Parra for Cuva — Vulcano Arenal

Parra for Cuva is Nico Demuth, a producer based in Berlin. This 70-minute liveset was filmed at Arenal, a 1,633-metre stratovolcano in northern Costa Rica — active almost continuously from 1968 to 2010, now dormant, still the shape everyone in the region measures the horizon against.

The set ties to “Nacar,” Demuth’s sixth studio album, released May 15, 2026 and out on his own imprint. He built it on the move, in temporary studios across Mexico, Italy, Japan, Costa Rica, Australia, and the US, folding field recordings from those places straight into the tracks. Costa Rica wasn’t just a stopover — he also filmed a solo performance of “Juri” at the Nauyaca waterfalls the same trip. This Arenal set followed shortly after the album dropped, posted to his channel on May 19.

Nacar takes its name from the Spanish word for mother-of-pearl — the album’s throughline is transformation, something raw settling into something layered. The Arenal film plays like the visual companion: one long set, one volcano, the album’s iridescent, unhurried melodic house doing the talking.