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That Which Colors the Soul

by Caballito Negro

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That Which Colors the Soul explores the synastry between Caballito Negro’s experiences in Hindustani classical music and their cultural practice as contemporary western musicians. As such, the piece is lyrical in its traditional elements, though destabilized and swiftly moving through ideas that in traditional Hindustani raga are a wide, slow moving river. The duo improvises through echoes of afternoon raga Vrindavani Sarang (inspired by a composition by Hariprasad Chaurasia) set in Dadra Tala (6 beats, divided 3+3), midnight raga Dabari Kanada set in Roopak Tala (7 beats, divided 3+2+2), and a newly composed, unnamed mode set in Keherwa Tala (8 beats, divided 4+4, including a groove, “dha - - ge na ga dhi ne…,” inspired by a composition by Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri). The musicians perform on hybrid flute, tabla, waterphone, Roland Handsonic, and bottles, over an electronic track. The title is inspired by Ravi Shankar, who described Indian raga as “that which colours the mind.” That Which Colors the Soul was performed and recorded live in the studio with no overdubs!

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released January 1, 2021

That Which Colors the Soul
Available for purchase at caballitonegro.bandcamp.com
Composed and performed by Caballito Negro – www.caballitonegro.com
Tessa Brinckman – hybrid flute, bottles
Terry Longshore – tabla, Roland Handsonic, bottles, waterphone, bols
Backing track – Caballito Negro
Recording – BrokenWorks Productions, Ashland, Oregon
Mixing of live + pre-recorded track – Sean McCoy, Oregon Sound Recording
Released January 1, 2021
© ℗ 2021 Tessa Brinckman, Terry Longshore. All rights reserved.


Acknowledgements: Caballito Negro gratefully acknowledges the impact of Indian classical music on their practice as western musicians. Terry is thankful for his teachers, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri and Daniel Kennedy, and Tessa is grateful for guidance from Benji Wertheimer, and West coast disciples of Pandit Pran Nath (Kirana Gharana).

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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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