INSTRUMENTALS

As the title promises you, this record is a compilation of compositions for conventional,
acoustic, musical instruments. And yes, it is electronic music – more exactly, there’s a laptop
computer digesting a series of personal plugins (some sound like if there’s modular
synthesizers being used, but you shouldn’t be surprised, André Gonçalves is the builder of the
ADDAC synths). So, here you have: a contradiction of terms. If it gets you confused and
makes you babble “no way”, to the Portuguese sound artist and engineer that paradox was the
embraced creative challenge: to play instrumental music with custom-built software. The
results are completely different from previous works by Gonçalves (compare it, for instance,
with “Currents & Riptides” also released by Shhpuma) and this circumstance also comes from
his natural predisposition to always cover new grounds only with the simple purpose to follow
the flow and discover where it gets you. That’s why every piece is so fresh, so positively
“innocent” and so astonishing, the theory comes after the praxis and it’s up to you, listener, to
develop it.