Molk Projects Mestizx - O

Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly releases
in collaboration with Internation Anthem & Nonesuch Records

New EP Release O - 2026
Cassette Tape and digital copies on International Anthem
Pre-save here
First single Release Sept 22 
Full EP Release Oct 16 

Today, the Amsterdam-based duo of Bolivian/Brazilian multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Puerto Rican American ex-pat jazz drummer/composer Frank Rosaly announce a new EP titled O, out on cassette and digitally October 16, 2026. The duo also share details of upcoming performances in Budapest HU, Brest FR, and Tampere FI, where they will do a debut performance of the music from O. The EP’s lead track “X” is out on all platforms today, alongside a video created by Ferragutti & Rosaly for the track. Stream “X” and preorder O here.



Ferragutti and Rosaly will perform a handful of shows across Europe this Fall, including a premiere of “O” at Tampere Jazz Happening, with special guest Ben Boye (Joshua Abrams’ Natural Information Society, Ty Segall, The Weather Station). Dates and links below:



October 3 - Mestizx band @ UH Fest/Trafo in Budapest
October 9 - Mestizx duo @ Atlantique Jazz Festival, Brest
October 28 - “O” premiere (with special guest Ben Boye) @ Tampere Jazz Happening

Mestizx Full Length Album
Released May 3 2024 with Internation Anthem and Nonesuch Records
About
“On Mestizx, we share musical and ancestral roots within the Latinx diaspora of Bolivia, Brazil and Puert Rico. In it, we pay deep reverence to our lineage without the confines of tradition or genre. We are fascinated by the never-ending beauty of latin rhythmic patterns, microtonal mountain flutes and oblon 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 decolonization process in a deliberately loose, eclectic & celebratory story. The music harkens to the richness of ritualistic gatherings, which they recognise 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 appear throughout the record. Allegorical symbolism and dance traditions from the Caribbean and Andes materialise, sometimes as a distant memory, often scrupulously. These aspects have shaped the music to represent Latin cultures and it is deeply woven in the fabric of an eccentric, speculative song-story, rhyming with echoes of protes music marked by post-dictator realities and various socio-political instabilities.”



CONCERTS
Upcoming 
2026 
03/10 UH Fest - Budapest - HU
09/10 Atlantique Jazz Festival - Brest - FR
30/10 Tampere Jazz Happening - Tampere - FIN Premiere O featuring Ben Boye 

Past
2026
21/01 Amare - The Hague - NL
24/01 Flagey Jazz Festival - Brussels - BE
31/01 International Sound Art Festival - The Hague - NL
07/02 Rataplan Borgerhout - Antwerp - BE
28/02 Brilliant Corners Belfast - NIR
05/03 Jazzwerkstatt - Bern - CH
14/03 Taktlos - Zurich - CH
22/08 Blow Out Festival - Oslo - NO
28/08 Concertgebouw - Amsterdam - NL 
2025
01.02 Milan Triennale - Milan IT
20.03 Parkside Kenosha - VS
21.03 Icehouse Minneapolis - VS
22.03 Sleeping Village Chicago - VS
28.03 Big Ears Knoxville - VS
31.03 Solar Myth Philadelphia - VS
01.04 Public Records New York - VS
04.04 Rewire Festival - The Hague NL
05.04 Bimhuis + Space is The Place - Amsterdam NL
11.04 30Formiche - Rome - IT
12.04 Teatro di Polcenigo - Pordenone - IT
13.04 Opening for THE EX Album Release, Paradiso - Amsterdam
18.04 HaConcerts - Gent - BE
02.05 Stanser Musikstage - Stans - CH
30.05 Druga Godba - Ljubliana - SI
01.06 Jazz is Dead Festival, Torino - IT
15.06 Respect Festival, Prague - CZ
20.06 TONE x UMA NOTA - Toronto - CA
21.06 Something Else Festival, Hamilton - CA
22.06 Suoni per Il Popolo, Montreal - CA
27.06 Coastal Jazz Festival - Vancouver - CA
12.07 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam - NL
17.07 Durchlüften Festival - Berlin - DE
15/08 We Out Here Festival - Salisbury - UK
12/09 Sonic Transmissions - Austin Texas - VS
15/11 Jazz Brugge Zaterdag - Concertgebouw Brugge - BE
26-28/11 Band in Residence ArtEZ conservatorium - NL
2024
29.05 AB Brussels - BE
30.05 De Doelen Rotterdam - NL
31.05 Paradiso Tolhuistuin Amsterdam - NL
01.06 CALL Festival Dokzaal - Molk Factory - Space is The place - NL
02.06 Uberjazz Kampnagel Hamburg - DE
04.06 ZWEI ABENDE Berlin - DE
06.06 Stadtgarten Köln - DE
07.06 Church of Sound London - UK
08.06 Ile de Batz France - FR
01.11 Überjazz Kampnagel Hamburg - DE
09.11 Le Guess Who Jacobikerk Utrecht - NL
15.11 EFG London Jazz Festival Kingsplace - UK



PRESS
The Guardian
"Multi-instrumentalists Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Frank Rosaly play freely with the
nuances of Latin rhythms on their debut Mestizx (International Anthem), producing infectiously kinetic
compositions that reference jazz, cumbia, bomba and much more."

Glide Magazine
"The album is a narrative arc from introspection to action, beautifully rendered in a mosaic
of sound that challenges, delights, and inspires. It’s a testament to the power of music to bridge the past and future, making MESTIZX a pivotal debut in the landscape of contemporary world music."
PopMatters "MESTIZX is unquestionably cosmic, but it is also grounded in the real lives and spaces of
artists who refuse to be broken into cultural shards and instead understand themselves as many things at once."

All Music****
"MESTIZX is unlike any other album. It is where the historic cultural past meets present-day
conflict and jingoism. Undaunted, this duo chart a direction and unfettered hope for the future, holism, and acceptance."

Treblezine
"They chart a path forward, just follow the rhythm to see where it leads."
Essential Releases Bandcamp "Amidst the landscape of MESTIZX, the ancestral and the futuristic coexist in symbiosis."

Molars
"It’s a remarkable album: searching, morally and politically outspoken, wildly entertaining."
Monolith Cocktail " This is music that draws you in; unfurls its depths over time. The vocals are
simultaneously beautiful yet split on occasions into a spirit shadow form; a near apparitional invocation
that’s separated from its sister, a guide that takes us back to the old phantasmagoria of pre-colonial
conquest..."

Now Muzika
“MESTIZX is the best embodiment of these metaphysical states. Yes, this is definitely one of
those 2024 albums."

World treasure music
"A deep and experimental jazz album"

Jazz fun Germany
"MESTIZX finds support in the communal, celebratory, soul-comforting and moving
music.”