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Work · 1987

Tintenfisch Inki

Tintenfisch Inky; Tintenfischinki; Inki

Closing track of “Cracked Mirrors” (the renowned European jazz label ECM, 1988), Pepl's first published piano piece; also a track on the 2015 double CD (2:48).

Authors
Harry Pepl
Genre
piano piece, ensemble work
Line-up
piano and flugelhorn as a duo with Herbert Joos (Cracked Mirrors); ensemble version 1990 (flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello according to mica)
Premiere
27 February 1990, Brahmssaal of the Musikverein, Vienna (Ensemble Kontrapunkte, with Pepl playing along)
Publisher
Pepl Daniel Musikverlag (Fullmax Publishing)
ISWC
T0010760130
AKM work number
1428799
Sheet music
Lead sheet: Lead sheet in the estate (Dropbox /Harry Pepl/Noten/Jazz Tunes).
Archive ID
HP-W-0173

The special atmosphere at the Rainbow Studio in Oslo, where Jan Erik Kongshaug mixed the album, led Pepl not to record the piece on guitar but to play it himself on the piano, as a duo with Herbert Joos. For Daniel Pepl this produced one of his most beautiful pieces. For insiders, the title has a connection to Norway.1

Elements of the piece already appear on the 1982 demo tape “Kling Klang”. At the composer portrait in 1990, Pepl improvised several voices to the ensemble version.

Notes and sources (1)
  1. Daniel Pepl, obituary for Jan Erik Kongshaug on Facebook, 2019. ↩

Listen to the recording

Harry Pepl, Herbert Joos, Jon Christensen: Tintenfisch Inki (Cracked Mirrors, 1988)

1988 · ECM Records, 1988

“Tintenfisch Inki” (Harry Pepl), track 8 of the ECM album “Cracked Mirrors” (1988), 2:56, suggested by Daniel Pepl in 2020 for the Ö1 radio programme as a beautiful ballad.

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Ensemble Kontrapunkte, 27 February 1990, 3/5: Tintenfisch Inki, piano version (Harry Pepl)

1990 · cassette recording, Musikverein, Vienna, 27 February 1990

Harry Pepl’s “Tintenfisch Inki” in the piano version, immediately before the ensemble version. The studio version is on the ECM LP “Cracked Mirrors” (1988).

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Ensemble Kontrapunkte, 27 February 1990, 4/5: Tintenfisch Inki, ensemble version (Harry Pepl)

1990 · cassette recording, Musikverein, Vienna, 27 February 1990

Premiere of the ensemble version by the Ensemble Kontrapunkte under Peter Keuschnig, here as part of the complete cassette recording. A public version of the same recording has been on SoundCloud since 2014.

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Tintenfisch Inki, ensemble version with the Ensemble Kontrapunkte

1990 · live recording, Brahms-Saal, Musikverein, Vienna, 27 February 1990

Premiere of the ensemble version by the Ensemble Kontrapunkte under Peter Keuschnig at the composer portrait in the Brahms Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, home of the Vienna Philharmonic, 27 February 1990. The piano version is on the ECM LP “Cracked Mirrors”.

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