Mursego

Photo: Víctor Iriarte

Mursego is Maite Arroitajauregi. Mursego is bat in Portuguese. Mursego makes music with a cello, a pedal loop station, a whistle, Chinese cymbals, slide whistle, tambourine, ukelele, keyboard with colourful lights, autoharp, rhymes, claps, improvisation and voice. Maite has been a cellist in many bands in the Basque Country: Anari, Lisabö, Xabier Montoia, Ama say, etcetera.

Mursego is her solo project and in 2009 she recorded and published what was her first album, Bat (1), self-edited and presented live on stages from Paris to Rome. In late 2012, Maite published her second album as Mursego Bi (2), a clear progression in sound, increasingly further away from the experimental and approaching a song format. After a period in which she collaborated on several projects related to film (Emak Bakia, Invisible), dance and theatre, her third album arrived Hiru (3), her definitive confirmation and the consolidation of a fascinating universe that is increasingly her own. And increasingly more pop. Pop in the broadest and most noble sense of the word: a music that continues to draw from rock, from the avant-garde, from classical and from folk music (from the most diverse geographies): put differently, popular music from here and now, because "here" is now everywhere. After another immersion in other film projects (Amama by Asier Altuna and Morir by Fernando Franco) and presenting live stage performances with Harkaitz Cano and Ixiar Rozas, she is now presenting her latest project, a collective album recorded with and for the village of Oion (Álava).