Mestizx

Description

MESTIZX is the first album as co-composers, arrangers and musicians by Bolivian-born singer and multi-medium artist Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and celebrated expatriate Chicago jazz drummer Frank Rosaly. Partners in marriage and in art, Amsterdam-based Ferragutti and Rosaly have delved 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 gender-neutral version of the Spanish colonial term for a "mixed person" - as a way to challenge and embrace the liminality of their identities and artistic practices.