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Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt: Almost Waking review – cellist and guitarist unite for tender harmonies and torrid tangles

The Guatemalan newcomer and US veteran find striking common ground on an intimate collaboration full of agitation, complexity and uncanny chemistry

The Guardian - UK

Add to playlist: the dadaist cubist racket of Angine de Poitrine and the week’s best new tracks

This hyped anonymous duo match the oddness of their costumes with shredding metal, microtonal flourishes and Dalek-style vocals

The Guardian - UK

The 10 best global albums of 2025

Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan returns with mournful minimalism, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra’s 1982 album of Punjabi disco makes a comeback and Venezuelan-Guatemalan duo Titanic serve up ecstatic tracks

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End of the Road review – from industrial rackets to pristine folk, festivals don’t get more varied or vital

Full of warmth despite the rain, highs include Mexico City experimentalists Titanic and Vermont songwriter Lily Seabird’s gorgeously open-hearted voice

The Guardian - UK

Titanic: Hagen review – Mabe Fratti and Hector Tosta darken their ecstatic experimental earworms

On their second collaborative album, the couple based in Mexico City add pop shimmer and thundering blastbeats to their unique, always-surprising sound

The Guardian - UK

AP's top under-the-radar albums of 2024: Mabe Fratti, Arooj Aftab, Blood Incantation and more

At the end of every year, great art inevitably gets overlooked

The Independent UK

Mabe Fratti: Sentir Que No Sabes review – rich, rewarding, spellbinding music from a true original

The full-blooded and emotionally driven fourth solo album from the avant garde pop cellist is abundantly melodic, constantly surprising and unequivocally fantastic

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‘Doubt is exciting’: cellist Mabe Fratti on chaos, curiosity and climbing volcanoes

An acclaimed new voice in experimental music, the Guatemalan cellist swapped scaling literal and creative peaks for a more exploratory mindset, finding community and fertile collaborations in Mexico City’s improv scene

The Guardian - UK

Titanic: Vidrio review – joyous Mexico City duo are unbounded by genre

Somewhere between jazz and chamber pop, multi-instrumentalist Hector Tosta pairs a dizzying variety of sound with Mabe Fratti’s strings and vocals

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Oneohtrix Point Never’s cultural highlights

The experimental musician and producer on a mind-blowing Guatemalan cellist, the joys of ‘smear frames’ in old-school animated films and his favourite brand of vegan caviar

The Guardian - UK

5 great Latin albums of 2022 (not by Bad Bunny or Rosalía)

After five years of Latin music's meteoric ascent in the American mainstream, it's hardly surprising — at least to anyone paying attention — that Bad Bunny and Rosalía's exhilarating new albums have eclipsed even the most popular Anglophone artists of today. While the Puerto Rican heartthrob's summer smash, "Un Verano…

Los Angeles Times

Mabe Fratti: Se Ve Desde Aquí review – cathartic and powerful experimentation

The Guatemalan musician layers soft vocals and jarring textures to create a direct and forceful new tone

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