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 01. "I.I" 02. "I.II" 03. "I.III" 04. "I.IV" 05. "I.V" 06. "I.VI" 07. "I.VII"
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| | Description: | Space Elements Vol. 1 by Rafael Toral, released 30 October 2008, includes the following tracks: "I.III", "I.V", "I.VII" and more.
This version of Space Elements Vol. 1 comes as a 1xCD. - This is the third in Rafael Toral's Space Program series of releases - his long-term research project launched in 2004, through which he has unearthed an innovative approach and a complete re-thinking of how electronic music is conceived and experienced. Using custom experimental instruments, Toral performs electronic music concerned with "phrasing and swing" and performing strange melodies with physicality, movement and gesture in flux. The result is something you're unlikely to have heard before, a kind of alien electronic jazz. After the acclaimed, orchestral Space and the follow-up Space Solo 1, this is the first volume of the Space Elements series, each release being focused on one kind of instrument, on small settings and including collaborations. Space Elements Vol. I features Rute Praça (cello), Margarida Garcia (electric double-bass), Sei Miguel's amazing percussionist César Burago, and David Toop (flute), besides a short appearance by Sei Miguel himself. From Toral's liner notes: "Having found that jazz is the field of musical knowledge where disciplined decision-making is most developed, this music is more informed by jazz than by any other. The Space Program emphasizes articulating silence and sound, by structuring musical discourse on experimental instruments with a simple and clear sonic identity. To my surprise, I found no historical precedents to this practice, being that it draws practically no information from electronic music history (which is grounded on different thinking patterns), and it draws very little from jazz history as well, since the instruments I use are inadequate to play any music based on the Western system. I regard this approach to jazz (meaning a system of individual decision-making from the standpoint of free-spectrum live electronics) as a new and exciting field of creative possibilities. I called it 'post-free jazz electronic music.Recorded during 2006 and 2007 at Noise Precision, The Percussion Workshop, João Paulo Feliciano's studio (Lisboa), Dave Hunt studio (London), and live at Tonic (New York), 2004, and Mousonturm (Frankfurt), 2007.
Mixed and Mastered at Noise Precision, Winter 2007.
Typeface: Stella © FTF 200-2006.
Collage: I Dream of Cities in Colours #3 (paper collage, 112 x 74 cm), courtesy of the artist and Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art.
Thanks to: João Paulo Feliciano, Barry Weisblat, Christoph Korn, all the participating musicians and, especially, to Sei Miguel for sharpness and wisdom.
Issued in a Digipak.
[url=http://www.discogs.com/Rafael-Toral-Space-Elements-Vol-I/release/1527555]LP version[/url] on Taiga Records.
? 2008 Staubgold.
© 2008 Rafael Toral.
Made in EU.
| | | Producer: |
Rafael Toral |
| | No. of tracks: |
7 |
| | Manufacturer No.: |
05918842 |
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