PremaSoul’s latest album, “a shrine to all things”, is the sound of many worlds becoming one.
“While seemingly seated in two distinct traditions, PremaSoul expands
into a musical language that is an explorative reflection of our
present time, revealing a new face of history’s ever-evolving story of
transculturation. More than ever, here in the United States, the
National identity is undergoing a radical transformation, and a new
generation of artists is hard at work finding ways to re-articulate
the ‘American experience’ in terms of their own values and vision.
What was once a more narrow national identity has now become an international
identity, a process, a journey, with roads leading to all corners of
the globe. The music of Premasoul serves not only as part of this
re-articulation, but it demonstrates, at a time of
hyper-commercialization, that music is still a powerful art form
capable of informing the cultural dialog of a nation. Hopefully, for
this matter, we nearing a time of “post-fusion” in music, wherein the
merging of diverse and varied genres is seen less as a contrived
endeavor to manufacture a ‘new’ sound, but, rather, is understood as the
direct and natural expression of artists who themselves embody the
many influences present in their work. PremaSoul is such an
expression.”
~ Todd T. Brown
Resident Artist & Artistic Director
Red Poppy Art House, San Francisco, CA.
www.redpoppyarthouse.org
Credits:
1. Bombay Frohawk: the landing
Composed by Clinton Patterson & Sheela Bringi
Traditional Sanskrit text from the Gayatri Mantra
2. Nandalala
Traditional, arranged by Clinton Patterson
3. Rupak
Traditional, arranged by Sheela Bringi, Clinton Patterson, & Robin Sukhadia
4. They Fly
Composed by Sheela Bringi & Clinton Patterson, lyrics by Clinton Patterson
5. Speaking of Source…
Composed by Sheela Bringi & Clinton Patterson
6. Devi Daya Karo Ma
Traditional, arranged by Clinton Patterson & Sheela Bringi
7. Curry, in my Collard Greens?
Composed by Clinton Patterson & Robin Sukhadia
8. Bombay Frohawk: the takeoff
Composed by Clinton Patterson & Sheela Bringi
Traditional Sanskrit text from the Gayatri Mantra
for lyrics & translations please visit: www.premasoul.com
Sheela Bringi: voice (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8), harp (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 8) bansuri (tracks 4, 5, 8)
Clinton Patterson: voice (tracks 2, 4), trumpet (tracks 2, 6, 7), rhodes mark v (tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 8)
David Tranchina: acoustic bass (all tracks except 3, 5, & 7)
Colin Woodford: drumset (all tracks except 3, 5, & 7)
Robin Sukhadia: tabla (all tracks except 1, 5, & 8), manjira (tracks 1, 8)
Rory Cowal: rhodes mark v (tracks 2 & 6)
Many thanks to Alexandra Perdew of Salvi Harps, Inc., and Susan Allen.
Produced by Clinton Patterson & Sheela Bringi
Recorded & Mastered by John Baffa, courtesy of T.V. Tray Studio.
Mixed by Clinton Patterson, John Baffa, & Sheela Bringi