AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM SHOWCASE

@ PARADISO NOORD
TICKETS € 19,-

FEATURING
IBELISSE GUARDIA FERRAGUTTI & FRANK ROSALY: MESTIZX (RECORD RELEASE) – JOINED BY MATT LUX, BEN BOYE, MARTA WARELIS & SPECIAL GUEST BEN LAMAR GAY,
RUTH GOLLER: SKYLLA – JOINED BY ALICE GRANT, LAUREN KINSELLA, FRANK ROSALY
BEX BURCH – JOINED BY LAUREL PARDUE

Renowned experimental jazz label International Anthem Recordings is touching down in Amsterdam town, straight out of Chicago, featuring an all–star showcase of three of its label’s finest acts! During this spectacular night, Frank Rosaly and Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti present their debut album ‘MESTIZX’. Also on the program are other stars from the label: Ruth Goller and Bex Burch. All artists are joined on stage by stalwarts of the scene: Ben Lamar Gay, Matt Lux, Ben Boye, Marta Warelis, Alice Grant, Lauren Kinsella, Laurel Pardue. Get your ticket via the link above!

The Chicago-based International Anthem is without a doubt one of the most fascinating jazz label of recent years. Chicago Reader accurately summarized the essence of the label: ‘International Anthem brings punk idealism to progressive jazz.’ A comparison with the groundbreaking Impulse! label from the 1960s is not far away: top productions, cutting edge music and a recognizable classy graphic designs.

Co-organised by Space is the Place, Molk Factory, Paradiso, International Anthem Chicago Recordings

IBELISSE GUARDIA FERRAGUTTI & FRANK ROSALY: MESTIZX (RECORD RELEASE)

Frank Rosaly and Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti share musical and ancestral roots within the Latinx diaspora of Bolivia, Brazil, and Puerto Rico. They unite forces on their debut, full-length record as co-composers, arrangers, and musicians. In it, they pay deep reverence to their lineage without the confines of tradition or genre. They are fascinated by the never-ending beauty of Latin rhythmic patterns, microtonal mountain flutes, and oblong swing from the pre- and post-colonial Latin American region. With references to free jazz, electronica, Chicago post-rock, bomba, plena, cumbia, ambient, Andean, minimal, noise, punk, and folk, the record illustrates several sides of a decolonialization process in a deliberately loose, eclectic, and celebratory story. The music harkens to the richness of ritualistic gatherings, which they recognize as an intrinsic form of resilience and resistance, as well as a deeply necessary practice that most humans seek — in church, ritual, the dance club, music festivals, and other gatherings.

An atmosphere of their native ecologies appears throughout the record. Allegoric symbolism and dance traditions from the Caribbean and Andes materialize, sometimes as a distant memory, often scrupulously. These aspects have shaped the music to represent Latin cultures, deeply woven into the fabric of an eccentric, speculative song-story, rhyming with echoes of protest music marked by post-dictator realities and various socio-political instabilities.

Joining them tonight is a group of international musicians and beloved friends in a collective assembly of celebratory protest music: Ben Lamar Gay, Matt Lux, Ben Boye, and Marta Warelis.

RUTH GOLLER’S SKYLLA

Ruth Goller is a bassist, vocalist, composer, environmentalist, and solo artist who is one of the low-end pillars of UK’s creative music community. She came up as part of the beloved punk-jazz outfits Acoustic Ladyland and Melt Yourself Down, establishing herself as an in-demand bassist. Her credits speak to a malleable collaborative spirit and authoritative artistic instinct. She’s worked with everyone from modern jazz trail blazers like Sons Of Kemet, Marc Ribot, and Alabaster DePlume; veritable rock stars like Paul McCartney and Damon Albarn; and a startlingly diverse array of acclaimed songwriters, folk artist Sam Amidon, Malian singer Rokia Traoré, and Serbian pianist Bojan Z.

Her 2021 album SKYLLA found Goller returning to the pure untaught instincts that drove her as a teen punk musician. She revels in exploratory uncertainty, undertaking fresh tunings for each improvised composition. As Goller puts it: “at that point muscle memory doesn’t work anymore so I have to trust my ear completely.”

The Quietus described SKYLLA as “an entwining of bass and voice that feels like pure science fiction,” while the BBC praised its “lush textures to bathe in.” The Guardian commended her “rounded tone and springing attack that constantly underpins the musical shape and character” and summed it up as “a deep experience.” ECM Reviews remarked that the album plumbed “an intimacy so deep it felt almost blasphemous to be privy to its wonders.”

Tonight Ruth Goller will be joined on stage by Alice Grant, Lauren Kinsella and Frank Rosaly.

BEX BURCH

Composer, percussionist, producer and instrument maker Bex Burch (Flock, Vula Viel, Boing!) released her debut album There is only love and fear on October 20 via International Anthem.

Invited to spend a month in the US by the Chicago-based International Anthem in the Summer 2022, Burch brought her hand-made xylophone and immersed herself in the label’s creative community – listening to what it gave her, making field recordings and allowing There is only love and fear to emerge from the collaborations and environments she encountered.

Sessions for the album spanned multiple non-traditional recording spaces including a storefront in Bridgeport, Chicago and a canyon in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, with an eminent cast of creative musicians including Ben LaMar Gay, Macie Stewart, Anna Butterss, Mikel Patrick Avery, and Dan Bitney of Tortoise, all of whom Burch met for the first time in the moments before they played.

Although rooted in avant-garde improvisatory practices, Burch’s sensitivity for natural timbres gives the album a delicate and elegiac atmosphere. Over 12 dream-like instrumental incantations, There is only love and fear creates a fluid sonic whole, woven together by the physical and spiritual resonance of her hand-made xylophone, and the autobiographical sounds she recorded in her journeys between. It’s a quintessential development of Burch’s self-described “messy minimalist” approach, recalling the ingenuity of Moondog, the open improvisational atmospheres of Carlos Niño, the obtuse arrangements of early Sun Ra Arkestra, and the neorealist aural storytelling of contemporaries like Claire Rousay, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer. There is only love and fear is a dynamic, soft-spoken and subtly arresting masterpiece.

Laurel Pardue will be joining Bex Burch.