Pegi Vail's "GRINGO TRAILS" -- Original soundtrack by Laura Ortman

by Laura Ortman

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$15 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

36

releases

Get all 36 Laura Ortman releases available on Bandcamp and save 10%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of SMOKE RINGS SHIMMERS ENDLESS BLUR, TRANSONIC US <<-->> (SUBWAYS), 2 1 2 2 SOLO (LIVE! at Union Pool 2/1/22), BROOKLYN BRIDGE BOREALIS, BECAUSE ONCE YOU ENTER MY HOUSE IT BECOMES OUR HOUSE, SCENDED SPARKS (live performance curated by Electric Eclectics), WHIRLWIND SMOKES THE SOUND WAVES //as part of STTLMNT: an Indigenous digital world wide occupation…, LOVE YOU, and 28 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$333 USD or more (10% OFF)

1.	Gringo Trails 02:09	buy track
2.	Search Party 01:11	buy track
3.	Fall to the Earth 00:13	buy track
4.	My Life was Saved 02:27	buy track
5.	Tree Tops 00:55	buy track
6.	Waves Awake 02:58	buy track
7.	Piranhas 01:13	buy track
8.	Teeths 01:22	buy track
9.	Lost 00:32	buy track
10.	The Slow Down Railer 01:17	buy track
11.	Hot Water 00:29	buy track
12.	The Snake Conclusion 01:05	buy track
13.	Salt Whites 04:31	buy track
14.	Uyuni 04:00	buy track
15.	Fredo I Will Remember You 02:27	buy track
16.	Timbuktu 02:42	buy track
17.	The Night Rider 02:49	buy track
18.	Nothing Grows Here 00:36	buy track
19.	Understanding Under Stars 03:47	buy track
20.	Thailand 01:05	buy track
21.	Look Out Love 01:16	buy track
22.	Take Me There With You 00:59	buy track
23.	The Natural State 01:05	buy track
24.	Wrapping Maps 00:43	buy track
25.	Sideways Smash 01:54	buy track
26.	Fuckbuckets 00:51	buy track
27.	Road Rage Her (LIVE, starring The Dust Dive Flash) 03:36	buy track
28.	Beach Bottles 01:45	buy track
29.	The Lightweight 04:35	buy track
30.	Chalalan 02:30	buy track
31.	Don't Eat The Monkey 02:14	buy track
32.	Paths We've Carved 04:42	buy track
33.	Visions 02:23	buy track

about

GRINGO TRAILS is a feature-length documentary that raises urgent questions about one of the most powerful globalizing forces of our time: tourism. Spanning South America, Africa and Asia, the tourist pathway known as the “gringo trail” has facilitated both life-altering adventures and the despoiling of many once virgin environments. The film follows stories along the trail to reveal the complex relationships between colliding cultures: host countries hungry for financial security and the tourists who provide it in their quest for authentic experiences.

About director Pegi Vail:

Pegi Vail (Director/Producer) is an anthropologist and Associate Director of the Center for Media, Culture, and History at NYU. She has taught at NYU and Columbia University on Film, Culture, and Tourism. Her book, Right of Passage, based on her research among backpackers in Bolivia as a Fulbright scholar, is forthcoming (Duke University Press). Vail has additionally served as lecturer for Columbia Alumni Travel Study Tours, National Geographic and Soros Open Society and as a judge for the World Travel and Tourism Council’s Tourism for Tomorrow Awards. As a curator, she has collaborated with organizations such as the Museum of the American Indian, American Museum of Natural History, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and The Moth, the storytelling collective she was a founding board member and curator for. Vail currently serves on the Moth’s General Council and Curatorial Committee. She directed the award-winning short documentary, The Dodger’s Sym-phony. Gringo Trails is her first feature-length documentary.

All music composed and performed by Laura Ortman -- violin, electric guitar, piano, vocals, casio, percussion

Jim Pugliese and Christine Bard -- drums, percussion

Recorded at The Dust Dive by Laura Ortman, Brooklyn, New York

About Composer Laura Ortman:

Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) received the FIRST NATIONS COMPOSERS INITIATIVE Common Ground Award Grant for founding The Coast Orchestra, the all-Native American orchestra in 2008. They premiered to sold-out audiences at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and opening night of the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival in New York. She was a founding member of THE DUST DIVE and member of the acclaimed, genre-bending New York band STARS LIKE FLEAS, who has performed at Centre Pompidou (Paris) and MoMA (NYC) and has written and recorded two solo albums (recorded by Martin Bisi) playing violin, Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, samples, megaphone and organ. Her second solo album Someday We’ll Be Together was named one of RPM: Indigenous Music Culture’s “10 Most Influential Indigenous Album’s of 2011” and her video for I Lost My Shadow (dir. by Nanobah Becker, starring New York City Ballet’s Jock Soto) won “Best Music Video” at imagineNative 2011. Her first solo album Tens of Thousands was released on free103point9’s Transmission arts Dispatch Series. Ortman composed the score to the short film, Ok Breathe Auralee (dir: Brooke Swaney), which premiered at Sundance in 2012.

More information about Gringo Trails: gringotrails.com

credits

released August 31, 2014

license

about

Laura Ortman Brooklyn, New York

2022 FORGE PROJECT Fellow, 2022 USA Artist Fellow, 2022 FCA Grants to Artists, 2020 JEROME@CAMARGO RESIDENCY, 2019 WHITNEY BIENNIAL, 2017-18 JEROME FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP, 2016 ART MATTERS GRANT AWARDEE, 2016 NATIVE ARTS AND CULTURE FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP, 2014 RAUSCHENBERG RESIDENCY, Artist-inResidence, Issue Project Room NYC, 2008 First Nations Composers Initiative Grant ... more

contact / help

Contact Laura Ortman

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Laura Ortman, you may also like:

Service
by Family Dynamics

The sole recording from this Brooklyn group, “Service” is hushed and mysterious, its artful songs defying easy categorization. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 28, 2023
go to album
Medicine Singers
by Medicine Singers

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jul 7, 2023
go to album
Aramoana
by Robert Scott, Takumi Motokawa

The Clean’s Robert Scott teams with Takumi Motokawa for a record of dense and riveting improvised music. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 20, 2023
go to album
Frontal
by Illusion of Safety

A collection of unreleased material from Daniel Burke's beloved experimental project, spanning four decades of loud, off-kilter weirdness. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 21, 2023
go to album
INFERUS
by Dark Sky Burial

Napalm Death vocalist Shane Embury swaps breakneck grind for industrial ambient grooves, bringing his skills as a producer to the forefront. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 4, 2023
go to album
The Woe Trumpets
by MATHOMS

Slowly expanding songs that hypnotize you, revealing their rich textures through repeated listens. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 18, 2022
go to album
I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon
by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri

This two-part collaboration between composers Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Emile Mosseri consists of two 17-minute sides. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 3, 2022
go to album