Borders / Fronteras – scenes from West Africa / Mexican poetry / avant garde jazz & microtonal soundscapes
In 2022, Tania Márquez and Noah Jordan, the artists behind Borders / Fronteras, undertook a self-directed residency across West Africa. Their five-month journey led them through Spain, The Gambia, Senegal, and Morocco, weaving a path shaped by cultural exchange, sound, and memory. During this time, Noah studied Fulani instruments such as the tambin and nyanyeru, both featured on the album, alongside other instruments with ancestral ties to West Africa and Southern Europe, including the jarana, requinto, and violín tuxteco. Tania’s poetry—rooted in Mexican Spanish—moves fluidly through English and reaches toward Mandinka, Fulani, Wolof, and Arabic, forming a multilingual exploration of voice and belonging.
The resulting album is part of a broader body of work that includes music videos, a photographic exhibition, and a book of travel chronicles and visual documentation.
Borders / Fronteras
Tania Márquez Aragón – Voice / voz, poetry, poesía, field recording
Noah Dean Jordan – utonal jarana, piano, nyanyeru, tambin, violin tuxteco, just intonation requinto (1 & 2), ocarina, shakuhachi, flute, synthesizer, sampling, editing
Mix and mastering – Terry Maple at Maple Trail Studios
Noah Dean Jordan 