The Inhabitants are an instrumental four-piece from Vancouver, featuring JP Carter on acoustic and amplified trumpet/effects, Dave Sikula on guitar/effects, Pete Schmitt on bass/effects, and Skye Brooks on drums. Close dissection of their music may reveal elements of experimental jazz, noise rock and free improvisation. However, the band prefers to approach their music without preconception of genre, creating a self-defined channel of composition and sound.
All active in the Vancouver creative music scene, the Inhabitants are, in part, a product of their environment. You may have seen or heard an Inhabitant playing with bands like the Tony Wilson Sextet, Fond of Tigers, Carsick, the Veda Hille Band, Great Aunt Ida or Dark Blue World, and/or in collaborations with Francois Houle, Peggy Lee, The Buttless Chaps, or the N.O.W. Orchestra.
In 2005, the Inhabitants released their self-titled debut (Drip Audio), an album Down Beat magazine described as "an aural introduction to a dream". Textura.Org also voiced approval, saying the band "strikes just the right balance between experimentation and structure". Later that year the group recieved the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award at the 2005 Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
In 2006, the Inhabitants toured Europe, performing at the Moers Festival in Germany. They were billed as "the most exciting new band in Canada".
This November 2007, the Inhabitants tour Canada in support of "The Furniture Moves Underneath", their second-full length on the Drip Audio label. The album documents a band continuing to push forward into new sonic territory, further exploring a singular approach to experimental sound, intuitive group interplay and instrumental song writing.
1. Life After Debt (50ft Monster) 2. Inventions For The New Season (Maserati) 3. Sleight Of Hand (Raising The Fawn) 4. The Millions Too Many (A Northern Chorus) 5. Era Vulgaris (Queens Of The Stone Age) 6. Hospital Music (Matthew Good) 7. Bring On The Comets (VHS or BETA) 8. In Rainbows (Radiohead) 9. You, You're A History In Rust (Do Make Say Think) 10. The Furniture Moves Underneath (Inhabitants)
Hey – just a reminder to listen in SUNDAY night at 7-8:30 pm CST to hear INHABITANTS on “This Great White North” an ALL CANADIAN music show from Austin, Texas ! It’s on www.koop.org 91.7 KOOP-FM Cheers, Doug The Canuck
Hey guys thanks again for the great show last week. Patty took a pile photos and a bunch are posted on our myspace if you want to see them...I hope the rest of the tour went well. tyson
Hey there...I was listening to CBC the other day and some bad ass sounds were comming through the air waves...it ended up being you guys,so I proceeded to investigate further. I was not dissapointed...,great stuff boys!!!
snatch rancher! who's the snatch rancher? it must be like a hill billy pimp or something. how r u gonna break into the mennonite market with a name like that? come on!
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Hi friends.
Im going to stop being a bastard and start seeing more of all y'all live.
Because aside from a few decent rock shows ive been to, you guys(and all the bands in the family) have always been memorable.
