Mabe Fratti and Tipa Tipo

#4927, Hispanic Heritage Week #2: Mabe Fratti, Tipa Tipo

New Sounds | Sep 24, 2024

Celebrate the music and traditions of Latinx artists in work by Mexico City-based Guatemalan cellist Mabe Fratti, and Brooklyn-via-Peru combo Tipa Tipo, in part 2 of our Hispanic Heritage series, recorded for the Soundcheck Podcast series.

Born in Guatemala but active in Mexico City’s bustling music scene, cellist, electronic music producer, and singer Mabe Fratti has been making music for several years that could lean toward the experimental and the avant-garde on the one hand, and what seems to be a flair for pop melodies on the other.  She writes songs that encompass chamber music, electronic music, soundscapes, and hard rock, -perhaps with jazz overtones- without ever settling into any one of them. Fratti and her collaborators have such talent for risk-taking and unpredictability, for playfulness with sound and its manipulation, and for endless riffs - whether cello (amplified and with pedals) or vocal processors, and artfully using feedback, field recordings, and loops. Her latest album is called Sentir que no Sabes, or Feel like you don’t know. Mabe Fratti and her trio play some of these songs in-studio. 

Formed in Peru, the Brooklyn combo Tipa Tipo plays an unexpectedly danceable mix of tropical Latin funk, cumbia, disco, and yacht rock. With their synthesizers, guitar, and tight vocal harmonies, they offer a kind of retro 70s sound, but with a modern, feminist sensibility and lyrics sung mostly in Spanish. Tipa Tipo presents songs from their latest record, Cintas, in-studio, with ALL of the cowbells.

Program #4927,  Hispanic Heritage Week #2:  Mabe Fratti, Tipa Tipo (First aired 9/24/2024)

ARTIST: Monte
WORK: Mirla [:40]
RECORDING: Live on Soundcheck, 2021
SOURCE: newsounds.org/story/monte
INFO: youtube.com, also available via Apple Music or Spotify

ARTIST: Mabe Fratti
WORK: Enfrente [:30]
RECORDING: Sentir que no sabes
SOURCE: Tin Angel Records
INFO: https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sentir-que-no-sabes

ARTIST: Mabe Fratti
WORK: Quieras o no [2:50]
RECORDING: Live on Soundcheck, Sept. 2024
SOURCE: newsounds.org/story/cellist-mabe-fratti
INFO: https://linktr.ee/mabefratti

ARTIST: Mabe Fratti
WORK: Kravitz [4:45]
RECORDING: Live on Soundcheck, Sept. 2024
SOURCE: newsounds.org/story/cellist-mabe-fratti
INFO: https://linktr.ee/mabefratti

ARTIST: Mabe Fratti
WORK: Angel Nuevo [:25]
RECORDING: Sentir que no sabes
SOURCE: Tin Angel Records
INFO: https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sentir-que-no-sabes

ARTIST: Mabe Fratti
WORK: Oidos [3:45]
RECORDING: Live on Soundcheck, Sept. 2024
SOURCE: newsounds.org/story/cellist-mabe-fratti
INFO: https://linktr.ee/mabefratti

ARTIST: Mabe Fratti
WORK: Pantalla Azul [2:55]
RECORDING: Sentir que no sabes
SOURCE: Tin Angel Records
INFO: https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sentir-que-no-sabes

ARTIST: Tipa Tipo
WORK: Invasivos [:38]
RECORDING: Cintas
SOURCE: Bit Rosie
INFO: https://tipatipo.bandcamp.com/album/cintas

ARTIST: Tipa Tipo
WORK: Poco Tiempo [3:41]
RECORDING: Live on Soundcheck, June 2024
SOURCE: newsounds.org/story/brooklyn-peru-combo-tipa-tipo
INFO: https://linktr.ee/tipatipomusic

ARTIST: Tipa Tipo
WORK: Grifo [4:09]
RECORDING: Live on Soundcheck, June 2024
SOURCE: newsounds.org/story/brooklyn-peru-combo-tipa-tipo
INFO: https://linktr.ee/tipatipomusic

ARTIST: Tipa Tipo
WORK: Ataque de Medianoche [3:16]
RECORDING: Live on Soundcheck, June 2024
SOURCE: newsounds.org/story/brooklyn-peru-combo-tipa-tipo
INFO: https://linktr.ee/tipatipomusic

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