Bare White Bones

by Caballito Negro

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"Bare White Bones" composed by Wally Gunn
For flute & percussion
Co-commissioned by Caballito Negro

WATCH THE TRAILER: vimeo.com/701375736
WATCH THE FULL VIDEO: vimeo.com/932230027
Directed by Christopher Lucas

The text of this wild, haunting piece comes from the Scottish ballad ‘The Twa Corbies” (translated to Latin by James Gunn) where two crows recite how they will “perch on his pale face...nest in his golden hair....peck out his beautiful blue eyes... through his bare white bones the wind will blow forever…” Gunn describes himself as “from a dreary rural town in Australia's southeast”, where he learned this poem at a bleak “Australian Gothic” school. Re-reading it as adult he was struck by its lack of sentimentality. The poem is “... a literary version of those extraordinary Rococo vanitas paintings of flowers, food, candle flames, and skulls... Irresistible!...Crows, ravens...are my favorite birds; so striking to look at, so interesting to observe, so intelligent…I chose to translate the poem into Latin because it is now a dead language, but was used during the Enlightenment… a conduit for profound and secret wisdom in science and philosophy.”

During the pandemic in 2021 Caballito Negro collaborated with film-maker Christopher Lucas to create a wild, haunting music video poem for "Bare White Bones", using this recording. Lucas evokes this pitiless ballad through shadow puppetry, gorgeous drone photography, plague masks, crows, and macabre humor, linking our modern-day environmental crises.

While the video can be seen on its own terms, Caballito Negro also performs "Bare White Bones" live, with the video in the background.

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released April 27, 2024

Tessa Brinckman - flute
Terry Longshore - percussion
Recording engineer - Sean McCoy
Recorded at Broken Works

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Flutist Tessa Brinckman and percussionist Terry Longshore draw their name (“dark little horse”) from Federico García Lorca’s poem, "Canción de Jinete (1860)". Heralded for “wildly personal, intercultural, modern music…vivid, expressive music that could be performed anywhere” (Oregon Arts Watch), they meld narratives, images, and themes in imaginative curations, in concerts all over the USA . ... more

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