For over twenty years, a certain room - situated above a certain café on a certain corner near a park in Leeds - has been home to periodical music, sound and noise events. Inecto School are one of the more recent groups that have grown out of this collection of miscreants who frequent the room.
The three songs currently available for download were recorded back in 2004 as part of a self-released album entitled 'Wrangthorn Recordings'. Gilles Peterson played the song 'Slow Quillo' on BBC Radio 1 on 30 January 2005, next to songs by Stevie Wonder, M.I.A., and Roots Manuva, which makes very little sense to us... We will update with much more recent songs in the next few days...
Our tools have been known to consist of;
scrumpet, horn, vocal chords, drums, various percussive instruments, double bass, classical guitar, electric guitar, banjo, violin, old chimes in clocks, radio frequencies, xylophone, thumb pianos, kalimba, sliver forks, clarinet, vintage alto saxophone, bass trumpet, a wide variety of electronics, a selection of keyboards and organs, piano, scraps of junk, empty 55 gallon oil drums, and anything else we can get our hands on.
We occasionally find ourselves performing improvised aural communications to audiences accompanied by projected visuals. For example;
... At Leeds International Film Festival in 2006, we performed a soundtrack to the film 'Aelita - Queen Of Mars' (a beautifully Bolshevik, highly influential early Soviet sci-fi film set in Moscow and on Mars – the first film to explore the solar system beyond the moon, and the first major budget Soviet film).
... You can see and hear the results of Inecto School performing a live soundtrack to Edwin's film 'Spectres' (2005) by clicking this link. This version is from the live screening at Sheffield Forum on 5 April 2006. The original version with the Hotsnack soundtrack can be found here. You can see more of Edwin's films here.
... We performed a soundtrack to a film of a projected operation at a National Kidney Federation benefit and organ donor awareness night in 2007. We would like you to join the NHS Organ Donor Register.
We are also working on an album, which will be finished in the coming months.
You can watch Inecto School performing with Damo Suzuki, Chris Corsano, Mick Beck and Chora in Sheffield in May 2006...
You can also watch a short film entitled 'For Mullard's Health' directed by Harry of Inecto School, with an Inecto School soundtrack entitled 'Mullard's Third Madrigal'...
You can watch Inecto School performing with Chora live at the Cricketers Arms in Sheffield on 22 Feb 2006 here. Thanks to the nice people at freenoise for filming.
The following people have said the following words about Inecto School;
"Inecto School are a throbbing vibrating constantly expanding raunchy improv band who make spiritual music for a secular world, these sex crazed monks of luuurve will have us all making out in the field by the time they are done." (unknown)
"Inecto School, despite their name, are far from the dour experimentalists that one might have feared. A largely acoustic line-up (stand-up bass, guitar, drums) is augmented by two members who supply brass and woodwind, bells, thumb piano, electronics and radio interference. The set has an improvised feel, but the band have a more unified sound than many improvising groups: the players allow each other room, and everybody’s contribution is given equal weighting. An excellent sound mix ensures that the playing is crystal clear – every note, scratch, hiss and slurp is audible. The melodic guitar forms a loose centre to the music, bringing to mind Six Organs of Admittance, albeit in an expanded form. Experimental music can sometimes be so forbidding, it’s nice to see a group project amiability and enjoyment on stage." (Saturday 01/04/06 Damo Suzuki's Network, Inecto School @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, written by Oliver Goodyear for Gigwise.com)
"Cobbling together a range of obscure intrumentation for a half hour jam that would only pass as post-rock in very polite circles. Let's just say that I have photos for reference and if there's any danger of them getting on a stage within half a mile of me again the small arms are coming out of the secret cupboard. Their ramshackle nature did, though, suit the venue. While probably the wrong era, the Lantern Theatre calls to mind the sort of place where Bertie Wooster or one of his acquaintances might make an ill-fated address destined to end in the throwing of veg in various states of decay." (Sunday 07/05/06 Great Lake Swimmers, Monkey Swallows the Universe, Inecto School @ Lantern Theatre, Sheffield, written by Matt H for soundsxp.com)
