DE ESO NO SE HABLA (2025)
The soundtrack to the new podcast series directed by writer and audio-documentarian Isabel Cadenas Cañón. Coming soon.
AUSKALO (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 Moscow, commissioned by the Irun city council and initiated by the Soinulabor initiative. It will be broadcast on March 7th at the Oiasso Museum in Irun.
HOLOBIONTEA (2024)
Holobiontea is an audio fiction series created by Ulu media for EITB podcasts. It is the first fiction podcast to feature music by Maite Larburu.
ERREPLIKA (2024)
Soundtrack made for the Zazpi t'erdi collective. This documentary film deals with the theme of absence following the incident of the mother from Zikuñaga who disappeared in Hernani.
ARRAILAK
In 2017, a young girl in southern India committed suicide after a school teacher asked her to leave the classroom. The teacher's reason was that the girl's clothes had menstrual blood stains on them.
We women have a chasm within us that fills and empties with blood at the behest of the moon. This blood is still a source of shame: in Kenya, one in ten teenagers stops going to school when their period comes, because they cannot afford to buy headscarves and because they are ashamed of their spots.
Without having to go that far, our ancestors, as well as we, are aware of this shame.
Arrailak (KRAK, 2021) is a song dedicated to the beauty of the female cycle. Maite Larburu sings about how her grandmother got her period, as if listening to her.
Here, the song Arrailak has been turned into an animated video clip thanks to the illustrator Ainara Azpiazu “Axpi”, the animator Oskarbi Sein and the Hernani City Council's Creative Grant.
ENCAJA2
Jovellanos Theatre, Gijón
Live session given at the Jovellanos Theater in Gijón in April 2023. Carlos Taroncher, bass clarinet Ander Zulaika, drums
KRAK (2021)*
Every time you feel a crack, when you break, you expand. That's the album KRAK: a collection of songs that will unite you even stronger through music that cracks. In this work by Maite Larburu, musicians Carlos Taroncher and Karlos Arancegui are her companions. Ignoring the orthodox ways of playing the bass clarinet and drums, you will transform the bass clarinet into an electronic device, and the drums into a percussion set, empowered by their unique way of playing. Larburu has supported her voice with classical guitar, electric guitar, violin, viola and synths.
* MUSIKA BULEGOA AWARD 2022
AHO ARRARO
If language is a mirror of the character of a people, so is the mouth, its transmitter in its physiological works. A circus and humorous song, dedicated to Basque, in praise of freakism.
Maite Larburu: music, lyrics, voice, violin, synths
Carlos Taroncher: bass clarinet
Karlos Arancegui: jingles, drums
FILMS
Asier Altuna: director
Javi Agirre: director of photography
Raúl López: editing
Marian Fernández: production
Alazne Ameztoy: assistant props
Lola López: makeup
Itziar Arrieta: hairdressing
HEZURREN AZPIAN (2019)*
Maite's first solo album. Entirely in Basque, this album was created in Hernani, when Larburu was already back in the Basque Country. Itzulera is an intimate and homely album, created, arranged and built by Maite. The lyrics of some of the songs are by Harkaitz Canor. In addition to the bass clarinet of Carlos Taroncher, there are also percussive touches by Aida Torres and Beñat Iturrioz, created by a collection of cans, jars, pots and pans.
* MUSIKA BULEGOA AWARD 2020
GONA
Why has the skirt become a symbol of a certain gender? What does the skirt hide or reveal? Would you dare to climb up a skirt?
Maite Larburu: music, words, voice and violin
Carlos Taroncher: bass clarinet
Aida Torres & Beñat Iturrioz: percussion
FILMS
Director: ASIER ALTUNA “Kixi”
Producer: MARIAN FERNANDEZ PASCAL
Director of Photography: ADRIAN HERNANDEZ “Adro H”
Electric: ADRIAN SERNA “Pumita”
Edition: IGNACIO BILBAO “Romanian Power”
Dresses-Skirts: Jugatx & Saioa
HAU (2016)
This album, which became Neighbor's second album, was created between Hernani and Amsterdam. We could say that it is the album that contains some of Larburu's most unusual songs and melodies, the most exotic. In addition to being the creator of Maite songs and lyrics, he began to experiment with different musical instruments, accompanied by Cheatham's electric touch. The first participation of bass clarinet player Carlos Taroncher also took place on this album.
HAU (2016)
Do you hear THIS? this? this? this? this? this?
If you listen, I'm not alone anymore.
Maite Larburu: music, lyrics, guitar
Josh Cheatham, guitar
From Txintxua films.
EZIN
Put water in your pocket, catch the wind. What's the point?
Maite Larburu: voice, violin
Josh Cheatham: Viola da gamba
Chinxua films