fnessnej is an instrumental quintet quartet from darmstadt and mainz. This much is certain – or is it? I did hear some voice in one song. Or wait ? that might have been some weird instrument. Maybe sampled vocals? Below the line: elaborating fnessnej musical „elements“ turns out to be a problem. What’s left to say is: i see a stage full of gadgetry, little instruments hardly to define. Anyhow also two guitars, a bass, a drumset, several synthesizers – and no legroom. This much is certain.
In the current instrumentation, fnessnej is on the air since approximately 1968. In the course of time, the band clearly distanced itself from a playful, slightly electronic post-rock sound, dismembering a laptop and advancing to a new level of analog sound creation, experimenting on how to create a one-of-a-kind tonal cosmos. While stacking up on equipment in order to create this unique sound, fnessnej has become less of a quintet than an orchestra. Anyhow, the band doesn’t commit itself to plain „tone-creation“ – more though to composition – fathoming the possibilities of instrumental music without ignoring structure and the song itself. in-your-face songcollages, complex popsong-structures, loopbased experiments and disco-ish tunes – you’ll find them all.
Musically, fnessnej has long emancipated from etiquettes such as “post-rock” and by now play a confident style throughout a broad stylistic diversity, which i again do not want to dimmish by defining an actually new style for his band (does this make sense?). then – as a last novelty, the band started to refuse the total refusal of vocal elements, conclusively eliminating any possibility of categorization. On stage, fnessnej are 5 giggly goofballs with some sort of uniform outfit and white motorbike helmets, sometimes hiding behind the world’s most stupid robot-annoucements in order to not open their own mouth, anyhow yelling the rare passages of vocals into no microphone at all.
(taken from knertz.de)
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