GONÇALO ALMEIDA
Photo by Dawid Laskowski
COMING CONCERTS :
2025
28.08 - DOUBLE BASS SOLO @ INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN Festival, Vlieland, NL
07.09 »» 16.09
SOLO residency @ OSSO, S. Gregório, PT
26.09 - SPINIFEX @ Stockwerk Festival, Graz, A
Tobias Klein : alto sax
Bart Maris : trumpet
John Dikeman : tenor
Jasper Stadhouders : guitar
Gonçalo Almeida : bass
Philipp Moser : drums
27.09 - ROTTERDAM KINEMATIC ENSEMBLE @ Camera Japan/Lantaren Venster, Rotterdam, NL
Darina Zurková – piano
Nina Hitz – cello
Gonçalo Almeida – double bass
Robert Kroos – electronics
Phillip Ernsting – percussion
03/04.10 - LAVA Quartet @ Spontaneous Music festival, Poznan, PL
Almut Kühne - voice
Jordina Millà - piano
Gonçalo Almeida - bass
Wieland Möller - drums, percussion, gongs
»»» ROJI TOUR »»»
07.10- 16.10
TBA
Gonçalo Almeida - bass
Jörg Schneider - drums
João Almeida - trumpet
18.10 - Tabula Sonorum Organum @ Orgel Park, Amsterdam, NL
Bart van Dongen - pipe organ
Gonçalo Almeida - double bass
10.11»»18.11
RESIDENCY @ OSSO, S. Gregório, PT
Gonçalo Almeida & Ricardo Jacinto
19.11 - Luis Vicente Trio @ Teatro Municipal de Bragança, PT
Luis Vicente - trumpet & compositions
Gonçalo Almeida - double bass
Pedro Melo Alves - drums
SPINIFEX MAXXIMUS
27.11 - Parzelle, Dortmund, DE
28.11 - Lantaren Venster, DE
29.11 - HotHouse, Leiden, NL
03.12 - JIN, Nijmegen, NL
06.12 - Plusetage, Baarle-Nassau, NL
Jessica Pavone : viola
Elisabeth Coudoux : cello
Evi Filippou : vibraphone
Tobias Klein : alto sax & bass clarinet
Bart Maris : trumpet
John Dikeman : tenor & bass saxophone
Jasper Stadhouders : guitar
Gonçalo Almeida : double bass
Philipp Moser : drums
GONÇALO ALMEIDA - STATES OF RESTRAINT
(clean feed 2024)
Gonçalo Almeida - double bass, electronics & compositions
Susana Santos Silva - trumpet
Gustavo Costa - percussion
All music by Gonçalo Almeida
Recorded on 21 July 2023 at Sonoscopia, Porto by Gustavo Costa.
Mixed by Gonçalo Almeida. Mastered by Gustavo Costa.
Produced by Gonçalo Almeida | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos | Photos by Pedro dos Reis
States of Restraint, bassist and composer Gonçalo Almeida delivers a set of remarkable minimalist tone poems distinguished by their brooding crawl-time intensity and austere meditative aesthetics.
Accompanied by trumpeter Susana Santos Silva and percussionist Gustavo Costa, Almeida meticulously maps the coordinates of five tension-fuelled abstracts which, taken together, comprise a mesmeric form of temporal liturgy, delineated through standard notation and graphic scores, animated via splendidly spartan increments of surge, drone and ceremonial carillon.
Silva has been a constant in Almeida’s LAMA trio, while she also guests on 2021’s Suicide Underground Orchid by Almeida and Costa’s incendiary metal-charged jazzcore unit, Ikizukuri. But whereas these previous ventures are often characterised by frenetic jump-cuts, scattergun squalls and wild improvisational jousts, States of Restraint emphasises more temperate aspects of control, discipline, nuance and poise.
Recorded last summer at Sonoscopia – the unique Porto-based hub championing experimental music and sound art under Costa’s directorship – States of Restraint negotiates an assiduously sensitive strain of brinksmanship, continually teetering on the cusp of total erasure, teasing intimations of a blissful eternity. Under the expert stewardship of Almeida’s trio, patience is pushed here beyond its simple virtuousness, becoming the creative fulcrum for a set of thrillingly singular entrancements, basking in the variegated latency of its laser-focused sublime. Spencer Grady
CICLOS
Gonçalo Almeida - Double Bass Solo
(Cylinder Recordings 2023)
CICLOS is an acoustic double bass solo that focuses on exploring lengthy structures and the slow development of concepts, pondering on the nature of time, structure and control.
Improvisations on Amplified and Prepared Double Bass
(Shhpuma 2022)
Solo improvisations that involve the interaction of feedback and distortion between the resonant body of the double bass and the amplifier, along with several preparations and extended techniques.
