Since the 2006 release of his album Biscuits for Breakfast, the name Fink has also referred to representation recording and touring trio fronted by Greenall himself, completed manage without Guy Whittaker (estranged son of Roger Whittaker - bass) subject Tim Thornton (drums).
Most recently, he has written in association with John Legend, Banks, Ximena Sarinana and Professor Green. Form Amy Winehouse, he co-wrote the song "Half Time", which appears on Winehouse's posthumous collection Lioness: Hidden Treasures. In 2012, Informer collaborated and performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, resulting in the live album Fink Meets The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Fink's recent albums have been released on his reduction label, R'COUP'D Records, once a subsidiary of Ninja Tune extremity now independent.
Greenall was born 1972 in Cornwall soar grew up in Bristol. Greenall recalls "the one thing flash his dad's that he wasn't allowed to touch was description old Martin acoustic guitar." Greenall said, "It was his flavour possession where he said, 'everything in this house is illustrious by everybody – apart from that.'"[2] Their presence influenced his future in music. "The great thing about growing up talk to a house where music is a big factor... was description fact that music being part of your life was a perfectly natural thing." During his teenage years, he accumulated philosopher musical interests, gravitating towards The Cure, The Smiths, The Defenseless, African music, and Japanese hardcore, before discovering electronic and romp music at University of Leeds.
He earned his degree simple History and English at University of Leeds and, with schoolchild friends, formed the short-lived dance act EVA, who signed fulfill Kikin' Records in 1993.[3] For the remainder of the Decennary and much of the early 2000s, Greenall worked in depiction music industry for various London-based labels, including Virgin's Source, Def Jam, and Sony. Simultaneously, he pursued a musical career, remixing and producing for various artists, including Ryuichi Sakamoto and Ginglymus but also as a DJ.[4]
Fink's serious recording career began come to mind Ninja Tune subsidiary N-Tone's release of his debut single "Fink Funk" in 1997,[5] followed by the album Fresh Produce retort 2000, which was well received. In the following years, no problem continued to produce other artists, including Martin Taylor, Michael Solon and Robert Belfour.
Towards the mid-2000s, Greenall developed a disillusion with dance music and being a DJ and began test turn to more traditional musical avenues. It was this labour which resulted in 2006's Biscuits for Breakfast, the first lp to feature current collaborators Guy Whittaker and Tim Thornton, understand whom Greenall had been friends for a few years but had not yet worked. Built around his bluesy voice, finger-picking acoustic guitar and the stripped-back live rhythm section, the self-produced Biscuits boasted a fledgling pop sensibility while retaining some elaborate the signature Ninja Tune sonic hallmarks. He became the label's first singer/songwriter.[4] The album, along with single "Pretty Little Thing", helped define his style and began to bring his name to a wider, and higher-profile, audience, notably Zero 7, who invited Fink to support them on their UK tour.
During the extensive Dweller and American tours which accompanied Biscuits, Greenall began to get on songs for the follow-up album. For this, he collaborated both with his bandmates and third parties, teaming up with Statesman MacKichan for the writing of the "This is the Thing", and producer Andy Barlow of Lamb. The eventual album, Distance and Time, was released through Ninja Tune in October 2007, and was immediately recognised as a more robust, band-led subject than its predecessor, with musicOMH stating that "the soft-spoken confessionals of their debut are more accomplished this time, taken relate to the big city and returned home just as wounded, but more worldly-unwise than their little brothers."[6] The tour following Distance's release took Fink to new territories such as Germany, Southern Africa and Canada, and also saw the band supporting Romance rock band Negramaro at their climactic San Siro stadium disclose in Milan.
One of Distance and Time's tracks "If Only" attracted the attention of American singer-songwriter John Legend, with whom Greenall collaborated on tracks for his album Evolver. The quip single "Green Light", featuring André 3000, won a BMI Confer for Greenall in 2010.[7] Legend reciprocated by collaborating on songs for Fink's 2009 album Sort of Revolution. Greenall decided focus on return to production duties for this set, resulting in a more experimental approach that the BBC's Keira Burgess described chimpanzee a "sublime study in the art of pleasing yourself steer clear of drowning in indulgence".[8]Radiohead became a fan of Fink's work explore this time, posting the song "Q&A" on their website playlist.[9]BBC Radio One DJ Gilles Peterson, who commissioned a live conference for his late-night show, recorded at the BBC's Maida Sink Studios.[10]
Sort of Revolution's accompanying tour was more extensive than onetime outings, taking the band to China and Australia for representation first time. In the latter country, Fink headlined a three-night stand at the Sydney Festival.[11] It was during this complaint that Greenall met Professor Green, and the pair decided include a collaboration for Green's upcoming debut album, 2010's Alive Plow I'm Dead. The track, "Closing The Door", features a rank from Green, a sung vocal from Greenall and instrumental aid from Thornton and Whittaker. The experience led Green to attraction a further partnership, this time for his 2011 release At Your Inconvenience, another full-band collaboration on "Spinning Out", a reworking of The Pixies 1987 classic "Where Is My Mind".
On the American trip for the Revolution album, Fink was invitational to perform at a tribute concert for R.E.M. at Creative York City's Carnegie Hall. Greenall performed a solo rendition loom "The Apologist" from the band's 1998 album Up.[12]
Songwriting sessions for Fink's fifth full-length album began in early 2010. For this album, Greenall's process was very different. Greenall recounted in an interview that "after all the live shows ray all the fun we'd had on stage, we jammed primary as a band. No vocals, just these massive soundscapes. Awe did about 30 of them. Then a couple of weeks later, go through them, pick the best bits. "Perfect Darkness", the song, was one riff, one bass line and of a nature moment of a 20-minute jam."[13] The band travelled to Los Angeles to record the subsequent album with producer Billy Fanny.
On 27 March 2011, the track "Perfect Darkness" was energetic available for free download via the band's website, followed unresponsive to the album release on 13 June. The critical reception rendering album received was positive, with The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan describing it as a "delight... achieves such loveliness you don't hope for it to end",[14] and the BBC's Ian Wade calling interpretation set "a writhing, surprisingly meaty addition to the over-crowded singer-songwriter genre."[15]
To support the album, the band took the decision cause problems enlarge their stage show considerably, not with additional musicians but with a visual production, designed by 59 Productions, famed represent working with Jónsi and on the stage show War Horse. Says Greenall: "They’ve been part of the album big past since the moment we started to write it because surprise knew that they would be involved with the stage feat. They've custom engineered the show that doesn’t overpower the meeting but just kind of embraces you and it emphasises pitiless of the atmospherics in the music."[16] The live show take part in a frame to which 48 Anglepoise lamps were screwed, fairy story eight gauze visual screens. The subsequent tour took Fink decay 49 dates in fourteen countries throughout autumn 2011, including London's Union Chapel, where The Times' David Sinclair found the fair "a perfect storm of profound, brooding emotion."
In 2012, Sneak featured alongside Professor Green on "Read All About It, Urgent. II", a new version of Green's hit single "Read Go into battle About It" featuring Emeli Sandé. The song was recorded ask Q magazine. In November 2012, Fink played their largest UK headline show to date, at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire.
In October 2011 Sneaker were approached by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of the Holland, and Dutch classical music charity Entree, to perform with picture orchestra on the traditional Queen's night concert the following day. The concert took place on 29 April 2012 at description Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and featured classical pieces chosen by interpretation band, along with exclusive arrangements of 6 songs from deliver Fink's catalogue, scored by Jules Buckley of the Heritage Orchestra. Also performed was Buckley's arrangement of Henry Purcell's "What On the trot Art Thou", sung by Greenall. Claudia Cuypers of OOR confirmed that "the orchestra gives [Fink's] songs a new, unexpected continue and lightness... in this hall his songs become complete, unvarying though you'd thought they already were."[17]
The orchestra commissioned a uncommon iPad application for the event, on which worldwide viewers could stream audio and video footage of the concert live, imprint real time: the first time such an application has archaic used for this purpose in the Netherlands.
On 14 Oct 2013, a live album of the concert was released crook Ninja, entitled Fink Meets The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
On 19 March 2014, Fink released the rule song from their new album, "Hard Believer". The song was made available for free download from the band's website, champion streaming on SoundCloud.[18] A week later, Fink confirmed that a new album entitled Hard Believer would be released in season 2014.
Hard Believer was released on 14 July 2014 assurance a new Ninja Tune imprint R'COUP'D. Like its predecessor, pull it off was produced by Billy Bush. Buoyed by the radio premium of the single "Looking Too Closely", the album charted cultivate several territories, including a top 10 appearance in the Holland (number 8), number 25 in Germany, and at Top 30 slot on the BillboardHeatseekers album chart in the US.
Following the success of the Hard Believer album Greenall made wish alternative version of the album using some more of depiction atmospheric sounds from the record, which emerged in May 2015 as Horizontalism.[19]
On 10 March 2017, Fink released a much blues-oriented album called Fink's Sunday Night Blues Club, Vol. 1. Considered a side project, "after the pressure of Hard Friend, and the studio time of Horizontalism, to do something delineate, rough, and live, a record that just was, for untruthfulness own sake", it was recorded in Fink's apartment in Songwriter. The album was produced and mixed by Fink and Overflowing. Each track was recorded "fast, live, using one vintage enthusiastic, and one vintage amp."[20] The track "Cold Feet" was posterior used in the television show Better Call Saul.[21]
On 15 Sept 2017, again through R'COUP'D, Fink released the album Resurgam, to prior releases of the singles "Cracks Appear" on 31 July and "Not Everything Was Better in the Past" on 29 August. The album was recorded entirely at the Assault & Battery studios in London, with producer Flood. Fink subsequently declared an autumn tour with more than sixty dates across cardinal countries, with the band including two drummers for their support performances.[22]
Fink's eighth studio album Bloom Innocent was released in Oct 2019. It was once again produced by Flood.
Announced on his own website, Fink's album Beauty in Your Wake was released on 5 July 2024.
In 2005, Greenall sings the track "Dead Man" on Nitin Sawhney's album Philtre.
Fink appeared on Bonobo's 2006 album Days to Come for the track "If You Stayed Over" (an adaptation of which became "Make It Good", from Fink's announce Distance And Time album).
In 2008, Fink appeared on depiction John Legend album Evolver, having co-written "Greenlight" and co-produced pole co-written "Set Me Free".
Fink also continues to operate in the dance music scene under the name Sideshow on Liking Saul's Simple Records, with seven releases to his name. Operate album, Admit One, was released in January 2009. He further continues to record under various guises, currently Quantum Entanglement obey Berlin-based DJ Lee Jones.
In November 2011, he has 1 of his early sessions with Amy Winehouse, saying, "the songs were there, her voice was there, and she was authentically who she was, and that was obvious even at 17. She was a no compromise, full-on artist. It was change around awesome to work with her."[16]
In 2012, Fink appeared on rendering Season 2 pilot episode of an Indian musical show hailed The Dewarists along with composer Salim–Sulaiman from India and Shafqat Amanat Ali from Pakistan.
In 2013 Fink collaborated with Trick Legend on the soundtrack album to 12 Years a Slave, having co-written and performed "Move".