Sofía Salvo – baritone saxophone
Megan Jowett – viola
James Banner – double bass
Dae Bryant – drums

TARTARUGA began as a dream project of Megan Jowett and James Banner, imagined at their kitchen table in Berlin.

The four musicians bring very different histories into one room: Sofía Salvo from the free improvisation, noise and DIY scenes of Buenos Aires and Berlin, Dae Bryant from East Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Harlem and the Black American music tradition, Megan Jowett from contemporary and improvised string playing in the UK and Berlin, and James Banner from rock, punk and metal by way of jazz and contemporary music. The music grew out of intensive electroacoustic recomposition of Megan Jowett and James Banner’s duo improvisations as Borage in winter 2025, since reworked collectively, and is inspired by social phenomena, the everyday and the parallels between human and animal life.

Their debut album, Socialisation Class, was recorded at Forsthaus Grünow in July 2026 and will be released on ears&eyes Records in February 2027.