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The Brooklyn-based, Barcelona-born musician’s debut album is a dense but cohesive statement on duality, equally shaped by Catalan identity and future-leaning cosmic pop.

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Bandcamp / Buy Time and distance collapse in the music of the Catalan folk duo Tarta Relena. With little more than their two voices, Helena Ros and Marta Torrella connect the far corners of the Mediterranean, drawing on traditions stretching back more than a thousand years. Pack Pro Nobis, an expanded edition of two EPs released in 2019 and 2020, gathers songs from Crete, Corsica, Mallorca, Menorca, and Andalucía; the two women sing in Spanish, Catalan, Greek, Latin, English, and even...