Silence can be the perfect way to sharpen the senses. To let the world in, to allow thoughts to come to the surface. For Lisbon"s Ana Lua Caiano, those empty spaces - when she"s walking or can"t sleep - are when the ideas creep in. They"re her time to create. She takes them and moulds them into the songs that have poured out of her over the last two years. Initially for a couple of EPs (Se Dançar É Só Depois / 2023 & Cheguei Tarde A Ontem / 2022) that made a name for her around Europe and the world, and now on her debut album for Glitterbeat. It"s electronic music. Utterly contemporary. Pulsing, glitchy, atmospheric and beat driven but with roots deep in the traditional Portuguese music her parents listened to when she was a child. "They had a lot of cassettes that they"d play," she recalls. "I loved to mimic and I"d imitate the singers. I took it in by osmosis, I suppose, and the elements are still there in what I do." Since she began her sonic experiments during lockdown, Caiano has been relentlessly pushing the borders of her music. It is of course a process that already began when she first imitated traditional singers or took her first piano lesson. It is a process that"s led her to the road she"s on now, one where tradition and electronics walk side by side. "I think it"s quite experimental," she says, affirming that her music emphasizes the restless and evolutionary. "I believe traditional music evolves with the world - nowadays you can make traditional music with a computer or talk about themes that weren"t relevant or didn"t exist in the past. Traditional music is always evolving." Travelling forward fast and sure, Ana Lua Caiano is definitely not stuck in a square.