“rich, rewarding, spellbinding music from a true original”
“Frighteningly prolific, Guatemala-born Mexico-based avant-garde cellist, composer and dabbler Mabe Fratti has charted so much ground in so little time. Since her 2019 debut album, Fratti has carved out a niche as a genuine one-off, a first-rate explorer and experimenter of bold and blazing sounds. Perhaps that of a Central American Arthur Russell is a lazy comparison, given the difference in the ”
“On her new album, the Mexico City-based cellist and singer moves from abstraction toward more familiar pop and rock silhouettes. But her lyrics remain committed to the power of opacity.”
“Mabe Fratti would make a good Oracle. In thinking of a tidy aesthetic phylum to classify the Guatemalan cellist, singer and composer's work so far, there is no shortage of options that graze the surface. Comparisons to Arthur Russell have been made, referring to the late cellist's multivalent approaches to art and pop. Likewise Björk, with her assemblage of styles, touches on similar states of emo”
“Mabe Fratti goes dark and groovy on Sentir Que No Sabes”
