Do Claro ao Breu is shaped as an object of contrasts, integrating two antagonistic and independent compositions, as if representing day and night. The A-side, brighter and more luminous, originates from the work the collective carried out with dancer and choreographer José Artur Campos for the soundtrack of the video-dance short Meia de Leite. A composition in which a polyphony of voices, rich in atmospheres and landscapes, enters into dialogue with two poems by Eugénio de Andrade: Falo de um Verão and A uma fonte. A universe of enchanting mists serves as a weave for some of the most recurrent images in Portuguese tradition: hands, fruits, the seasons, the connection to the land, and cycles.

The B-side turns us toward the obscure and nocturnal, spaces where fears and superstitions roam, taking the listener on a journey through sinister and grotesque elements of traditional popular imagination. This composition is the result of a collaboration between Sopa de Pedra and the Porto-based collective Oficina Arara, whose proposal was to set to music texts inspired by now-disappeared or residual popular superstitions—specifically certain prayers, invocations, charms, and blessings cast into the air.