The Mexico City based Guatemalan cellist shares a new video from her latest album Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos
The video for Mabe Fratti's “Que Me Hace Saber Esto” (“What Makes Me Know This”) sees film makers Alice Pontiggia and Eduardo Makoszay Mayén zooming in on the mountainous surroundings from their base in Northern Italy during isolation, and then incorporating the microcosms visible at their feet when they were once again able to venture outdoors. “The video is an attempt to represent this life-energy while guided by Mabe’s track in the editing room”, they say. “As an afterthought, we realised that the toponymy of the place – Bema – shares the same letters as Mabe’s name.”
The film accompanies a track from Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos (Will We Be Able To Understand Each Other Now), the second album by musician and composer Fratti, who speaks about her own surroundings in Mexico City inside The Wire 450: “There’s music everywhere,” she says, “all the time, loud music. And there’s a shout for everything – for the rubbish, for food, for gas, all repeated. There’s also a bell for trash, or a triangle for selling sweets...”
Read Joe Muggs's interview with Mabe Fratti in full in The Wire 450. Subscribers can also access the article via the online archive. Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos is released by Unheard Of Hope.
