Maite Dono graduated in Performing Arts from R.E.S.A.D (Madrid).
She started her professional career with some intense theatre activity. Her musical career starts in 1998 with her first solo album called CORAZÓN DE BRIEF in which her only accompaniment was Manuel Gutiérrez’s piano. Her second album was entitled O MAR VERTICAL.
She has taken part in various musical works by groups and artists such as : Na Lúa, La Musgana, Espliego, Alberto Conde, Carlos Beceiro… as well as artists working in other fields. For the past four years, she has been experimenting music with poetry with the group El Intruso.
Her latest contributions to music have been her participation in double bass player Baldo Martínez’s PROJECTO MINO (2007) and her duet with him in SON-NÚS (2009).
As a poet she has published MANTA DE SOMBRA, First International Prize Libros del Egoísta in 1996. O MAR VERTICAL in 2000. DESILENCIOS, awarded with the 23rd Prize Esquío for Poetry in Galician language, 2003. And CIRCUS GIRL in 2009.
She has also participated in several collective books, written texts for theatre and articles for various magazines.
SONS-NÚS :
Sons-Nús is the duo where Maite Dono's voice and Baldo Martínez's double bass meet Jazz, folk and free improvisation. The result is a peculiar sound and interpretative project, where versatility and non-definition play an essential role when it comes to talking about it. Singing or speaking voice (using poetry as a means: Uxío Novoneyra, Dono herself, etc.) can travel from the known to the unknown, and the double bass, also embarked on this perilous voyage, shapes up the music and the expression of the whole ensemble.
Sons-Nús is the duo where Maite Dono's voice and Baldo Martínez's double bass meet Jazz, folk and free improvisation. The result is a peculiar sound and interpretative project, where versatility and non-definition play an essential role when it comes to talking about it. Singing or speaking voice (using poetry as a means: Uxío Novoneyra, Dono herself, etc.) can travel from the known to the unknown, and the double bass, also embarked on this perilous voyage, shapes up the music and the expression of the whole ensemble.
Sons-Nús springs from the idea of working on a more intimate project, where creativity is freer, after both members had shared musical projects which brought them closer stylistically, such as the recent Projecto Miño; which started from folk and a contemporary Jazz language and resulted in a new creative space.
About double bass player and composer Baldo Martínez :
Galician Baldo Martínez is one of the most representative musicians in Spanish contemporary Jazz scene. Quite apart from American Jazz trends and very in line with current European Jazz, his musical activity swings between the latter and free improvisational music. Worth mentioning among his most recent work is Projecto Miño, one of the most daring and innovative projects he has ever directed. On occassion of the release of the album, French magazine Jazz Magazine ranked it “as one of the 10 best new albums of January 2008”, and it went on to be nominated as Best Jazz Album in the Music Awards, as well as being chosen as Best Album of the year 2008 by Cuadernos de jazz magazine.
After founding bands such as Clunia or Zyklus, where his desire to explore new ways became quite apparent, he created in 1994 his own group, while collaborating with the likes of Kenny Wheeler, Louis Sclavis, Joachim Kuhn, Jorge Pardo, Carlo Actis Dato, Maria Joâo, or Paolo Fresu.
In 2006 he founded the group TRIEZ along with Ramón López and Agustí Fernandez. Their debut at the Parisian Jazz y colours festival was very well-received by French critics: “The total connection between the musicians is obvious from the start of the performance, and the “trialogue” then becomes utterly fascinating”
Baldo Martínez has taken his music to numerous festivals all over the world: Festival de Jazz de San Sebastián, Jazz and More (Sibiu-Romania), EuroJazz (Mexico), Guimaraes Jazz (Portugal), Jazzebre, Nevers, Lyon (France), Köln Trienale, Jazz made in-Munich (Germany), Poland, Tanjazz (Morocco), etc.
His discography comprises over 30 titles; worth mentioning among his current projects are: B. Martínez grupo Projecto Mino, Duet Maite Dono/B. Martínez Sons-Nús, Tri-ez, Duet Carlo Actis Dato/B. Martínez ‘Folklore imaginario’.
Credit picture : Rafael Gavalle
LACALLE 2.0/One singer, 1 or 5 musicians, one video-artist
Urban action
open poetry/music session
a drift in a city + documentary film of the visited places
Some notes about LACALLE project :
Socio-cultural
LACALLE explores the boundaries between our own freedom and other people's, the meaning of public space.
It is an exchange and an action in real time in the present while existing timelessly on the web.
It takes place during normal hours and in ordinary places, we pay a surprise visit to day-to-day life in a city.
It finds neighborhoods and places out of the cultural spotlight.
You become a spontaneous spectator, we are intruders.
We explore your indifference, your happiness and your rejection. We are expectant.
Artistic
LACALLE is an urban action: a drifting session of a performative nature. Text and music are improvised according to the situations that arise : each action is unique.
This is our way of exploring reality, which we document in a serial portrait of each of the cities we have visited.
Our work takes place within real life while taking part in it, it is unstable and fluid.
Global economy
LACALLE flees from the spectacle of museum art, reversing the roles and turning us into spectators of our own life.
There is no script, no order, or previous expense and it does not require a specific place in order to occur.
Ethnological/documentary
Every city we visit is registered in a documentary series on the web
in which the people and their daily customs are reflected, crossed with the product of our intervention in their lives.
Technological
Our investigation allows us to eliminate the stage or other conventional sound infrastructures and move freely through space without having to sacrifice the power necessary to generate the sonic atmospheres we are after.
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