This unusual group, which constantly looks to explore the sound potential of its instruments, is a space of artistic rendezvous and creation (an approach applied since 2018, based on a desire to reach out to a varied audience and foster people’s appreciation of instrumental music).

Basabi’s first disc – Kronos – gives the stone txalaparta a leading role, in which it can deploy all its resources through minimalist compositions influenced by film music that echo those of Hans Zimmer or Philip Glass. These sounds open up a path towards introspection in a society marked by technological change and new forms of communication.

Maria Mendoza’s compositions and arrangements for the group set the mood Basabi sets out to convey. The CD, recorded and mastered by Ernesto Maestro in “Estudios Tio Pete” in September 2020, involved the collaboration of Javier Bejarano, a member of the Asturias-based group “Galgo”, for the electro-acoustic arrangements.