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Exploring the world through creativity & collaboration. WE ARE A record label & MusicLAB based in Brooklyn, NY. we Are IGM community:

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Founded by Julián De La Chica.

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SUSAN CAMPOS—FONSECA

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02.07.25

Campos—Fonseca:
LA CREACIÓN SIN MAÑANA

[IGM] proudly presents the live recording of Campos—Fonseca’s La Creación sin Mañana, marking its second performance. Originally commissioned in 2021 by Alejandro Gutiérrez—Mena, principal conductor of the University of Costa Rica Symphony Orchestra (OSUCR), and harpsichordist María Clara Vargas—Cullell, La Creación sin Mañana was composed for harpsichord with a Noise Machine (soloist), two trumpets, four horns, piano, string orchestra, and percussion ensemble.

ROSARIO ARMAS

OUT NOW

11.01.24

De La Chica: ARIAS FLORENTINAS &
CANCIONES DE LA MUERTE

Irreverence Group Music [IGM] presents the debut studio album of Mexican mezzo-soprano Rosario Armas, accompanied by her husband, Cuban pianist Ahmed Alom, set to be released on November 1st (Día de los Muertos).

Rosario Armas by JDLCH

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“Armas employs the full breadth of her vocal register, skillfully transitioning from lower, Verdian mezzo tones to the gentleness of bel canto legato. Her mastery echoes the golden—age singers…”

— Juan Lázaro
Spanish coach and assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera of New York

Rosario Armas by JDLCH

BRIANA HUNTER

OUT NOW

11.17.23

De La Chica: DISPERSED AND
TRANSCENDENTAL CHANTS

Praised as a “Mesmerizing mezzo-soprano with a fiery theatrical presence and dynamic vocalism” Opera News, Briana Hunter is set to release her latest album, Dispersed and Transcendental Chants, with pianist Eric Sedgwick on November 17, 2023.

Briana Hunter by JDLCH

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“The deeply EMOTIONAL album forges bridges between this world and ancestral veneration, African spirituality, personal confession, grief, and strength.”

— I Care If You Listen

Briana Hunter by JDLCH

FEATURED

GREGORIA TALKS MUSIC

01.16.24

Xolo Cantillo Brings Colombian Vibrance to the UNITED NATIONS in New York

Xolo Cantillo by JDLCH

His new exhibition, Tropic Topic, at the United Nations pays tribute to Colombian culture through an exploration of everyday details, textures, and colors.

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Collaborators

Rosario Armas
Mexico

Mari Garcés
Norway

Susan Campos-Fonseca
Costa Rica

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VISUALS

ON SET | YANA MANN

09.19.21

Yana Mann by JDLCH

Brooklyn record label Irreverence Group Music (IGM) takes us behind the scenes with the eclectic classical singer, whom they film for her Carnegie Hall debut.

A Film by Julián De La Chica

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FILMS

AGATHA

10.10.20

IGM presents Agatha, the first film made by Brooklyn-based, Colombian-born composer, pianist, and filmmaker Julián De La Chica. The film debuted at the Festival de Cine de Bogotá (Bogocine) in its 37th Year and since its completion in spring 2020, Agatha has circulated through nearly three dozen international film festivals, and has received numerous accolades for its outstanding cinematography, acting, LGBTQUIA+ and experimental significance, and haunting film score.

Available on Amazon Prime

Agatha by Julian De La Chica

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Agatha by JDLCH

“De La Chica exhibits directorial competency in creating a fully-realised canvas; through his melancholic score, long takes and unkempt man and cave surrounded by alcohol and drugs, Agatha evokes isolation and loneliness, unfulfilled sexual desire and repression, and depression to the point of self-termination.”

— Adrian Perez Lonely Wolf Festival

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LISA MOORE

03.01.18

Described as “brilliant and searching… beautiful and impassioned… lustrous at the keyboard” by The New York Times and crowned “New York’s queen of avant-garde piano” and “visionary” by The New Yorker, the celebrated pianist Lisa Moore releases a new album DE LA CHICA: PRELUDES OP. 8 on March 1st 2018. The album - produced and published by IGM, is the Premiere Recording of the New York based Colombian composer Julián De La Chica's Preludes Op. 8 for piano and synthesizer.

PLAYLIST

MINIMAL PIANO

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BOOKS

GOD’S PUNISHMENT

06.29.22

Since 2000, composer Julián De La Chica has been researching Agua de Dios, Colombia, and its history as a town forcibly confining leprosy patients and those suspected of having leprosy. For his research, De La Chica visited the community and interviewed persons with information about those who crossed the Puente de Los Suspiros (Bridge of Sighs) over the Río Bogotá and into the concentration camps.

Those inmates, who were forced by the Colombian government to relinquish their rights as citizens—their identities, possessions, and families—numbered into the tens of thousands until the leprosarium was closed in 1961.

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“God’s Punishment is not just about a painful past. Even now, people often suffer not as much from the health conditions they have as from the public health measures that are supposed to manage those conditions. The fate of people affected by leprosy, and its impact on entire generations, is one of those sad stories. With powerful language, author Julián De La Chica reminds and warns us of what can happen when human rights are taken away from people.”

— Professor Dainius Pūras, MD | Psychiatrist and human rights advocate. Former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health

De La Chica book cover

* God's Punishment won the AWA (Award-Winning Author) award for Best Novel - Historical Fiction - English, and it has also received an Honorable Mention for Best LGBTQ+ Theme Book at the 25th edition of the International Latino Book Awards 2023 (ILBA). During the award ceremony at Los Angeles City College in LA, the book received the Silver Medal under its category.

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