The São Paulo-based duo Teorias do Chá will release the EP “Live Session – A Casa do Groove” on November 21st on all music streaming platforms via Marã Música. This project revisits familiar tracks in live, intense, and emotionally powerful versions. Featuring seven songs, including the band’s early tracks and the EP “Guarda-Chuva Invisível,” the work presents a new approach that highlights the duo’s current phase: more mature, visceral, and connected to the essence of their compositions.
Recorded entirely live, the EP reveals the raw energy of Teorias do Chá, exploring a sound that moves between indie, psychedelic indie pop, and indie rock, with arrangements that balance delicacy and strength. The covers take on a more rock’n’roll feel, especially in the tracks from “Guarda-Chuva Invisível,” such as “Aqui Não Me Mata,” which carries a message of overcoming and intensity. For the duo, the recording stems from the desire to show the public the truth of the stage, “without filters,” as they themselves define it.
The session was recorded at Casa do Groove and marks a reunion of the duo with their own history. In addition to the EP, the artists are releasing the full music video of the live session, available simultaneously at midnight on the 21st. With an intimate aesthetic, the video highlights every look, gesture, and emotion captured in the studio. For Teorias do Chá, the project is an invitation to reflection and reconnection with what really matters — a work that reaffirms their identity, celebrates the creative process, and invites the audience to feel the power of live sound.
This live session revives songs that are already part of your history. How was it emotionally to revisit older versions of who Teorias do Chá once was, looking now at the more mature band you’ve become?
Each song carries a piece of who we once were—more impulsive, more restless, more innocent—and revisiting them now has given them new meanings. It feels like looking back fondly, understanding that those versions of ourselves also brought us to where we are today. In the live session, we managed to unite the past and the present in a single breath.
You said you wanted to show the duo’s true energy, “without filters.” In a world so edited and full of digital overlays, what does it mean to you to record a work where every breath, silence, and mistake is also part of the artwork?
It means returning to the essence. For us, music isn’t just what you hear, it’s what you feel. And feeling demands truth. Recording the breath, the silence, and even the small “mistakes” is acknowledging that art doesn’t need to be perfect to be profound. This live session is a record of who we are now, without over-polishing, without trying to mask anything. It’s almost like opening our hearts to the listener and saying, “This is how we vibe, you know?”
The EP was born from a desire to reconnect with what truly matters. At what point in your lives did you realize you needed to slow down and look inward?
The realization came gradually, but it became impossible to ignore when we understood that we were living on autopilot, producing, rushing, solving problems, without truly feeling.
Some intense personal experiences of losing loved ones also made us stop and rethink our priorities, and when such situations disrupt our routine, art ends up becoming a space for healing. That’s when we realized we needed to breathe, reconnect, and allow music to once again be a place of encounter, and not just of surrender.
“Aqui Não Me Mata” carries a message of strength and overcoming adversity. Is there a personal episode—or one involving someone close to you—that you feel resonates with the spirit of this song?
Yes. This song was born from real battles we’ve faced and those of the people in our lives that we’ve observed. It speaks of resisting when everything seems too heavy, of finding strength in what still pulsates even when the world seems to crumble. We’ve lived through difficult times, witnessed profound pain, and this inevitably permeated the song. In the end, it became a reminder that what tries to bring us down doesn’t define where we’ll go or how we’ll live our lives.
The press release describes a contrast between delicacy and power, as if the music oscillated between a sigh and a scream. Artistically, do you feel closer to vulnerability or to the impulse to resist? Or do you believe that one cannot exist without the other?
We believe that one cannot exist without the other. Vulnerability opens the door to sincerity, resistance gives voice to what needs to be said. Our music has always walked this middle ground, between those who feel deeply and those who fight intensely. Delicacy and strength coexist within us, often in the same verse, in the same note.
The Groove House isn’t just a studio in this project, it’s almost a character in itself. Did the location influence the final result? Is there something about that space that you feel resonated with you?
Absolutely. Casa do Groove has an embracing energy. It’s a place where everything seems to breathe music, our home, where sound finds space to expand. Being there made us more comfortable, more present, and, above all, more spontaneous. You can feel that the environment itself vibrated along with the walls, the lighting, the atmosphere between the people. All of this helped to bring out the truth we wanted to capture.
When you think about who will listen to the EP, what feeling do you hope to evoke first: identification, courage, relief, companionship…? Is there an emotion you’d like someone to write saying, “Thank you, I felt that”?
We want people to feel accompanied. To feel less alone in their own pain, doubts, and new beginnings. If someone writes “Thank you, I felt welcomed” or “You sang something I was keeping to myself,” that will be enough. Music only truly makes sense when it finds someone—and this EP was made for that purpose, to embrace both pain and love…
What would you say to the original Teorias do Chá band—the one that released the first tracks and didn’t yet imagine they would record this live session, almost as a synthesis of their own history?
We would say: “Calm down. Keep going. Everything you are experiencing now will make sense.
We would also say not to be afraid to change, to mature, and to step away when necessary. It’s all part of the process. And one day, looking back, you’ll understand that every step, even the most uncertain ones, was leading us exactly to where we are today.
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