NEW ONLINE RELEASE - Space Collectives
Space Collectives, the newest Noise Precision Library release, is NOW ONLINE!
The first files on the album are a full LIVE recording of Space Collective 2, a duo with Afonso Simões, one of the busiest free-thinking drummers in Lisbon, in January 2009 (it's now the most recent recording available).
Subscribe the Noise Precision Library and download this and much more!
Introducing - the NOISE PRECISION LIBRARY
The Noise Precision Library store offers previously unreleased or rare Rafael Toral recordings, organized as mp3 Albums. Right now there are EIGHT albums available, from early live pieces to noisier explorations, from improvised guitar sessions to the latest Space Program advances. But there's much more to come!
Subscribers may freely download for a year.
The store also offers the complete Rafael Toral discography as newly 24-bit remastered high-quality mp3 files. As you navigate, you'll also find some FREE download tracks.
2009 US Tour diary
Here is the tour diary... thanks a lot to everyone involved in it, it would have been quite hard (and no fun) without you!
EMPAC performance review
An excellent review of the EMPAC performance on May 8 in Troy, NY, appeared on the Metroland newspaper and posted on the blog, here:
No Fun Festival (2009) Photos
There's plenty of photos of No Fun at Flickr, here is a slideshow compilation:
circa 1999, newly discovered tape
Newly discovered circa 1999 guitar session recorded for Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance. An extremely rare recording of an intact studio performance take. Available as part of the Studio Tapes Vol. 1 album.
New Website!
After a long wait, here's the new website, packed with new funcions and features, like:
- Website search engine
- RSS feeds
- Subscribers can download massive amounts of unreleased "tapes"
- New online store, with high quality, 24-bit remastered mp3 files.
- Audio players
- Embedded Space Program performance videos and photo slideshows
- Blog and many interactive features, including comments on many topics
- Networked with MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Last.fm, Linkedin and Flickr.
- And more...
Ringtones
Space Program ringtones now available, free!
Dan Warburton reviews Space Elements Vol. I
New review on Paris Transatlantic by Dan Warburton:
"This is the third episode of Rafael Toral's projected epic Space Program, after 2006's Space (Staubgold) and last year's Space Solo 1 (Quecksilber), and it's the best yet. (...) There's an economy and clarity of line to his own playing that connects him to a long line of less-is-more jazz musicians, from Frankie Trumbauer to Bill Dixon, via Lester Young, Jimmy Giuffre and Chet Baker."
Space Collective 2 NEW VIDEO
New SC2 video now online at YouTube, recorded at O Século, November 2002.
SPACE ELEMENTS VOL. I
LP and CD now available !
TAIGA 3 (200g transparent vinyl LP)
Staubgold 90 (digipak CD)
Featuring Rute Praça (cello), César Burago (percussion), David Toop (flute), Margarida Garcia (electric doublebass) and a special appearance by Sei Miguel (pocket trumpet) and Fala Mariam (alto trombone).
The 200g vinyl LP is available from TAIGA Records since September 15. It's distributed by Forced Exposure. In Portugal, it can be found at Trem Azul, Materia Prima and Flur. The CD is out on Staubgold with worldwide distribution.
There's a preview track at Taiga's MySpace!
And another one here.
Space Collective 5
The Space Collective's premiere is October 18 in Lisbon, ZDB Gallery at 23:00 sharp.
The first formation is a quintet (Space Collective 5) and features Rute Praça (cello), Ruben Costa (digital synthesizer), César Burago (percussion), João Paulo Feliciano (Rhodes piano) and Rafael Toral (empty resonance circuit, modular synthesizer, modified MT-10 amplifier).
YouTube channel
There's a new Rafael Toral YouTube Channel!
2008 Tour
The June/ July 2008 PACIFIC TOUR through South Korea, Japan, New Zealand and Australia was a success, i can't thank enough to everyone involved!
The TOUR DIARY is now online, here.
Space Study 6
Space Study 6 is the newest live piece in the Program, to be premiered at Musica Genera in Poland and performed in the tour. It's on electrode oscillator with modular filter system and analog delay and sounds like...
VPRO session now available
VPRO session in Amsterdam (including sets on both Modified MS-2 and MT-10 amplifiers) available here
