15 15 map a mythical island on Mārara. Where flying fish, future r&b and ritual rhythms meet
Some albums try to take you somewhere. 15 15’s new record MĀRARA doesn’t just suggest a destination — it hands you a boarding pass, a coconut drink and politely points you toward an island that may or may not exist on any official map.
Released today via S76 Records, MĀRARA — meaning “flying fish” — unfolds like a musical travelogue to a little-known Polynesian island imagined by the Paris-based collective. While Tahiti tends to hog the postcard spotlight, this project shines its lantern somewhere else entirely: a place shaped by geography, climate, traditions and the quietly humming mythology of the island itself.
The result is less a traditional album and more of a cultural immersion. One where songs drift in like warm evening tides, carrying fragments of folklore, rituals and half-whispered legends.
Musically, 15 15 weave together a curious and compelling blend: smooth R&B textures, futuristic electronic explorations and flashes of dancehall-leaning rhythm. It’s a mix that shouldn’t necessarily work on paper, yet here it flows naturally.
And much like the flying fish the album is named after, these tracks seem to glide just above the surface. Synths shimmer. Percussion pulses like distant ceremonial drums. Vocals drift between intimacy and incantation, as if each song is both story and spell.
But MĀRARA isn’t just about sound — it’s about world-building. The band construct a sonic language that feels entirely their own, tied to invented rituals and imagined traditions. The island becomes both symbol and stage, a place where memory, myth and future-facing production all coexist.
At times the record feels like it’s been holding its breath, quietly searching through the dark ocean for land. When it finally surfaces, what emerges is this island. Vibrant, mysterious and strangely welcoming.
A flying fish.
A symbol.
An island.
An album.
And now that it’s here, 15 15 invite listeners to step ashore.
Ia ora na.
Welcome to Mārara.
“Mārara” out now on S76 Records.
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‘Ava dans la passe
Houleux dans la tasse
Take off late
Je heke dans la vague
Bouffe comme d'hab
J'entends des zoizo dans le vāvā
Fa’aio la sono dans le va'a
Les basses sont lourdes comme des tūtau
Les aigus aiguisés comme couteaux
J’connais les coups tout les kata
Tā’ie balade sur le cata
Pendant la pluie ya le beau temps
Tahuri huri les pōito
Mārara Island ma maison
J’arrive là-bas comme une saison
Pia frappée dans la glacière
Fa'ahe'e sur le sunset
y’a des saplins à tātahi
on entend plus que les basses
euy zin shoot ei le glouglou
manque plus que des glaçons
Pā’oti, pā’oti
sur le maoti, maoti e
a na là la set bro ua kati
a na la set
les mata sont fatigués
comme si j’avais pa’apa’a le matie
les waves sont de plus en plus fātī
de plus en plus fat
Jeter le tūtau
tāora le uto
et je veux
tout tout tout
Too too too
late le take off
récif me piquent
mon esprit me quitte
Haru la mouche
shoot sur le mata
et je vois tout tout tout
Tout tout tout
dans le pō, dans le ao
pāinu sur le a’au
‘Ori mārara
tous les ta’ata
Et tu cris souloulou
Souloulou
je suis sous l’eau, saoulé
je vais pas tarder à couler
Poti mārara
Qui passent à côté
qui cassent tout tout tout
Sous l’eau ça fait long time
que j’ai pas vu zoizo dans le sky
silence radio quand je suis dans le scan
mata fefe quand je suis dans le kin
me long time
hold me, kiss me, love me long time
le uto se répand dans mes entrailles
Ta’a le mārara dans le ra’i
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