GONÇALO ALMEIDA
Photo by Dawid Laskowski
COMING CONCERTS :
16.08 - Luis Vicente trio @ Parzelle, Dortmund, DE
Luis Vicente : trumpet
Gonçalo Almeida : double bass
Pedro Melo Alves : drums
17.08 - SPINIFEX @ Parzelle, Dortmund, DE
Tobias Klein : alto sax / Bart Maris : trumpet
John Dikeman : tenor sax / Jasper Stadhouders : guitar
Gonçalo Almeida : bass / Philipp Moser : drums
23.08 - JOOKLO DUO with Gonçalo Almeida @ Subsoil, Dusseldorf, De
24.08 - JOOKLO DUO with Gonçalo ALmeida @ Jazzblazzt, Strompoy, NL
Virginia Genta : saxes
David Vanzan : drums
Gonçalo Almeida : double bass
31.08 - Tabula Sonorum Organum @ Zommer Jazz Fiets Tour Festival, Groningen, NL
Gonçalo Almeida : double bass
Bart van Dongen : pipe organ
03.09- Tribute to Vanita Monk @ Worm, Rotterdam, NL
08.09 - Double bass Solo @ TBA
13.09.2024 - Furtado/Dávila/Almeida @ Internationaler Kiosk, Koln, DE
14.09.2024 - Furtado/Dávila/Almeida @ EXPERIMENTALE 2024, Troisdorf, DE
Pacho Dávila - saxes
Gonçalo Almeida - double bass
Vasco Furtado - drums
25-29.09.2024 - 22º Festival Jazz ao Centro - Encontros Internacionais de Coimbra, Pt
27.10 - The Attic @ Seixal Jazz Festival, Seixal, PT
Rodrigo Amado - tenor sax
Gonçalo Almeida - double bass
Onno Govaert - drums
«««««««« ALBATRE »»»»»»»
New Album Tour :
19.10 - Kuba, Jena, De
20.10 - Punctum , Prague, CZ
21.10 - T3, Bratislava, SK
22.10 - Gólya, Budapest, HU
24.10 - RAUW Festival, Rotterdam, NL
27.10 - The Attic @ Belgrade Jazz Festival, Belgrade, SER
Rodrigo Amado - tenor sax
Gonçalo Almeida - double bass
Onno Govaert - drums
15.11 - Luis Vicente trio feat Camila Nebbia @ OUTRA, Barreiro, PT
16.11 - Luis Vicente trio feat Camila Nebbia @ Guimarães Jazz, Guimarães, PT
Luis Vicente : trumpet
Camila Nebbia : tenor sax
Gonçalo Almeida : double bass
Pedro Melo Alves : drums
18.11 »» 14.12
Artistic residency at OSSO, Caldas da Rainha, PT
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.
