Help us celebrate LP/CD release day for Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly's MESTIZX with this here listening party on ye olde IARC BC page. Join us for a full listen through the album (mind you: several weeks before it'll be available in full on streaming platforms!) as we chat it up with the multi-talented / multi-faceted / multi-dimensional crew behind the making of the music.
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Pre-order of MESTIZX. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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releases May 3, 2024
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited Edition 140g "Red Moon" Color Vinyl inside a heavyweight gatefold jacket, with large insert poster, IARC OBI strip and poly-lined dome pattern innersleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany with lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST.
**Order ship from US, UK, EU**
Includes digital pre-order of MESTIZX.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
edition of 444
Purchasable with gift card
$30USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
140g Classic Black Vinyl inside a heavyweight gatefold jacket, with large insert poster, IARC OBI strip and poly-lined dome pattern innersleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany with lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST.
**Order ship from US, UK, EU**
Includes digital pre-order of MESTIZX.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
Purchasable with gift card
$25USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Shiny Compact Disc in 4-panel Digipack with insert booklet.
Includes digital pre-order of MESTIZX.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
MESTIZX is Bolivian-born singer and multi-medium performer Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and renowned Chicago expat jazz drummer Frank Rosaly's debut album as co-composers, arrangers and musicians.
Partners in both marriage and art, the Amsterdam-based Ferragutti and Rosaly dove into the sounds of their respective ancestral roots in Bolivia, Brazil, and Puerto Rico to create a deeply personal meditation on decolonization and the defiant power of ritual and protest. They chose the title MESTIZX – a non-gendered version of the sometimes slurred Spanish colonial word for a “mixed person” - as a means of both challenging and embracing the liminality of their identities and artistic practices.
Rosaly says: “I grew up quite Puerto Rican in my home, but was taught to mask it outside my home. I wasn’t allowed to speak Spanish, so the drums eventually became my language, secretly tying together my own feeling of connection to mi tierra. This record is the first time I actively give voice to the nuance within myself, allowing me to take ownership of this in-between, which is what this album communicates for me… There is this unusual place that exists between these two cultures, of which I am both. There is a complex story in that sliver of in-betweenness, worthy of giving voice to all of us that live in-between.”
Ferragutti adds: “My personal understanding is one that stems from being placed in between lineages that carry the colonizer and colonized, the oppressor and oppressed, the demon and the angel… thus by definition is tied to post-colonial social constructs which we as Bolivians have to step in, like a 500 year novel that goes on and on… We have access to many memories and traditions, but not really, because we don’t fully belong to any of those… This makes us feel we're in a constant state of being the “visitors” and “outsiders.” On one hand, we are never truly part of one lineage. On the other hand, it makes us a travelers of worlds, storytellers in between multiple languages, cultures, and worldviews. We chose MESTIZX for this work as an act of recognizing the mixed state of being as a difficult and yet powerful one.”
The album was produced and recorded primarily at International Anthem Studios in Chicago, where Ferragutti and Rosaly were joined by a community of musicians and beloved friends including Matt Lux, Avreeayl Ra, Ben LaMar Gay, Daniel Villarreal, Bill MacKay, Rob Frye, and Mikel Patrick Avery, with addditional contributions from Chris Doyle, Guilherme Granado, Viktor Le Givens and Fredy Velásquez.
The music creatively infuses Latin rhythmic patterns and oblong swing from pre-and post-colonial Latin America into a collision of avant jazz, art punk, Chicago post-rock, bomba, plena, cumbia, Andean, minimal, electronica, and folk. A wholly original but undeniably universal sound – both of-the-moment and alluringly futuristic - MESTIZX contains points of reference and resonance for fans of Juana Molina, Café Tacvba, Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln, Liquid Liquid, Arto Lindsay, As Mercenarias, The Ex, Tortoise, Tom Zé, Elza Soares, La Mecanica Popular...
It’s a vast, vibrant and encompassing spectrum of sounds, but at its core MESTIZX is a lucidly conscious collection of auto-biographical statements from Ferragutti & Rosaly on the deeply personalized effects of colonialism on geography, history, and identity. Despite its heavy subject matter, however, MESTIZX finds a lifeline in communal, celebratory, soul-bearing and movement-inducing music.
credits
releases May 3, 2024
1) INVOCAÇÃO
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti - voice
Frank Rosaly - mbira, drums, synthesizers, Octatrack mkII
Chris Doyle - piano
2) DESTEJER
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti - voice, Farfisa, Prophet
Frank Rosaly - drums, percussion, synthesizers
Ben LaMar Gay - cornet
Rob Frye - flute
Chris Doyle - Hammond, Philicorda, MS-20
Matt Lux - electric bass
Mikel Patrick Avery - tamborine, caxixi
3) TURBULÊNCIA
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti - voice, effects, acoustic guitar, guiro
Frank Rosaly - drums, congas, percussion, synthesizers
Bill MacKay - electric guitar
Mikel Patrick Avery - penny whistles
Chris Doyle - Hammond, Philicorda
Matt Lux - electric bass
4) BALADA PARA LA CORPORATOCRACIA
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti - voice, Buchla, effects, percussion
Frank Rosaly - drums, percussion
Matt Lux - electric bass, effect pedals
Daniel Villarreal-Carrillo - congas
5) MESTIZX
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti - voice, guitar, Wurlitzer, Prophet
Frank Rosaly - Elektron Analog 4, synthesizers, pandeiro
Bill MacKay - guitar, electric guitar
Mikel Patrick Avery - chacapa, cowbell, woodblock, shakers
7) SABER DO MAR
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti - voice
Frank Rosaly - drums, mbira, synthesizers, percussion
Chris Doyle - synthesizers
Bill MacKay - requinto
Mikel Patrick Avery - percussion
8) BLESS THEE MUNDANE
Frank Rosaly - drums, drum machine programming, synthesizers, guiro
Viktor Le Givens - voice message
9) DESCEND
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti - voice + effects, guiro, percussion
Frank Rosaly - drums, guiro
Matt Lux - electric bass
Chris Doyle - synthesizers
10) WRITING WITH KNOTS
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti - voice, Farfisa, lap harp, Prophet, bells
Frank Rosaly - drums, percussion, Elektron Analog 4, synthesizers
Matt Lux - bass six, electric bass
Ben LaMar Gay - cornet
Rob Frye - flute
Chris Doyle - Pulse synth, MS-20
Avreeayl Ra - drums
Compositions: Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly
Lyrics: Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti except “Bless Thee Mundane” by Viktor Le Givens & “Sirinus” text excerpt from Diablos tentadores y Pinkillus embriagadores …en la fiesta de Anata/Phujllay - Bolivia by Henry Stobart, edited & compiled by Arnaud Gérard
Producers: Matt Lux, Frank Rosaly, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Dave Vettraino
Executive Producer: Scott McNiece
Recording and mixing: Dave Vettraino
Additional Recording: Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Frank Rosaly, Chris Doyle
Mastering: David Allen
Recorded at International Anthem Studios, Chicago, and Molk Factory, Amsterdam,
with additional recording in La Paz & Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Fajardo, Puerto Rico, 2023.
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The IARC mission is to make positive contributions to the changing state of the music industry, and to vitalize the demand for boundary-defying music by presenting unique sounds in appealing packages to untapped audiences....more
So happy to see a new album from this band. I've long been a fan of Mazurek and Parker's work in Tortoise, on top of the CUQ... Anyhow, if you're curious about contemporary jazz, this is a terrific place to start.
Hobie Anthony
Pharoah's long forgotten masterpiece. This record could have been lost, but it just got resurrected, and seriously, this is probably one of Sanders top 2 or 3 albums. Those who discovered Pharoah with Promises, might prefer this to Karma. The first track, Harvest Time is a gem and both live takes on this double CD are compelling variations of the studio version, maybe even more exciting! Alex Deschênes
The D.C./Baltimore trio create music that burns with great intensity and dedication to the art of improvisational exploration. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jul 28, 2022
Really this album is a masterclass in Hard-Bop, Post-Bop, Spiritual jazz, and soul jazz all wrapped up in a impressively cohesive package.
It pays tribute to those that came before while still keeping an eye to the future/past. ATrott
