NAD SPIRO BIOGRAPHY 2026
Nad Spiro is the enigmatic moniker under which Basque experimentalist Rosa Arruti performs as a solo artist. A key figure and pioneer in the Spanish experimental music, she was involved in legendary projects on the underground counterculture scene of Barcelona, where she lives.
At the turn of the century she launched her project NAD SPIRO, a solo venture exploring rarely visited audio territories where processed guitars and electronics are woven into her personal sound fictions. Her releases can be found on the prestigious Geometrik Records label (Madrid) and European imprints like Farpoint Recordings, Rose Hill Records, Nuova Materia, Sloow Tapes… as well as on exclusive compilations (Contemporary Music Review, The Wire Tapper, Front&Follow, Silent Records USA…).
Active in the international avant-music circuit, she has presented her work both on stage and in sound exhibitions in Europe and America. Rosa was invited by THE WIRE magazine for their 40 Anniversary (2022) and took part in the exhibition “PIONERES [D]’ones” (2023) about Spanish avant-garde women.
Her extensive experience includes partnerships with exceptional artists around the world like My Cat is An Alien, Atsuko Kamura, The Asterism, Kim Cascone or Marcyn Dimiter, as well as visual, performing and spoken-word artists (Sofia Jack, Maria Thereza Alves, MK Ibáñez…).
Arruti’s sonic explorations cover a broad musical spectrum including experimental radio projects (Radiophrenia, Slack City Radio, The Neon Hospice, Dark Outside Fm, Camp Radio…), audio-art pieces (Museo Reina Sofia, IC Varsovia…), sound walks (Miró Museum, Pratt Institute…), live soundtracks (Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests), site specific events (Valparaiso’s Harbour Transmissions, Port de Barcelona +/_Destinations…), urban mutant collage and workshops.
PRESS : LATEST ALBUMS
THE WIRE 500 – The latest project from experimentalist Rosa Arruti is a broadcast from the in-between… The sound registers like the incidental music from some particularly visceral radio thriller, elongated and mutated by some quirk of broadcast… Arruti’s Limbo skirts both the everyday mundane and the overtly religious, presenting a visceral and gaping collection of spaces, each of which yawns with a terrifying expansiveness… Spenser Thomson
FREQ MAGAZINE – … An introspective canvas, its sinistral nature lanced in a vaporous siren of lilting harmonics that leaves an oddly satisfying stain on your psyche. Michael Rodham-Heaps (Limbo Channel LP )
ROCK DE LUX – Rosa Arruti aka Nad Spiro is possibly one of the most relavant artists in the history of experimental music in this country. Antton Iturbe
THE WIRE –… Fiction, memories and emotions melt into a hermetic and trivial, murderous and loving sonic fabric. Antonio Poscic
VITAL: There are faulty electricity lines sparking and buzzing around, and the sense of loneliness and paranoia is made audible. .. . I found all of this most enjoyable and Nad Spiro delivers another strong work. FdW
SPECTRUM CULTURE – “”Pedreres” is meditative and uneasy listening, but it’s also densely layered and pleasingly slow to unfold its patterns and structures, rewarding and often unexpectedly beautiful”. Scott Wilson
THE WIRE – …(she) introduces a guitar style that stutters and chimes, like a fragmented and warped Ennio Morricone soundtrack. But rather than the dry, wide vistas of those cinematic soundscapes, Arruti uses cavernous reverb to sink these sounds deep among the carved out stone: resonating washes of processed guitar extremely evocative. Spenser Tomson
TOUCHING EXTREMES – ” We are left wandering inside the realms of sonorities that would perfectly fit in a lysergically active installation, minus the pills. A conscious observation of the intrinsic possibilities of unusually splintered timbres eventually leads to the osmotic absorption of their very transfiguration”. Massimo Ricci
THE WIRE – “Arruti is responsible for some essential uncanny transmissions and chilly vignetes that certainly fit the hauntological bill. Sirius Signals would in fact be an ideal enhancement to any long, dark, lonesome night of the soul.” J. Stannard
VITAL – “A poetic interpretation of this place, the Royal Cork Yacht Club, where she worked; and as such this is wonderful release, packed in a nice oversized cardboard sleeve. I’d think this is probably Nad Spiro’s most refined work to date.” FdW
NEURAL – “Transmission codes (real or fake) and narrative elements of different origins together create some sensitive and reactive sound landscapes, which are at the same time poetic, unusual and charming, immersed in the nocturnal and ghostly atmosphere of the Irish harbour… Rosa Arruti feels comfortable to play the sounds in this gloomy and mysterious background, driven by unexpected connections and audio materials with subliminal charm. Aurelio Cianciotta
