Mirror Butterfly: The Migrant Liberation Movement Suite

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Label
Innova Recordings
Release Date
August 2, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BARSON, BENJAMIN
    • PERFORMER
      Afro Yaqui Music Collective
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 02, 2019
    • UPC
      726708602925
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      INN029
    • LABEL
      Innova Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. Scene 1: Enter the Mirrors

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    2. Scene 1: Interlude

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    3. Scene 1: Overture of the Mushroom

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    4. Scene 1: Overture of the Sword

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    5. Scene 2: Interlude

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    6. Scene 2: Mulberry Tree

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    7. Scene 2: Orchid Mantis

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    8. Scene 2: Mulberry Tree (reprise)

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    9. Interlude

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    10. Scene 3: Attack of the Drone

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    11. Scene 3: The Workers' March

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    12. Scene 3: Stoneflower Requiem

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    13. Scene 4: The Four Mirrored Butterfly

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    14. Scene 4: The Sisters Unite

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    15. Scene 4: The Sword Dissolves

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    16. Scene 4: The Rising Sun

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro

    17. Scene 4: A Stone Against Time

      Composer: Ben Barson

      Ensemble: Afro Yaqui Music Collective

      Conductor: Federico Garcia de Castro


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.