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Rafael Toral performs Wave Field

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Nelson Gomes - nelson@filhounico.com

After Drag City's recent LP reissue of "Wave Field", Rafael Toral responds to the challenge of revisiting this seminal album of Ambient music that he recorded with the guitar in 1994. Its transformative charachter and expansive crossing of genre boundaries remain intact a quarter of a century later. “I wanted to make an ambient piece that sounded like a thousand rock gigs reverberating from a distant hall,” Rafael Toral explained New York Press in 1998. Wave Field's essence was suddenly revealed as an epiphany, as Toral saw the Buzzcocks opening for Nirvana in 1994. “The acoustics were so bad that all I could hear was an amorphous roar,” Toral recalls, “but as my attention drifted from this otherwise boring set, I began to listen to the unarticulated stream of electric sound and found it extremely interesting. When I walked out of the concert I was dreaming of Wave Field.” Bill Meyer, renowned critic from Chicago, wrote on the liner notes for Wave Field's reissue: "It’s hard to name another record made by anyone else in any decade since the advent of the electric guitar that has so successfully transmuted the rough energy and texture of rock with the immersive embrace of ceaselessly flowing sound.”

Rafael Toral
Wave Filed Remastered on Bandcamp
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Power Field (1995) by Rafael Toral

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