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The Inkling are a four piece co-operative of saboteurs churning out an impressive array of deeply stirring sounds and rhythms from their base in the South Pacific.
The co-operative’s four core members, Luke Bang (Korg and keys), P-hil (Drums and percussion), Osaka (guitar and sometimes vocals), and Mr Garstang (bass), maintain that while they may all be inchoate musical prodigies and potentially able to redeem humankind thru sound alone, their unique art derives from a balance between conflict and harmony (a bit like the human struggle, which may be why their music has been described as both intensely human and wholly alien).
Their tracks, built primarily from drums, acoustic bass, Korg, Rhodes keyboard, and guitar, draw from a wide sphere of musical and non-musical sources, yet combine to form a wholly original and fresh sound.
While every musical comparison offered has been entirely different, ranging from jazz electro-clash to a puzzle of a Dali painting, the one thing agreed on is that each track takes the listener on an odyssey through unexplored lands of sound.
Always engaging, their compositions evolve from complex interlocking double and triple rhythms, to sublime outbursts of terrible beauty.
The Inkling shift between moments where each instrument holds equal primacy in complex looping movements, to tiered back, in-step grooves where one instrument ascends a melody to navigate the crests of tension and resolution unfolding below. God it’s good.
A glimpsed understanding of this equilibrium is transmitted to the active listener time and time again.
“Deluge” (CREC1029) was recorded in late 2004 at Wellington’s famed Surgery studio with the rising star of New Zealand production Dr Lee Prebble and mixed over the summer of 2004/2005. Dr Prebble mastered it at Sydney’s 301 Studios in June and the release is NOW