MAIZTER (new album)
This tenant, or Maizter, is occupied by many others.
Simple in character, recorded by Larburu herself, this album is an attempt to recreate a more artisanal sound.
Classical guitar, voice, and violin blend this time with organic sounds of birds, rivers, forests, cars, cranes, neighborhood noises... creating a style that stems from the ancient but merges with the everyday. Or a progressive folk, if you want to label it.
The starting point of listening and Larburu's location will be in constant orbit; the music will be perceived now from here and then from there. This album will be a space to travel through that will have you entering a song and emerging to many other places and starting all over again; you won't know who is Maizter of whom.
Musically mixed by Mikel Azpiroz and Larburu, and with binaural sound effects by Koldo Corella, Maizter takes on another dimension when listened to with headphones, making the boundaries even more blurred.
We are ephemeral; we are on loan to the world, to the body, to life, to sound.
And so is the Maizter universe.
MAIZTER single
TENANT
Nothing stands still, nothing belongs to anyone. We come into the world to leave it. Life is a loan and we just inhabit it until the song ends. Is it me who's singing inside you or the car passing by? Are you going through this music or is the music living in you right now? Debts to the mother are never paid. Not even those done to the world. But we pay them off a little singing with love, like old craftspeople did.gaten ala musika da oraintxe zugan bizi dena? Amari egindako zorrak ez dira inoiz ordaintzen. Ezta munduari egindakoak ere. Baina kantuz kitatzen ditugu guk zertxobait, artisau zaharren modura, maitasunez.
DE ESO NO SE HABLA (2025)
Soundtrack composed for the new documentary series directed by writer and sound documentary-maker Isabel Cadenas Cañón. It will be published soon.
AUSKALO BUSKALO (2025)
This first audio story by Maite Larburu tells the experiences of Mertxe Tranche and Josune Urrusolo, among many other testimonies. A podcast about a bookstore that existed in the nineties near Mosku neighborhood, commissioned by the Irun city council and promoted by SoinuLabor initiative.
HOLOBIONTEA (2024)
Holobiontea is a fiction podcast created by Ulu media for the Basque National Radio podcast platform (EITB). First time Maite Larburu composes a soundtrack for a podcast series.
REPLICA (2024)
Soundtrack made for Zazpi t'erdi collective. This documentary addresses the issue of absence after the disappearance of the Virgin of Zikuñaga in Hernani, Basque Country.
ARRAILAK
(The cracks)
In 2017, a girl in southern India committed suicide after a school teacher asked her to leave the classroom. The reason was a couple of menstrual blood stains on the her clothes.
Women have within us a crack that fills and empties with blood according to the moon. This blood continues to be a source of shame: in Kenya, one in ten teenagers stops going to school when they get their period, because they cannot afford to buy sanitary pads and avoid the shame blood stains causes them.
Without needing to go that far, our ancestors, like us, know about this shame.
Arrailak (KRAK, 2021) is a song dedicated to the beauty of women's cycle. Maite Larburu sings how her grandmother got her period, just as she heard her tell it many times.
Arrailak has been turned into an animated video clip thanks to cartoonist Ainara Azpiazu "Axpi", animator Oskarbi Sein and the Creation Grant awarded by the Hernani City Council.
ENCAJA2 - Live concert
Jovellanos Theatre, Gijón
Live concert performed at Jovellanos Theater in Gijón (Asturias) on April 2023.
Carlos Taroncher, bass clarinet
Ander zulaika, drums
KRAK (2021)*
Every time you crack open, every time you break, you expand. This album is a collection of songs that want to mend our pieces together through music. Here, musicians Carlos Taroncher and Karlos Arancegui are Larburu's companions. Jumping over the orthodox ways of playing their instrument, they transform the bass clarinet into an electronic device and the drums into a percussion set. Larburu has accompanied her voice with classical guitar, electric guitar, violin, viola and synths.
* MUSIKA BULEGOA AWARD 2022
AHO ARRARO (Odd mouth)
If a language mirrors the character of its speakers, so does the mouth. In praise of freakism, a circuslike fun song, dedicated to the basque language or euskera.
Maite Larburu: music, lyrics, voice, violin, synths
Carlos Taroncher: bass clarinet
Karlos Arancegui: drums
TXINTXUA FILMS
Asier Altuna: direction
Javi Agirre: photography direction
Raúl López: edition
Marian Fernández: production
Alazne Ameztoy: atrezzo
Lola López: make up
Itziar Arrieta: hair styling
Elizabeth Macklin: english translation
HEZURREN AZPIAN (Underneath the bones)
(2019)*
Maite's first solo album. Entirely in basque, this album is an intimate and homely, inspired by Maite's come back to Basque Country after 16 years living in The Netherlands. The lyrics of some of the songs are by writer Harkaitz Canor. In addition to the bass clarinet of Carlos Taroncher, there are percussive touches by Aida Torres and Beñat Iturrioz, that play on a collection of cans, jars, pots and pans.
* MUSIKA BULEGOA AWARD 2020
GONA (Skirt)
Why has the skirt become the symbol of a certain gender? What does the skirt hide or allow to see? Would you dare ride on a skirt?
Maite Larburu: music, lyrics, voice y violin
Carlos Taroncher: bass clarinet
Aida Torres& Beñat Iturrioz: percussion
TXINTXUA FILMS
Director: ASIER ALTUNA “Kixi”
Producer: MARIAN FERNANDEZ PASCAL
Photo director: ADRIAN HERNANDEZ “Adro H”
Electrician: ADRIAN SERNA “Pumita”
Edition work: IGNACIO BILBAO “Rumano Power”
Skirts: Jugatx & Saioa
HAU (This)
(2016)
Neighbor's second album. Created between Hernani and Amsterdam. It contains some of Larburu's most unusual songs and melodies, perhaps the most exotic ones. Accompanied by Cheatham's electric guitar's touch, bass clarinetist Carlos Taroncher also appears on this album.
HAU (2016)
Do you hear THIS? this? this? this? this? this?
If you are indeed hearing it, I'm not alone anymore.
Maite Larburu: music, lyrics, guitar
Josh Cheatham, guitar
By Txintxua films
EZIN
Put water in your pocket, catch the wind.
What' fotr?
Maite Larburu: voice, violin
Josh Cheatham: Viola da gamba
By Txintxua films