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Man And His Shadow

from Heads and Tales by Tinctures

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Inspired by a Taoist meditation on madness, this improvisation is based on the struggle for reconciliation between one's physical and spiritual selves. The music tells the story of 'a man who was so disturbed by the sight of his own shadow and so displeased with his own footsteps that he determined to get rid of both'. The man and his footsteps, the shadow that pursues him, and the inner recesses of his troubled mind are all vividly depicted on piano and guitar.

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There was a man
who was so disturbed
by the sight of his own shadow
and so displeased with his own footsteps
that he determined to get rid of both.

The method he hit upon was to run away from them.

So he got up and ran.

But every time he put his foot down
there was another step,
while his shadow kept up with him
without the slightest difficulty.

He attributed his failure
to the fact that he was not running fast enough.
So he ran faster and faster, without stopping,

until he finally dropped dead.

He failed to realize that if he merely stepped into the shade,
his shadow would vanish,
and if he sat down and stayed still, there would be no more
footsteps.

–Chuang Tzu

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from Heads and Tales, released September 18, 2021

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Tinctures Berlin, Germany

exploring the nature of consonance and dissonance on the piano and guitar

Aman Mahajan (p) Bangalore

Nishad Pandey (g) Berlin

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