In addition to its sound, marked by the group's various music references - from the São Paulo avant-garde movement to the free improvisation, passing through pop and electronic music - Quartabê also stands out for the formation composed mostly of women who, besides instrumentalists are also arrangers, composers, singers and improvisers - which is unusual in Brazil and it has high political relevance in a music scene where positions of creation and power are still held disproportionately by men.
The band started its studies by recording a first album about the work of maestro Moacir Santos , Lição #1: Moacir (2015). After performing this show in Brazil and Europe, the group took a break to record Depê (2017), also dedicated to the oeuvre of Santos. In 2018 Quartabê has begun another project, starting new studies: Lição #2: Dorival, about the great brazilian singer-songwriter Dorival Caymmi, which will be released by the label Natura Musical and RISCO. <br>