Artist : Rafael Toral
Title : Space Elements Vol._2
Genre : Avantgarde
Year : 2010
Date : 06/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 08
Label : Staubgold
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 44:06 min
Size : 51,4 MB
Tracklist:
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01.ii.i 02:49
02.ii.ii 08:45
03.ii.iii 06:10
04.ii.iv 04:27
05.ii.v 10:23
06.ii.vi 05:48
07.ii.vii 03:26
08.ii.viii 02:18
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44:06 min
Space Elements Vol. II is the fourth
release in Rafael Toral's ongoing
project, the Space Program. Following
the first "Elements" release, this
volume features a new set of
collaborators: Evan Parker (soprano
sax), Manuel Mota (guitar), Afonso
Sim⌡es (drums), Stefano Tedesco
(vibraphone), Joπo Paulo Feliciano
(rhodes piano), and Ruben Costa (digital
synthesizer), as well as returning
guests Sei Miguel (trumpet), CΘsar
Burago (percussion), Fala Mariam
(trombone), and Rute Praτa (cello).
Space Elements Vol. II displays a
melodic quality that, along with a
refined management of silence, marks a
new area and consolidates the Space
Program's complex network. Its
spaciousness is explained in Toral's
liner notes: "While finding ways to make
decisions on sound emission, it became
evident to me that such sounds should
have a reason to exist, they should be
essential and necessary."
Dan Warburton's writing in the Wire
about Space fits Space Elements Vol. II
perfectly: "The melodic logic that
drives certain instruments within
"Space" also recalls birdsong, with
dense, convoluted runs of twittering
melody ending in single piping notes, as
spontaneous as Messiaen's birdsong
transcriptions were painstaking and
meticulous."
Toral's music is a jazz-inspired
reevaluation of live electronics:
"Despite working in a sound world that
is cosmetically closer to R2D2's
vocabulary than Louis Armstrong's or
John Coltrane's, Toral has claimed a
kinship to jazz because it models
instant music making within a
disciplined framework" (Bill Meyer,
Dusted); "Toral is looking for nothing
less than a totally fresh language to
work in" (The Wire).
Presented in a limited edition of 500
CDs in digipak and as digital download.
http://www.staubgold.de/