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Gonçalo Almeida
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Gonçalo Almeida (Lisbon, 1978) is a Portuguese double bassist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. With a strong interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to his work, Gonçalo plays in a variety of projects that go from modern jazz, free jazz, jazzcore and free improvised music, having shared the stage with improvisers such has Ab Baars, Balasz Pandi, Chris Speed, Carlos Zíngaro, Ig Henneman, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jasper Stadhouders, Jorrit Dijkstra, Luis Vicente, Luis Lopes, Martin van Duynhoven, Nina Hitz, Peter Jacquemyn, Rodrigo Amado, Susana Santos Silva,Tobias Klein, Wilbert de Joode, among others. Devoted to double bass solo, already with five solo albums, and maintaining an active role in presenting himself on concert solo format, he is as well the founder and bass player of Hydra Ensemble, Lama Trio, Albatre, The Attic and member of Spinifex, The Selva , Tabula Sonorum Duo and Luis Vicente trio. Gonçalo Almeida also collaborates frequently with audio-visual artists, modern dancers, poets and theater makers, such as Arnold Dreyblatt, Julyen Hamilton, Rita Vilhena,Rutger Zuydervelt, (aka Machinefabriek), Ricardo Jacinto, Pierre Bastien, among others. Since 2001 has been touring internationally within several of these projects, in Europe, U.S, India and Japan. Adding to a prolific publication of records on international labels from his various projects, Gonçalo Almeida created also his own online label, Cylinder Recordings, in order to document and share material from his frequent and experimental encounters with other improvisers, making crossovers between musicians from different projects and researching on new collaborative paths.
