"Eventual" is the first album by double bass player Gonçalo Almeida and "knob twidler" Rutger Zuydervelt. It"s not exactly their first collaboration though, having released two EPs, "Doze Ruinas" and "Jangadas", and being colleagues in Hydra Ensemble (with cellists Lucija Gregov and Nina Hitz). When film maker Lex Reitsma commissioned Rutger Zuydervelt for the soundtrack of his documentary about photographer Koos Breukel, Zuydervelt proposed to involve Gonçalo Almeida. Reitsma agreed and visited Almeida to record a selection of double bass improvisations. The plan was for Zuydervelt to weave these recordings into the score, but in the end not much of it was used. Both Almeida and Zuydervelt felt that the wealth of recorded material was too beautiful ... mehr lesen