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Mabe Fratti

Country: Mexico

Mabe Fratti (María Belén Fratti Sierra) is a Guatemalan cellist, singer and composer based in Mexico City, where she moved after a Goethe-Institut residency in 2015. Classically trained on cello, she writes songs that combine voice and cello with improvisation, electronics and arrangements leaning toward avant-pop, and her fourth solo album, Sentir Que No Sabes, appeared in 2024.

Almost Waking
Guatemalan cellist and singer Mabe Fratti meets guitarist Bill Orcutt: songs built from Orcutt's solo guitar sketches, cello and voice, recorded between Mexico City and San Francisco. CD edition on Unheard of Hope.
III: Paz en las rupturas
Tip! *250 copies limited edition* The Kriego is the joint project of musicians and sound artists Fernando Feria & Emiliano Cruz. Born from cultivating similar creative interests in sound art, improvisation, and composition, the duo weaves a sound bor…
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Sentir Que No Sabes
I started to think about the verb 'superimpose' and the implications this verb has in moments of intense work in dialogue with another and how ideas overlap. I also think about that moment when you feel you don't know anything and you are soft like j…
Pies Sobre La Tierra
*200 copies limited edition* Mabe Fratti is an experimental cello player from Guatemala, currently based in Mexico City. Mabe’s unique and courageous sound has made her one of the most promising new acts in the experimental music scene around the wor…
Planos para Construir
*50 copies limited edition, white cover version* 'During the second half of 2019 I contacted some people that write or create with the use of words and sent them music in order for them to create or add a text. There were opportunities in which some …
Let's Talk About The Weather
* Yellow Vinyl *  Gudrun Gut and Mabe Fratti have worked together on a powerful hybrid album, where taut rhythms fuse with haunted vocal melodies and spoken word, and field recordings meld with extended ambient pieces.  As part of Umor Rex’s 15th ann…