Versatile percussionist Mauricio Takara and distinctive sound artist Carla Boregas had long been key players in the experimental and underground music scene in São Paulo before relocating to Berlin. The two musicians have performed with each other so frequently that there’s a depth and fluidity that blurs the lines between their roles: Takara’s percussion pushes and pulls rhythmic explorations and Boregas fashions each synth and sample source creating an alluring glow of resonance, ASMR rustling, and warm bass.

As heard on their most recent album Grande Massa D'Agua (Great Body of Water) (2022), the duo explores themes related to water as they dive into uncharted musical depths. Evoking spiritual jazz, tinkered vintage dub, kosmische krautrock, and even leftfield punk, Takara’s fluid, nimble percussion bathes in the atmospheric and idiosyncratic synth work and sound manipulation of Boregas. In the music of Takara and Boregas, both water and sound have the ability to awaken in us different memories and emotional or physical states.