Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly

• DIGIPACK EDITION

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.

TRACKS & PERSONNEL:

1) INVOCAÇÃO
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti - (voice)
Frank Rosaly - (mbira, drums, synthesizers)
Chris Doyle - (piano)

2) DESTEJER
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti - (voice)
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, 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 percussion)
Frank Rosaly - (drums, percussion)
Matt Lux - (electric bass, effect pedals)
Daniel Villarreal-Carrillo - (congas)

5) MESTIZX
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti - (voice, guitar)
Frank Rosaly - (Elektron Analog 4, synthesizers, pandeiro)
Bill MacKay - (guitar, electric guitar)
Mikel Patrick Avery - (chacapa, cowbell, woodblock, shakers)

6) BARRO
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti  - (voice)
Frank Rosaly - (drums, synthesizers, drum machine programming, percussion, panderetas)
Chris Doyle - (piano, synthesizers)

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, percussion)
Frank Rosaly - (drums, guiro)
Matt Lux - (electric bass)
Chris Doyle - (synthesizers)

10) WRITING WITH KNOTS
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti  - (voice, lap harp)
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)

11) SIRINUS
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti  - (voice)
Frank Rosaly - (drums, percussion, krar, synthesizers, electronics)
Guilherme Granado - (synth bass, electronics)
Mikel Patrick Avery - (percussion)
Fredy Velásquez - (harmonica, Awa vocalizations, chacapa, percussion)