Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly: Mestizx
Bolivian-born singer and multi-medium performer Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and renowned Chicago expat experimental jazz drummer Frank Rosaly created Mestizx that 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, minimal, electronica, and folk – both of-the-moment and alluringly futuristic. 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.” They present Mestizx with a band: South African trumpet player James McClure, Greek keyboardist Lida Brouskari and Latvian bassist Uldis Vitols.
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