Rafael Toral
Space Solo 1

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Part 2 in Toral's series of Space albums. ("Space" was the Wire Magazine's album of the month)
In the past, Toral's work had been based on the guitar and the myriad possibilities of generating sounds from it. More often than not, his music exhibited a tendency towards the concept of the drone. So many people familiar with his oeuvre were surprised to learn that none of those elements figured in "Space" .In the program, Toral focuses on "single sound events". The sounds are generated by self-devised electronic equipment set into action by the performance of gestures, by bodily action . Thus, the music is created by individual decisions in real time - just like in Jazz, as Toral emphasizes. So basically, this is electronic music played with a jazz sensibility.