Forenzics is a New Zealand musical project formed by

Tim Finn Brian Timothy Finn (born 25 June 1952) is a New Zealand singer, songwriter, musician, and composer. He is best known as a founding member of Split Enz. Finn founded the band in 1972 with Phil Judd and served as lead singer and principal songw ...

and

Eddie Rayner Anthony Edward Charles Rayner (born 19 November 1952) is a New Zealand musician who spent ten years as a keyboardist in the band Split Enz. He has also played in the groups Orb, Space Waltz, Crowded House, the Makers, The Angels in 1986-1987 ...

in 2020. It's a project that includes 'shades & echoes' of early

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repertoire. The songs are combinations of new and re-imagined lyrics and music. The "guest" players on the recordings include former past member of Split Enz Noel Crombie.

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, who produced Split Enz's second album '' Second Thoughts'' is a featured guitarist on several songs. It also features

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. Other players come via Eddie Rayner's instrumental ensemble Double Life - Mark Denison (saxes, clarinet, flute), Adrian Stuckey (guitars, bass) and Patrick Kuhtze (drums). Double Life had created a bunch of inspired instrumental 'jams' which Eddie sent to Tim to imagine lyrics and melodies. This resulted in half the album's repertoire resulting from the jams and the other half using 'shades & echoes' of early Split Enz songs and ideas. The name "Forenzics" is a play on the band's original name "Split Enz", a name they changed from "Split Ends" to represent

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. The name and album name is to project the idea that they are using fragments from their past songs into their new ones.

History

said the project was instigated in 2020 when he found an old rehearsal tape of Split Enz; he digitised it, thought it sounded "amazing" and emailed it to

, the first re-engagement between the pair in years. This also later ignited another project between the two, releasing an album in August 2020 called ''Caught by the Heart''. In early 2020, the band spontaneously released its first single on YouTube (accompanied by a video) called "Walking", which was a reinvention of Split Enz's "Walking Down a Road" from the Split Enz album '' Mental Notes''. Between then and early 2021, they released two more music videos inspired by ''Mental Notes'' songs: "Strange Stars" (inspired by "Under the Wheel") and "Abandoned" (inspired by "129/Matinee Idyll"). All of these songs are included in the 2022 debut album ''Shades and Echoes''.

"I sent Eddie a
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sketch and loved how he developed it. We live in different parts of
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, different strands of the isthmus, and avoid traveling across town as much as possible. So we were summoning memories and working blind throughout."
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says.

handled the production of all the songs in his own home studio. The release of ''Shades and Echoes'' was postponed from 2021 to 2022 due to the delayed manufacturing and delivery of vinyl and the

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Discography

''This discography relates to releases by Forenzics. See Split Enz discography for other works by Forenzics.''

Studio albums

Singles

References

External links

Frenz Official Fan Forum
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