MESTIZX documentary film follows Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Frank Rosaly, and the journeys that led to their career(s) defining album MESTIZX
MESTIZX
Film by David Burkart
We are proud to present this new 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 is the product of many peoples contributions and many months of hard work in the editing room by our man David Burkart – an effort we feel is fitting for the amount of life and love that Ibelisse and Frank put into to creating this music for the world.
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Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly
MESTIZX
"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
<<< MESTIZX ON TOUR >>>
Ferragutti & Rosaly's MESTIZX live ensemble includes Matthew Lux (Isotope 217, Iron & Wine, Exploding Star Orchestra) on bass, Ben LaMar Gay (Theaster Gates’ Black Monks of Mississippi, Joshua Abrams Natural Information Society) on cornet, vocals, and other instruments, Marta Warelis (Dave Douglas, Hupata!) on keyboards, vocals, and percussion, and Ben Boye (Ty Segall, Bonnie Prince Billy) on keyboards. With Ferragutti on vocals, keyboards, and other instruments, and Rosaly on drums, percussion, and other instruments.
This Fall, they'll do a sprinkling of live dates in Europe, followed by a big hit next Spring at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville TN (along with a massive presence of fellow IARC artists including Jeff Parker, Alabaster DePlume, Carlos Niño & Friends, Macie Stewart, and SML). More US dates TBA soon for next Spring; meantime below is the full list:
November 1st - UBERJAZZ @ KAMPNAGEL - HAMBURG, GERMANY - tickets
November 9th - LE GUESS WHO? - UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS - tickets
November 15th - LONDON JAZZ FEST @ KING'S PLACE - LONDON, ENGLAND - tickets
March 27th 2025 - BIG EARS FESTIVAL - KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE USA - tickets
"DESTEJER" live @ 90mil, Berlin
A beautiful memory from one of the most powerful live performances we've seen... Ferragutti & Rosaly's MESTIZX band went full supernova on the first evening of our Zwei Abende showcase at 90mil in Berlin on June 4th. Thankfully cameras were rolling...
Brownswood Basement: Gilles Peterson w/ Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly
ICYMI... also back in June, Ibe and Frank stopped by Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Basement in London to do an interview and an intimate duo performance. Some beautiful moments in here...
...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. Learn more about Rosaly here.
...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.
We also have a limited edition color vinyl option for the first pressing only – and 444 copies of Red Moon color vinyl are available on our Bandcamp page.
The album is also available on classic black vinyl (same specs as above) and on compact disc in a deluxe 4-panel digipack with insert booklet.
