{"title":"Mabe Fratti","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMabe Fratti is a Guatemalan Avant Garde Cellist, renowned for her ethereal voice and music. With a unique blend of noise, classical, electronic, and indie influences, she pushes the boundaries of contemporary music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer captivating compositions transport listeners to otherworldly realms, creating an immersive experience that transcends genres. Mabe's mastery of the cello combined with her haunting vocals result in mesmerizing performances that leave audiences spellbound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs an artist who defies categorization, Mabe Fratti continues to captivate and inspire with her innovative approach to music. Her distinct sound has garnered critical acclaim worldwide and solidified her place as a visionary in the industry.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"se-ve-desde-aqui","title":"Se Ve Desde Aqui","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSe Ve Desde Aquí\u003c\/i\u003e ('It Is Seen From Here') marks another step in a remarkable run of releases from Guatemalan cellist and composer, Mabe Fratti.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is possibly her most revealing one to date; showcasing a sinuous and tensile sound coupled with a confident and clear-eyed worldview. Mabe Fratti is always on the lookout for new ways to express herself and to reflect her surroundings; she sees this as a process of continual \"sonic transformation\". Not that she sees her method as unique: \"I believe this happens to a lot of musicians, that in the interim when you finish a record and you release it you learn [new] things and change your philosophy towards what you want to sound like.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tin Angel","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50401920745803,"sku":"1168129","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f3532fc4-9067-48b9-8296-fd1b778b3062_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726526131"},{"product_id":"sera-que-ahora-podremos","title":"Sera Que Ahora Podremos","description":"\u003cp\u003eSerá que ahora podremos entendernos is the second album to come from Guatemalan cellist Mabe Fratti. Using voice, cello, synthesizers and field recordings, her newest record which translates in English to ‘Will we be able to understand each other now?” is an exploration of communication, not only with others but also ourselves. Now based in Mexico city, Mabe has been heavily involved in the Mexican improvisation scene. Immersing herself in collaborations with fellow musicians operating amongst the scene. The impact of the pandemic meant many of these musicians fled to an old juice factory in Veracruz called La Orduña to quarantine together, where the album came to be created. Mabe’s involvement with the Mexican improvisation scene and her time quarantining with fellow musicians invites many collaborators onto this record. Whilst living in Veracruz, Mabe was able to collaborate with members of drone rock band Tajak, Pedro Tirado and worked remotely with Texan experimentalist Claire Rousay. Mabe’s return to the city, meant further collaborations with the likes of Sebastián Rojas (Sei Still, The Americo Jones Experience) and Hugo Quezada (Robota, Exploded View). Será que ahora podremos entendernos is birthed from the idea that we as people are a funnel that simplify how we communicate with each other and ourselves. Through omission and clumsiness, we often make the process of understanding incredibly complicated. Mabe says “I focused on the idea of “diagramation”. The act of putting something in a room and the process of how you arrange it and applying this to how we arrange words. It’s about how do you move from one place in the room to the other there are objects in the way? There’s always on option to make a route hard and long or short and easy. Looking at it this way and applying it to communication, I couldn’t separate the idea of simplification and optimization. It’s a matter of purpose.” Throughout the record, Mabe uses the questioning to frame how to link the start and the end of a song. Creating objects for the listener to find as the album progresses from layers of cello, synthesizers, guitars, plates, clappings and field recordings such as the birds of La Orduña. Playing between moments of chaosity and experimentation on tracks such as ‘Que Me Hace Saber Esto’ to elements of serene, etherealism created by repetitiveness and simpler arrangements on tracks such as ‘Nadie Sabe’. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50402042806603,"sku":"2167689","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_378cfee0_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726529701"},{"product_id":"pies-sobre-la-tierra-2","title":"Pies Sobre La Tierra","description":"\u003cp\u003eMexico city based, Guatemalan cellist Mabe Fratti debut LP, Pies Sobre la Tierra (Feet On The Ground), on experimental label Unheard of Hope (Peter Zummo, Military Genius). Reconciling Mabe’s steps throughout her musical past, the debut LP features pop and experimentation that reflects her time working amongst the improvisation scene in Mexico City. Mabe Fratti’s sensibility is the triumph of experimentation over technical dominion of an instrument. The experimentation of sound with feelings, with existence itself, with an open heart, letting herself to be transformed by what she lives and hears. This is what has led Mabe Fratti from Guatemala to Mexico City. From the creation of pop songs to free improvisation, from the academy to noise, from collaborations in ensembles and duos to the profound personal journey that is reflected in her solo works. That’s why Mabe’s music converts us to sensible sounding boards: through a hypnotic and captivating performance, Mabe sews contemporary elements like shoe gaze and dream pop with ancestral influences that go from Gregorian chants to Sephardi music, transforming them in ingredients of a potent sonic ritual that causes a profound emotional impact. After collaborating with various artists, Mabe wanted to return to her solo works with the desire to create an album as a whole, not just a collection of tracks. Pies Sobre la Tierra was recorded in Fratti’s room with a Komplete Audio 6 and a MXL 4000 microphone during the first five months of 2019. She used her cello and vocals as protagonists in the instrumentation. Parallel to this, she used synthesizers, field recordings and she outsourced noise with the help of collaborators Concepcion Huerta and Mito del Desierto. Lyrically, she was inspired mostly but not entirely by Murphy by Samuel Beckett. The reason why the album is called Pies Sobre la Tierra (Feet on the ground) is because Mabe wants to refer to the conciliation of the space that we consider mental with the “physical” and “real”. However, even though there’s a sensation of separation, there’s also a unity to which we’re bound to observe through a lens and operate on it through assumptions and intentions. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"White LP.","offer_id":50402048770379,"sku":"2167688","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_ec1a79ef_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726529928"},{"product_id":"sentir-que-no-sabes","title":"Sentir Que No Sabes","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sense of destiny hangs over \u003ci\u003eSentir Que No Sabes\u003c\/i\u003e, Mabe Fratti’s fourth solo-credited album released in a five year span. Her work has always possessed a finely tuned sense of drama capable of expressing a range of emotional states, and across this new album, she conveys the struggle to process various relationships or situations–and the actions that come next. \u003ci\u003eSentir Que No Sabes\u003c\/i\u003e is urgent and clear, poppy, generous and approachable, while showcasing a considerable emotional hinterland. It is also, as Fratti is quick to mention, “groovy.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten and recorded with her partner, multi-instrumentalist, and co-composer Héctor Tosta (I.La Católica, Titanic), \u003ci\u003eSentir Que No Sabes\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of an intense, detail-oriented process. Fueled by a new confidence gained in their collaborative project, Titanic, and its critically acclaimed 2023 LP, Vidrio, the two hunkered down in the familiarity of their studio (aka Tinho Studios) to bash out the initial sonic coordinates of her new record. “We talked and talked, and discussed ways of playing and recording, until things became inevitable,” Fratti explains. “We recorded a bunch of demos at our home studio and that meant we had a lot of time to re-edit and experiment. We really dug in. We were super focused on detail.” Tosta also took up the controls as producer and arranger-in-chief for all additional instruments. The album was later completed at Willem Twee Studios in Den Bosch in the Netherlands, and Pedro y el Lobo Studios and Soy Sauce Studios, in Mexico City. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the final studio recordings, the pair were joined by drummer Gibran Andrade and trumpetist Jacob Wick to fill out and expand on Tosta’s percussion and brass arrangements. This small group of friends were able to work quickly and openly, and without fear: a testament to the exhaustive groundwork put in at Tinho Studios. This can be heard in three short, intermediary tracks that also manage to be the most aggressive on the record: “Kitana” (a scratch-laden instrumental that acts as a strange prelude for the last track, “Angel nuevo”) and a pair of two-minute instrumental interludes, “Elastica” I and II. 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The first single, Estática is a heart-wrenching cello heavy meandering composition classic to the styles of Fratti and Huerta. The release follows Fratti’s critically acclaimed Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos described by Pitchfork as blooming with ecstatic synth riffs and spirited cello, the record captures the sound of a mind abuzz. 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