(From left) Tamaghna Mukherjee, Ahona Sen, Aditya Servaia and Pradyumna Singh Manot aka Paddy

But her husba­nd, Paddy, who brought back Afro-Cuban and Afro-Carib­b­ean techniques fr­om his travels in Panama two years ago, was not a part of the band's original line-up. With his additi­on, the outfit can bo­ast of unique arra­n­gements. "In India, ev­e­ryone plays 'Brazilian music', which translates to the Americanised versions of samba and bossa nova, which isn't accurate. But we have studied the roots of the music and play it the way Brazilians do," Paddy tells us. "We don't have access to their instruments like pandero, but we improvise to recreate the same sounds for authenticity. We ta­ke a rhythm like partido alto and break it down," adds Sen, who has been learning the language via an app.

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And how's the new arrangement working out for the couple? "When we got married, we thought we need to give each other enough space so that our relationship is healthy. But we have got more aligned together and spend more time working together," Paddy tells us. "We have a joke — that I must have been Brazilian and Paddy Cuban in our previous lives. That is why we are together in India now and doing this music," concludes Sen, meaning it's a sonic mix that's definitely worth listening to.

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