This project—featuring Brazilian-born pianist-composer Henrique Eisenmann—began in a small Brooklyn studio. There, Josh and Henrique improvised for hours, the recordings of which seeded a program showcasing Henrique's omnivorous musical world: transcriptions of Hermeto Pascoal, a tribute to choreographer Pina Bausch, recompositions of Chopin and Messiaen threaded with Malawian and West African grooves, and songs by Milton Nascimento, Pixinguinha, and Robert Schumann.

Henrique’s new Cello Sonata No. 2 unspools across continents, with movements drawing on the Baka tradition of the Ituri Forest, the Afro-Brazilian devotion of Iemanjá, and the spirit-possession dances of Tanzania—filtered through touches of Schubert and Shostakovich.

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