The band was founded “due to musical differences”.

Hands of Kanellos emerged from the fusion of the bands Elefants and Acadian Post. Acadian Post had made a name for itself in Hamburgs Country and Americana Scene on xxs-Records next to bands like Fink and Veranda Music. Elefants had taken the britrockwave of the 00s and had surfed it to support Dennis Lyxzén, play the Dockville festival and appear on an EMI Sampler.

Having no bass player and no frontman but rather several singers and drummers at once on stage is one of the band's dogmas, which are discussed regularly and heavily within Hands of Kanellos. Dispute and controversy are in fact very vital in the band's work, causing them to question and experiment to the point where unexpected results start to happen. After two years of this experimenting, after releasing their first EP “Rio”, and after two tours to the UK, Hands of Kanellos now release “Lenz”! Inspired by the German poet Lenz, who feels uneasy for not being able to walk on his head and is someone who is having a hard time with the concept of being itself, both in real life, as well as in Büchner’s narrative. The album's opening title track carries his name and has become an insider tip within small musicophile indie stations. Now Lenz has become one more thing: seven and a half songs of musical slowfood, that have been boiled down over the period of almost a year.

The tension between the different musical styles the five Kanellos have evolved from always stays intact and audible. As long as these differences exist, there will be further stepping stones from the path of Hands of Kanellos' voyage to the pleasant-sounding sound experiment. This stepping stone is called Lenz and “he stretched himself out and lay on the earth, dug his way into the All, it was an ecstasy that hurt him” (from Büchner’s Lenz. Translated by Michael Hamburger).

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