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Inki Music Blog PUBLISHED It’s been nearly a year since I dropped the debut single, Playing With Fire, from my album “Thoughts Midsentence”. Now, as I prepare to release the fifth single, Svífa, you’d expect my heart to pound a little lighter when I hit that distribution button. It doesn’t. This time, it’s the first […]

Inki Music Blog PUBLISHED Solange was singing “I slept it away, I sexed it away, I read it away” (Cranes In The Sky) when I was crowned “the worst break-up DJ”. My friend was going through a breakup and I had dragged her out for a cheer-up drive, but killing the vibe with my bad

Inki Music Blog PUBLISHED When hearing music production words, I hear love language. And when I talk about relationships, I tend to think in music production words. Your energies are clashing, you cancel each other out, maybe it needs a bit of compression, you gotta find that leveling sweet spot for the perfect mix. This

In her second album, Brotabrot, Icelandic artist Inki blends original music and interviews with former prisoners into a danceable, hip-hop-inspired composition that asks aggressive questions about the relationship between imprisonment and entertainment. 

Inki Music Blog PUBLISHED Quite the Situation is an artwork composed of three elements – a bookwork, an album release, and an installation. They fold into one another, creating a three-dimensional story tied together with the strings of time and yet, unbound by it. The work shifts and evolves in continual motion: a book becomes

The glaciers melt and a new landscape reveals itself. The process in itself isn’t ugly, the new
landscape is beautiful, but this beauty numbs our senses which makes it harder to react. It isn’t until the glaciers are gone that they will be missed.
The composition Pars Pro Toto is beautiful yet uncomfortable, soothing yet haunting, much like a glacier’s slow but unthinkable retreat.

Inki Music Blog PUBLISHED It’s an established practice to put data into music to gain a deeper, different understanding of the information. The music composition, Underground, is built on this tradition, using earthquake data from the Icelandic Meteorological Office. The earthquakes are audibly realized on an old upright piano which has been taken apart in