Biography 3 of 5

Shaun Spalding, the capstone in the Inuit Jargon vaulted arch of rock, could very well be one of the most versatile and talented singers in rock music. His genre bending vocals forcibly take control of listeners,leaving them feeling used and molested yet still yearning for more by the end of each track. Usually known for his golden voice and boundless range, few take the time to realize Shaun is an equally skilled harmonica and recorder player. This fact has compelled many in the press to label him a “triple threat”. When asked to comment about his “triple threat” status, he noted that he wrote all of the bands songs making him, in his words, “A quadruple threat and then some.” As the hypotenouse of Inuit Jargon’s right triangle of awesome and the group’s principle sex appeal, Shaun has been cheifly responsible for the Jargon’s unprecedented rise in popularity and the incredible diffusion of virus-like buzz sourrounding the band that the press has termed “Inuit Jargon influenza”.

When asked about the future of the band, Shaun has remained Pollyannaish. He speaks openly about plans of a epic concept triple-album containing 57 tracks. “The story is pretty complicated. Most of it would revolve around three revolutionaries in a post-apocalypic world where love is outlawed. Since people can’t love, people buy computer chips that they install into their spinal cords, so they can escape the toil of the salt mines they’ve created to power their war machines… The album would be written from the point of view of a blind and deaf space pilot revolutionary who refuses to get the chip and comes to earth to teach them how to break free of their hypnotism. It’s sort of like Brave New World with dragons and lazers and stuff. I think that’d I play the Jesus character…” He had much more to say about the concept, but most of it was simply repetition and Bible quotes.

Shaun’s artistic focus will always be concentrated like a laser beam on Inuit Jargon, but he still makes time to dabble in side projects — most notably the experimental hip-hop collective, The Boriqua Mafia, formed in 2003, and more recently a soon to be released, not yet titled album of remixes with Inuit Jargon producer DJ Tanner.