Album Notes

amniotic/flow, written and performed by mother-daughter team Sharon Bridgforth and Sonja Perryman. amniotic/flow text is the result of the directorial and dramaturgical support of interdisciplinary theatre artist Daniel Alexander Jones. the amniotic/flow blends text with original music and soulful vocal orchestration.

\"Art that is personal is universal when it is powerful and specific,\" Bridgforth said in the video introduction. The pieces in \"amniotic/flow\" proved her point. Jamie Smith Cantara, AUSTIN AMERICAN
STATESMAN July 3, 2003.

BIOS
Sonja Perryman is a graduate from NYU\'s Tisch School Of The Arts (Drama Department). Perryman is a professional theatre artist/focusing on work that fuses dance, song and nonlinear text. For more info go to: http://www.sonjaperryman.com

Sharon Bridgforth is the RedBone Press; Lambda Literary Award winning author of the bull-jean stories, and love conjure/blues (http://www.redbonepress.com). Her work has been presented nationally and is available in many anthologies. For more info check out: http://sharonbridgforth.com

Along with her own music, Amy L. Vanpatten has used her recording, producing and writing skills to compose film soundtracks/trailers and albums for artists of Minneapolis. She is the lead composer for amniotic/flow and is definitely an artist to look out for.

Lourdes Pérez is an internationally acclaimed singer/composer. Perez\' unique composition style draws upon her own improvisational Puerto Rican \"jíbara\" (mountain) roots. For more information visit
http://www.lourdesperez.com.

Camille Rocha received her Bachelors of Music Performance from University of Arizona in Tucson. Rocha also attended Northwestern University in Evanston, IL for Graduate Studies of Music Performance.

amniotic/flow was produced by Lisa Byrd and Ixchel Rosal for The Austin Latina/Latino Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization (ALLGO) as part of their Artist In Residency Program/and was recorded at Blue Cat Studio (San Antonio, TX) and Tequila Mockingbird Studio (Austin, TX). check out:
http://www.allgo.org