Carol Maia & Jeremy Gustin
it's nice to see a lake in your eyes
Carol Maia & Jeremy Gustin’s haunting collaborative album is the result of a long distance partnership during which tracks were traded back and forth across thousands of miles, Jeremy working from his home studio in Brooklyn and Carol from hers in Rio De Janeiro. Later they enlisted support from a number of key players in the Rio scene, Frederico Heliodoro, Paulo Emmery, Ricardo Dias Gomes, and from Brooklyn’s musical community, Will Graefe and Ryan Dugre, to shape this understated masterpiece of sophisticated global pop and quiet experimentalism.
It's hard to describe what Carol, Jeremy and their guests have achieved on 'it's nice to see a lake in your eyes', a kind of pop music that stands outside of time and is neither Brazilian, American or of any other recognisable place. Maybe it's risen out of the lake they imagined into being? Maybe it's formed like rain in the thousands of miles of air between Rio and New York? Whatever happened was certainly alchemical as you will hear.
Carol told me her writing on this record was greatly influenced by her reading of Marcelo Ariel's poetry book "A água veio do sol, disse o breu" so maybe the best thing to do to describe this music is to let you read one of his poems:
A luz do ser é como a água
também veio do Sol
onde todos os planetas querem entrar
Dentro do Sol
O ser é imóvel
como a gratuidade de um êxtase
parecido com a respiração
Fora do Sol
o ser é móvel
Tempo eternidade
e tempo cronológico
(Translation)
The light of being is like water
it also came from the Sun
where all the planets want to enter
Within the Sun
Being is immobile
like the gratuitousness of an ecstasy
similar to breathing
Outside the Sun
Being is mobile
Time eternal
and chronological time
The album is released on 27th March 2026 in a limited edition of 300 copies - black vinyl in a reverse board sleeve.
Jeremy Gustin is an unorthodox drummer, percussionist and songwriter who has toured and recorded with Joan as Policewoman, Iggy Pop, David Byrne, Marc Ribot, Delicate Steve, and Norah Jones. If you follow Hive Mind then you probably know him best from his amazing work on Ricardo Dias Gomes' Muito Sol. Jeremy is also in the experimental pop bands Star Rover and Blurry the Explorer.
Carol Maia is one of Rio's new generation of singers and musicians currently lighting up the city's vibrant music scene. She also featured heavily on Wolfgang Pérez's album Só Ouço, which was released on Hive Mind in 2025.
releases March 27, 2026
Bubbles: Jeremy Gustin: vocals, synth, piano, oboe, drums; Carol Maia: vocals; Frederico Heliodoro: bass, guitar
Aloe: Jeremy: drums, synth, background vocals; Carol: vox; Aaron Roche: trombone
Um Pouco Vivo: Jeremy: drums, synth; Carol: background vocals; Frederico: vox
Um Lugar: Jeremy: drums, synth, piano, recorder; Carol: vox; Chris Kyle: acoustic guitar; Frederico: bass
Side Mirror: Jeremy: drums, synth, piano; Frederico: guitar
Deixa Lá: Jeremy: drums, piano; Carol: vox; Frederico: bass; Paulo Emmery: guitar
Mansidão: Jeremy: drums, synth; Carol: vox; Frederico: guitar, bass; Nora Stanley: sax
As Horas: Jeremy: drums, background vox, synth, piano; Carol: vox; James Haselwood: bass
It’s Nice To See A Lake In Your Eyes: Jeremy: drums, synth, piano, recorder
Vou Ficar: Jeremy: drums, synth; Carol: background vox; Will Graefe: guitar; Ryan Dugre: bass; Ricardo Dias Gomes: vox
Lake of Meaning: Jeremy: drums, acoustic guitar, synth; Carol: background vox; Frederico: bass; Ricardo: vox
Flow Wolf: Jeremy: drums, synth, piano; Carol: vox
Plim: Jeremy: drums, piano, synth, oboe; Carol: vox
All tracks recorded in Brooklyn NY, The Berkshires MA and Rio De Janeiro
Produced by: Jeremy Gustin
Artwork: Noel De Lesseps
Design: Marc Teare