HVCK FYNN is the band around Peter Steger and Michel Gsell from Lucerne, a city in the heart of Switzerland, situated on a beautiful lake, surrounded by protective mountains.
Named after the young adventurer from Mark Twain's book "Huckleberry Finn", the band's lyrics were initially very much inspired by the book. But in the meantime, with some more life experience, many more stories have been collected. The inspiration for them today comes on the one hand from stressful family circumstances, on the other hand HVCK FYNN has a fundamentally positive force that drives the lyrics to something optimistic. There is something comforting in the songs, underpinned by versatile arrangements of playful verses and clear, anthem-like choruses.
Hope plays a big role in the songs and generally in the life of HVCK FYNN. Because: we all need hope. We can't control everything and the world will unhinge us every now and then. To have the strength to get up again, we need hope. For this we need trust. Above all, trust in love, in a universal as well as a concrete love. According to Peter Steger, this basic trust in love is the basis for all hope. Beyond that, however, we also need imagination and a childlike faith in the good. A fantastic, beautiful horizon and the certainty of being able to get there. This fantastic horizon is an imagination, a dream. It can help to understand the outer world better or to keep it away from time to time.
from time to time. This fantastic horizon is the constant source of hope.
Happiness and the pursuit of happiness are another important motif in the music of HVCK FYNN. As actual happiness Peter understands the inner happiness, in which external circumstances play only a limited role. For example, the joyful and completely vague expectation of upcoming experiences while sitting in the car driving to Liguria to the sea. The feeling of happiness is not the fulfillment of concrete ideas, but the idea itself. So, loosely based on Mark Twain, for Peter, "the pursuit of happiness" is setting out and looking forward to something, but not expecting anything to expect anything concrete. In this way, happiness is actually already won.