The two Berlin-based musicians Alejandra Cárdenas, aka Ale Hop, and Laura Robles grew up houses apart in Lima, Peru, without ever meeting each other. Their work Agua Dulce is a radical deconstruction of the traditional rhythms of the Peruvian coast, with a focus on the cajón, a Peruvian box drum that enslaved peoples made from fruit boxes when Spanish colonizers banned the more familiar foot drum in the 19th century. Robles uses a processed electric cajón to beat out rhythms from dances like Landó, Lamento, and Zamacueca, while Cárdenas fractures the sounds with abstract electronics, splintering the tracks into noisy markers, both harsh and sweet, as the city of Lima. Occasionally, they are joined by dancer and artist Natisa Exocé Kasongo, with a dance style based on improvisation and experimental storytelling.