Susie Ibarra
Susie Ibarra (born Anaheim, California, November 15, 1970) is a contemporary composer and percussionist who has worked and recorded with jazz, classical, world, and Indigenous musicians. She is known for her work as a performer in avant-garde, jazz, world and new music. As a composer, Ibarra incorporates diverse styles and influences of Philippine Kulintang, jazz, classical, poetry, musical theater, opera and electronic music. Ibarra remains active as a composer, performer, educator and documentary filmmaker in the U.S., Philippines and internationally. She is interested and involved in works that blend folkloric and indigenous tradition with avant-garde. In 2004, Ibarra began field recording indigenous Philippine music and co-founded in 2009, Song of the Bird King, an organization focusing on preservation of Indigenous music and ecology.
Early years
Ibarra was born in Anaheim, California, and raised in Houston, Texas. Her parents Bartolome and Herminia Ibarra are both physicians who immigrated from the Philippines. Ibarra is the youngest of five children. She began playing piano at the age of four. In grade school she sang in church and school choirs and played in a punk rock band in high school. While at Sarah Lawrence College in the late 1980s, Ibarra attended a Sun Ra performance which she has credited with kindling her interest in jazz. She also attended the Mannes College The New School for Music, and Goddard College, where she received her B.A. in Music.
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ALBUMS
- 50th Birthday Celebration, Volume 8 released: 2004
- Folkloriko released: 2004
- Songbird Suite released: 2002
- Bids released: 2001
- Flower After Flower released: 2000
- Daedal released: 1999
- Home Cookin' released: 1998
- Drum Talk released: 1998
- Radiance released:
- Tone Time released:
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Venting The Anger
by: SusperiaHere we go again, haven't
seen the fortuneand fame
Anything you haven't told
me yet, like being part
of a game
I like the way you're
telling me, you're gonna
meke me rich
Nothing happens still,
have I lost
Isolate, don't let it flow
Idolize my way, then
choose where to go
I wont stop
even though you do
I know there's something
wrong with your heart
Lies from the start
till the end
You never were my friend
And in the end you will see
how close you stand to me
I can't see an ending
Who will help me rise again
On the road to ruin
Save me, I believe in
nothing
Feed of my blood,
sit back and have a laugh
No need to pretend, I know
you're not my friend
The more I try the less
I get from you
No more, I cry, the mess
you put me though
I can't see an ending
Who will help me rise again
On the road to ruin
Save me, I believe in
nothing
There and back again,
memories of failure
and shame
Can you do anything right,
some things will never
change
I like the way you're pushing
me in your direction
Nothing matters now, you have lost
Isolate, don't let it flow
Idolize my way,
then choose where to go
I wont stop,
even though you do
I konow there's something
wrong with your heart
I can't see an ending
Who will help me rise again
On the road to ruin
Save me, I believe in
nothing
Can You see me
Who will help me up now
All alone here
Save me when