Andy Moor (The Ex) remixes Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly's MESTIZX // Ferragutti & Rosaly ON TOUR across US & EU this Spring
Today the Amsterdam-based duo of Bolivian-born singer/instrumentalist Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Chicago ex-pat jazz drummer Frank Rosaly release a new remix of "BALADA PARA LA CORPORATOCRACIA" (from their critically lauded, International Anthem & Nonesuch Records co-released debut album MESTIZX) created by Andy Moor of legendary Dutch anarcho-punk band The Ex.
Moor's remix loops Ferragutti's fiery, hexing chants that decry (what translates in English to) the "lies" and "laughs" of the capitalist colonial machine, along with Rosaly's torrential Latin percussion / polyrhythmic analog drum machine programming, and culminates in a sort of hyper-speed, heavy club clave beat with a ghostly industrial piano melody on top.
About working with Moor, Ferragutti & Rosaly say: "Andy has so much experience with communal music from around the globe, from gqom, dembow, UK grime, phonk or baile funk, but he’s also lived the life of a musical activist, which is apparent in everything he does. We’re delighted that he asked to remix one of our songs - we completely trust his musical impulses on stage, as a DJ, producer, and as a dear friend. We didn’t think BALADA PARA LA CORPORATOCRACIA could get any filthier, but he proved us wrong!"
Listen to
"BALADA PARA LA CORPORATOCRACIA" (Andy Moor remix)
here.
(tour poster by Francesco Longhi)
The "BALADA PARA LA CORPORATOCRACIA" remix is released just ahead of Ferragutti & Rosaly's debut US tour in March, which finds them playing shows in Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, New York, and Knoxville Tennessee (at Big Ears Festival), as well as a run of European dates between April and June.
Ferragutti & Rosaly's MESTIZX live ensemble for the US dates includes Matthew Lux (Isotope 217, Iron & Wine) on bass, Ben LaMar Gay (Theaster Gates’ Black Monks of Mississippi, Joshua Abrams Natural Information Society) on cornet, vocals, and other instruments, Ben Boye (Ty Segall, Bonnie Prince Billy) on keyboards, Rob Frye (Bitchin Bajas, Mike Reed's Separatist Party) on woodwinds, and Mikel Patrick Avery (Rob Mazurek, Kurt Vile) on percussions ; with Ferragutti on vocals, keyboards, and other instruments, and Rosaly on drums, percussion, and other instruments. For their EU dates, Ferragutti & Rosaly are joined by Ruth Goller (bass), James McClure (trumpet), and Uldis Vitols (electronics).
Full list of their upcoming shows with available links below.
March 20 - Parkside - Kenosha WI
March 21 - Icehouse - Minneapolis MN - tickets
March 22 - Sleeping Village - Chicago IL - tickets
March 28 - Big Ears Festival - Knoxville TN - tickets
March 31 - Solar Myth - Philadelphia PA - tickets
April 1 - Public Records - New York NY - tickets
April 4 - Rewire Festival - The Hague NL - tickets
April 5 - Space is the Place @ Bimhuis - Amsterdam NL
April 18 - Ha Concerts Gent BE - tickets
May 2 - Stanser Musiktage - Stans CH - tickets
May 30 - Druga Godba Festival - Ljubljana SI - tickets
May 31 - Jazz Is Dead - Torino IT - tickets
June 15 - Respect Festival - Prague CZ - tickets
IARC0079
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti
& Frank Rosaly
MESTIZX
co-released by International Anthem & Nonesuch Records 2024
"Unlike any other album...charts a direction and unfettered hope for the future, holism, and acceptance." — AllMusic
“An intricate, complex, and thoroughly gorgeous set of songs that weaves between folk, jazz, cumbia, bomba, art-rock and other sounds effortlessly and stunningly." — Treble
"A mosaic of sound that challenges, delights, and inspires...a pivotal debut." — Glide
"Sonic wonders colliding in really great ways" — NPR Music
"Infectiously kinetic" — The Guardian
"A fierce ritual protest." — Bandcamp Daily
"An eclectic, extravagant mix of histories, moods, manifestos and prophecies." — Spectrum Culture
"Futuristic...rumbles with avant jazz, art punk, Chicago post-rock, bomba, plena, cumbia, Andean, minimal, electronica, and folk." — WNYC New Sounds
"Unquestionably cosmic, but also grounded in the real lives and spaces of artists who refuse to be broken into cultural shards." — PopMatters
"Equally catchy and mind-expanding." — Inbox Infinity
"A truly astounding album." — Molars
"A musical reconciliation of identity that strikes out at colonialism, this debut release works in earworm melodies and rhythmic patterns that take in cumbia and Latin styles as readily as they do jazz and pop." — The Vinyl Factory
"An intriguing, moving and dreamily trippy debut album." — Monolith Cocktail
...ICYMI...
MESTIZX
film by David Burkart
If you're catching up, a perfect place to start with this project is this documentary film about Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Frank Rosaly, and the journeys that led them to create their critically-lauded, duo debut / career(s) defining album MESTIZX.
Running a TIGHT twenty-two minutes and twenty-two seconds, this expansive, holistic storytelling deep-dive created by David Burkart is the product of an effort befitting the amount of life and love that Ibelisse and Frank put into to creating this music for the world.
"DESTEJER" live @ 90mil, Berlin
Also... this beautiful memory from one of the most powerful live performances in recent memory... Ferragutti & Rosaly's MESTIZX band went full supernova on the first evening of our Zwei Abende showcase at 90mil in Berlin on June 4th, 2024. Thankfully cameras were rolling...
...about...
Ferragutti & Rosaly
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti is an Amsterdam-based mutli-medium artist who has worked as a performer, theatre maker, vocalist, visual artist, musician and teacher. Raised in Bolivia within Bolivian and Brazilian families, Ferragutti describes their work as “deeply interwoven in post-colonial justice, the paradox and beauty between grief and celebration, Andean Cosmology as a source of reclamation, resistance and resilience. Embodiment embedded in sonic fabrics while speculating myths through word oracles. I am a neo-mestiza, a spiritual activist, a femme defender and a Moon lover.” Her notable musical collaborators include: Alabaster DePlume, jaimie branch, Ab Baars, Wilbert de Joode, Eric Boeren, Mary Oliver, Paul Koek, and The Paper Ensemble. Along with her partner Frank Rosaly, Ferragutti founded the DIY arts/music space MOLK FACTORY in Amsterdam in 2017. Learn more about Ferragutti here.
Frank Rosaly is a Puerto Rican drummer, composer, and sound designer with several decades of touring, performing, recording, and creating to his name. Born and raised in Arizona, Rosaly was known for his fifteen years of creative work on the Chicago jazz and improvised music scene, before moving to his current residence in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2016. He has been featured on over 150 recordings, and is in constant collaboration. Artists he has worked with include: Fennesz, Joan of Arc, Jeff Parker, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, Joshua Abrams’ Natural Information Society, Colin Stetson, Rob Mazurek, Ryley Walker, jaimie branch, and many others. Since 2005 Rosaly has self-released recordings under the MOLK label, and in 2017 co-founded the DIY arts/music space MOLK FACTORY with his partner Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti in Amsterdam.
...about...
MESTIZX
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.
MESTIZX 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 adsitional contributions from Chris Doyle, Guilherme Granado, Viktor Le Givens and Fredy Velásquez.
*Deluxe Vinyl Package*
RED MOON COLOR VINYL
MESTIZX in vinyl form is 140 gram disc (pressed at Pallas in Germany with lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST) inside a heavyweight gatefold jacket, with a large insert poster, IARC obi strip and poly-lined dome pattern inner sleeve.
Available on Red Moon color vinyl, classic black vinyl, and compact disc (inside deluxe 4-panel digipack with insert booklet).
