The members of Unity Quartet hail for different parts of Brazil but have all made New York their home. Pianist Helio Alves and drummer Alex Kautz hailed from Sao Paulo, while guitarist Guilherme Monteiro moved from Rio de Janeiro and bassist Gili Lopes from the southern town of Porto Alegre via London. All of them met through large and active network of Brazilian musicians in New York City, meeting and playing with one another in various projects.

The four musicians came together in 2021 to play original music and select covers in an open, exploratory fashion, melding their roots in 1970s and 1980s Brazilian popular music with their love for jazz. It was at Brooklyn’s Bar LunAtico that the quartet found an incubator for their project, playing the club regularly and developing an esthetic and language all their own.