Luísa Gonçalves - Under Your Breath | Solo Piano Works II (2024)

Portuguese pianist Luísa Gonçalves elaborates on the inscrutable musical connections outlined on her triumphant first collection of solo works for Trem Azul – 2020’s Unno – with another deeply-finessed and delightfully fluid study in construction, style, ideas and expression, sustaining a lifelong dedication to her instrument and the realisation of its innate sound.
While its predecessor established an elusive vernacular informed by Debussy-like restraint and spirited jazz gamble, Under Your Breath underscores Gonçalves’ resolute commitment to her ongoing search via quiet revolution, with subtle cinematic atmospheres and eloquent tonal patterning realised though a broadening of influences and deepening awareness suffused in the piebald tinctures of extra-stimuli: silence, nature, beauty, love and time.
Under Your Breath also represents the exquisite culmination of Gonçalves’ painstaking studies thus far, which have taken her from Santa Cecilia’s Academy of Music and Lisbon’s Metropolitana Music Conservatory to Porto’s ESMAE and the University of Évora, her undeniable technique, poise and precision, honed within these academic halls, now filtered through the liberating autonomies afforded by a decade of bold improvisation and diverse in-concert alliances.
Across eight captivating tracks, Gonçalves inveigles the piano of its inner mysteries, just as author-philosopher Goncalo M. Tavares penetrates the furtive enigmas of language and literature, to unearth a simple inner truth. As Gonçalves locates the beating heart in each bountiful refrain, she takes another step closer, towards the sublime quintessence of her dazzling art.

Tracklist:
1-1 Luísa Gonçalves;Luísa Gonçalves - Under your Breath [3:03]
1-2 Luísa Gonçalves;Luísa Gonçalves - Run [2:27]
1-3 Luísa Gonçalves;Luísa Gonçalves - Seven Out [3:38]
1-4 Luísa Gonçalves;Luísa Gonçalves - Piano Distance [1:59]
1-5 Luísa Gonçalves;Luísa Gonçalves - Get Lost [2:34]
1-6 Luísa Gonçalves;Luísa Gonçalves - Red Moon [3:31]
1-7 Luísa Gonçalves;Luísa Gonçalves - Fall in Love [3:49]
1-8 Luísa Gonçalves;Luísa Gonçalves - Bill Evans [5:09]