INNEC is an Amsterdam-based quartet exploring new paths in music. With their name based on Wassily Kandinsky's concept of "Inner Necessity", they state their intention of striving for purity in music while questioning previous conventions and managing to be rooted in the time we are living. The band lies in the frontiers between contemporary music and experimental jazz and is formed by four young musicians coming from Spain, Slovenia, Sweden and Denmark. Their approach blends rhythmic and melodically complex compositional frameworks with free improvisation, allowing the strong individual voices of each musician to melt in unity. A unique sound, complex like the present day. 

After three years of work, ELEMENTS AND DERIVATIONS by the Amsterdam-based quartet INNEC is the perfect crystallisation of their sound, roaming the borders between experimental jazz and New Music. In the album, each composition appears twice. While the Elements are clear representations of the written material, the techniques used in the Derivations range from non-idiomatic improvisation to digital processing, resulting in more abstract pieces that remain deeply rooted in the band’s identity