Mabe Fratti - Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos? review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month

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(Unheard of Hope Records)
Living in a Mexican artist community has led to fruitful collaborations for the Guatemalan musician, using the sound of birds and animals alongside varied instrumentation

With most of the world swiftly entering lockdown in early 2020, few of us could say we had found ourselves in the right place at the right time. Yet musical connections led the Guatemalan cellist and composer Mabe Fratti to quarantine in the artist compound La Orduña, outside Mexico City. It proved to be exactly where she needed to be to compose her second album, Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos? (Will We be Able to Understand Each Other Now?).