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Mirror Butterfly: The Migrant Liberation Movement Suite
Innova Recordings

Mirror Butterfly: The Migrant Liberation Movement Suite

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Details

Composer
BARSON, BENJAMIN
Artist
Afro Yaqui Music Collective
Format
CD
Label
Innova Recordings
Released
Aug 02, 2019
Catalog #
INN029
UPC
726708602925

About

Get ready for revelation! Mirror Butterfly: The Migrant Liberation Movement Suite is an epic jazz opera spanning four continents and five centuries. The opera is a tribute to the resistance of migrants to the destruction of ecologies, economies, and cultures unleashed by slavery, conquest, and colonization- in short, a history of capitalism from the point of view of women warriors from Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. A trinity of revolutionary women converge to tell stories of migration, singing a Sermon on the Mount to bring down Babylon. The plot of Mirror Butterfly is inspired by The Story of the Sword, a Mayan parable shared with us by the Zapatista autonomous schools. The story symbolizes the centuries-long Mayan resistance to the conquest and Indigenous genocide through avatars of a tree, a stone, and water. In their story, a sword (representing the conquest) cuts down a tree (Mayan society). The tree transforms into a rock, which is underground and still; but the sword hacks at it and shatters it, though not without damage. Finally, the stone transforms into water, which the sword is unable to resist. The sword rusts and withers away in this eternal elemental. The water symbolizes the flourishing grassroots-organizing of indigenous communities and their allies in contemporary Mexico. The lesson of the tale is that we shall live to see an indigenous-centric Mexico and, indeed, an entire world.

Tracklist 17 tracks

  1. 1 Scene 1: Enter the Mirrors 02:56
    Track
    1
    Title
    Scene 1: Enter the Mirrors
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  2. 2 Scene 1: Interlude 01:00
    Track
    2
    Title
    Scene 1: Interlude
    Duration
    01:00
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  3. 3 Scene 1: Overture of the Mushroom 02:38
    Track
    3
    Title
    Scene 1: Overture of the Mushroom
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  4. 4 Scene 1: Overture of the Sword 05:44
    Track
    4
    Title
    Scene 1: Overture of the Sword
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  5. 5 Scene 2: Interlude 01:12
    Track
    5
    Title
    Scene 2: Interlude
    Duration
    01:12
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  6. 6 Scene 2: Mulberry Tree 02:53
    Track
    6
    Title
    Scene 2: Mulberry Tree
    Duration
    02:53
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  7. 7 Scene 2: Orchid Mantis 04:55
    Track
    7
    Title
    Scene 2: Orchid Mantis
    Duration
    04:55
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  8. 8 Scene 2: Mulberry Tree (reprise) 01:51
    Track
    8
    Title
    Scene 2: Mulberry Tree (reprise)
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  9. 9 Interlude 01:04
    Track
    9
    Title
    Interlude
    Duration
    01:04
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  10. 10 Scene 3: Attack of the Drone 02:26
    Track
    10
    Title
    Scene 3: Attack of the Drone
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  11. 11 Scene 3: The Workers' March 03:16
    Track
    11
    Title
    Scene 3: The Workers' March
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  12. 12 Scene 3: Stoneflower Requiem 04:47
    Track
    12
    Title
    Scene 3: Stoneflower Requiem
    Duration
    04:47
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  13. 13 Scene 4: The Four Mirrored Butterfly 07:37
    Track
    13
    Title
    Scene 4: The Four Mirrored Butterfly
    Duration
    07:37
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  14. 14 Scene 4: The Sisters Unite 05:33
    Track
    14
    Title
    Scene 4: The Sisters Unite
    Duration
    05:33
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  15. 15 Scene 4: The Sword Dissolves 01:14
    Track
    15
    Title
    Scene 4: The Sword Dissolves
    Duration
    01:14
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  16. 16 Scene 4: The Rising Sun 00:52
    Track
    16
    Title
    Scene 4: The Rising Sun
    Duration
    00:52
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro
  17. 17 Scene 4: A Stone Against Time 00:49
    Track
    17
    Title
    Scene 4: A Stone Against Time
    Duration
    00:49
    Composer
    Ben Barson
    Ensemble
    Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Conductor
    Federico Garcia de Castro