Multi-instrumentalist, producer and Blind Colour label head Jez Lloyd has been performing and releasing music as Ink Project for over a decade, initially with Melanie Dymond, with debut album Inside The Sun emerging at the end of 2011. Third album Rhythm Spirit was released in 2021.
Coreysan
aka Corey Atheleny Wallace first collaborated with Jez in 2016, but has
been around the block a few times himself, born in Trinidad and
travelling the world with Calypso Rose's touring band (don't blink and you'll catch him stage right at Coachella in 2019). Relocating to Bristol, Corey has also played bass with 10-piece "UK Afrobeat behemoth" Matuki (as you can see here). He also found time for his debut solo album, Deeper Than Skin, in 2020.
Another long-time Ink Project collaborator is Fifi Rong, who delivers Rhythm Spirit's closing track The End. Fifi's amassed a formidable collection of solo releases too, which are worth a sidestep to Bandcamp for.
Another
(surprise) performer on The Sub Rooms stage after Ink Project's set,
joining headliners African Head Charge, was Italian dub legend Gaudi. He's got history with Jez and Corey, having remixed their 2021 single Feeding The Fire.
Ink Project gave a blistering performance of Feeding The Fire on the night.
A trio of archive Ink Project remixes to wrap up, from Coreysan himself, Seahawks and lastly Talk In Colour, who offer an interesting take on Jez and Melanie's adaptation of a Blondie classic.
Of course, the final word (and today's post title) has to go to the Guv'nor, Andrew Weatherall, who was on the case with Coreysan years ago...
