a r t i s t : Rafael Toral
t i t l e : Space Elements Vol. 1
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Staubgold
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Dec/2008
t r a c k s : 07
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 45,6 MB
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The Space Program is Rafael Toral's long-term research
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", shaping 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"
(staubgold 69 cd, 2006) and the following "Space Solo 1"
(quecksilber 11 cd, 2007), this is the first volume of the
Space Elements series, each release being focused on one kind
of instruments, on small settings and including
collaborations.
"Space Elements Vol. I" features Rute Praca (cello), Margarida
Garcia (electric double-bass), Sei MiguelÆs amazing
percussionist Cesar Burago, and David Toop (flute), besides a
short appearance by Sei Miguel (pocket trumpet) 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".
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01-I.I [07:23]
02-I.II [05:11]
03-I.III [05:27]
04-I.IV [07:06]
05-I.V [04:49]
06-I.VI [05:16]
07-I.VII [07:54]
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43:06 min