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Mujer o Bruja

Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums

Label: Spoot Music, Zipa Music
Released: 2023
Duration: 55:02
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Tracks

Earth / Rock Arc; Water; Air; Fire / Hurrian Hymn; But Then ...; Conquest / Mayhem; Border Stories / Radio Los Ninos; Herida Abierta de la Frontera; Cabaret de las Brujas / MC Introduction; La Bruja; Irony Boards Brujaha; Still Hurrian; Leydy Pech / Pollinate the Evolution; Remedios / Butterfly Becoming; Untrapt

Personnel

Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums

saxophone

Amy E. Denio

multi-instrumentalist

Jessica Lurie

saxophone

Sue Orfield

saxophone, tenor

Tina Richerson

saxophone, baritone

Robert Kainar

drums

Additional Personnel / Information

MUSICIANS/COMPOSERS: Correo Aereo Duo: Abel Rocha: harp, guitar, percussion, voice Madeleine Sosin: violin, percussion, voice + Tiptons Sax Quartet: Amy Denio: alto sax, clarinet, accordion, guitar, voice Jessica Lurie: soprano & alto sax, flute, auxiliary percussion, kazoo, voice Sue Orfield: tenor sax, piano, percussion, voice Tina Richerson: baritone & alto sax, percussion, voice Elizabeth Pupo Walker: percussionist in absentia license

Album Description

During the worldwide COVID-19 Pandemic, two powerful music ensembles and a digital technologist joined forces to create a multimedia project based on research of the role of women in Mexican and Latin American culture through story and song. That research led director Madeleine Sosin to hone a story asking deeper questions.

Inspired by The Chalice and the Blade by archaeologist Riane Eisler, ¿Mujer o Bruja? (Woman or Witch?) was created by a stellar crew:
The Tiptons Sax Quartet (AD, Jessica Lurie, Sue Orfield, Tina Richerson with percussionist Elizabeth Pupo Walker), Latin American music duo Correo Aéreo (Abel Rocha and Madeleine Sosin) and creative technologist Jing ‘Jude’ Dai.

After a year of video conferencing, the group met in Seattle in October, 2021 to hone, finalize and present the piece. It was featured at the Earshot Jazz Festival, and co-sponsored by Non-Sequitur. The ensemble went on to record and mix the audio at Stone Gossard’s Studio LITHO in Seattle.

¿Mujer o Bruja? was made possible with the support of a great tech crew, Nonsequitur, Earshot Jazz Festival, On The Boards, 4Culture, and a generous grant from Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Rehearsal support: Seattle Drum School & Kenyon Hall.

A multimedia collaboration between
Correo Aereo, The Tiptons Sax Quartet and Jude Dai

Inspired by The Chalice & The Blade by Riane Eisler
Structure and story: Written and directed by Madeleine Sosin
Music: Written and developed by the ensemble
Visuals: Produced by creative technologist Jude Dai
Visual Curation and Concept: Madeleine Sosin and Jude Dai
Spanish & English translations - Abel Rocha
Produced by Amy Denio
Co-Producers: Madeleine Sosin and Jessica Lurie
Structure and story: Written and directed by Madeleine Sosin
Music: Written and developed by the ensemble
Visuals: Produced by creative technologist Jude Dai
Visual Curation and Concept: Madeleine Sosin and Jude Dai
Spanish & English translations - Abel Rocha
Produced by Amy Denio
Co-Producers: Madeleine Sosin and Jessica Lurie

ARTWORK
Cover image - Georgette Sosin (detail from a photo of sculpture ‘Place For Meditation’)
Design: Jessica Lurie