TORAL, Rafael - Spectral Evolution - Vinyl (LP)
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Rafael TORAL

Spectral Evolution

Moikai

LP Cat: M 14
Rel: 26 Feb 24
Ambient/Drone Side 1 - Track 1. Intro Side 1 - Track 2. Changes Side 1 - Track 3. Descending Side 1 - Track 4. First Short Space Side 1 - Track 5. Take The Train Side 1 - Track 6. First Long Space (edit) Side 2 - Track 1. Fifths Twice Side 2 - Track 2. Second Long Space Side 2 - Track 3. Your Goodbye Side 2 - Track 4. Second Short Space Side 2 - Track 5. Ascending Side 2 - Track 6. Changes Reprise

After a two-decade interlude, Jim O'Rourke's Moikai returns with Spectral Evolution, a major new work by Rafael Toral. Making his name in the mid-1990s with influential guitar drone platters like Sound Mind Sound Body and Wave Field (both reissued by Drag City in recent years), Toral has never been one to rest on his laurels repeating past glories. In the early years of the 21st century, Toral began his "Space Program", a 13 year investigation of the performance possibilities of an ever-expanding set of custom electronic instruments, played with a fluid phrasing and rhythmic flexibility inspired by jazz. Dedicated to honing his skills on these idiosyncratic instruments, Toral founded his Space Quartet, where his mini-amplifier feedback integrates seamlessly into the frontline of a classic post-free jazz quartet rounded out with saxophone, double bass, and drums. Since 2017, Toral's work has been entering a new phase, often still centred around the arsenal of self-built instruments developed in the Space Program, but with a renewed interest in the long tones and almost static textures of his earlier work; he has also, after more than a decade, returned to the electric guitar. Spectral Evolution is undoubtedly Toral's most sophisticated work to date, bringing together seemingly incompatible threads from his entire career into a powerful new synthesis, both wildly experimental and emotionally affecting.


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