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Rafael Toral

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Nelson Gomes - nelson@filhounico.com

An "ambient icon" in the words of Bandcamp, Rafael Toral is a true gem of the experimental music world. Over the span of his career, he has worked across rock, ambient, contemporary, electronic and free jazz, either as a solo musician, leader, or in collaboration with musicians such as Chris Corsano, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, Christian Marclay and Sonic Youth. In his early years he produced "Wave Field", a pioneering album now regarded as a classic in guitar music. The ambitious Space Program followed, where custom electronic instruments were performed and arranged with meticulous precision. Currently, along the sound of slow motion harmonies over what sounds like an electronic rainforest in Jupiter, Rafael Toral picks up the guitar again to develop a new synthesis between several layers of past and future. His long-anticipated new album “Spectral Evolution” (2024) was Jim O’Rourke's choice to reboot his Moikai label after a 22 year hibernation and has been described as “an absolute towering masterpiece” and “a powerful new synthesis". It’s a wonder of peaceful, microtonal ambient music, where reverberating and long-sustain guitars interweave jazz harmony with electronic sounds in a new expanding universe. Rafael Toral will present “Spectral Evolution” in a special version for live performance in surround.

Listen to Spectral Evolution
Rafael Toral Website
Long Ways (solo guitar)
Milky Ways (excerpt)
- Video
Spectral Evolution @ Semibreve 2021

Long Ways / Milky Ways @ Lisboa Soa 2023

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