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$12.85

back in stock as of
october 27th, 2008

first in stock on
july 16th, 2007

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cathnor (uk) #cath 004 cd

mimeo “sight” compact disc

sight (60:04)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "sight"

cathnor press release...

cath004
mimeo
sight

released may 2007
cd in oversized digipack

mimeo
gert-jan prins
thomas lehn
kaffe matthews
peter rehberg
jerome noetinger
marcus schmickler
christian fennesz
phil durrant
rafael toral
cor fuhler
keith rowe

sight is the title of the fifth album by the electronic improvisation supergroup mimeo.

sight is a project inspired by stories of the american painter cy twombly that describe how he took up the occasional practice of drawing and painting blindfolded, creating art despite being unable to use the most obvious sense required for the task.

for the sight project each of the eleven members of mimeo spread across europe were asked to place approximately five minutes of sound anywhere they chose onto a blank sixty minute cdr. this was done independently of one another, with no communication between the musicians about how or where the music should be distributed on the disc.

this process was only completed after the musicians had spent considerable time considering the task at hand, trying to understand what their colleagues may be doing. finally in late 2006 the finished cdrs were sent to one group member, marcus schmickler, who then compiled all eleven discs onto one single cdr, superimposing the eleven pieces of music over each other to create a single work. this task was completed without listening to the music at any stage.

the cdr was then later sent to myself at cathnor recordings where it remained unplayed until it was sent to the pressing plant.

$32.91

new to stock as of
october 22nd, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

creative sources (portugal) #cs 100 cd

variable geometry orchestra “stills” triple compact disc set

the morning walk after the “o” of the clock (54:54)
just as you were able to talk about nothing (19:12)
suddenly the dream became a promise of white (44:21)
loosing the place where someone never watched over me (38:59)
we almost turned around and headed home (26:30)

triple-disc set from this large-ensemble-project (naming upwards of 40 participants in the liners including sei miguel, andré gonçalves, rafael toral, etc...) “directed” by creative sources’ ernesto rodrigues...

creative sources press release...

stills | cs100

ernesto rodrigues – conduction (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), viola (1, 2, 3, 5), violin (4)
sílvia freitas – violin (3)
kátia santandreu – viola (3)
guilherme rodrigues – cello (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
miguel pereira – contrabass (3)
sei miguel - pocket trumpet (1, 4, 5)
pedro portugal – trumpet (1, 2)
marcello_maggi – trumpet (1, 3)
jean-marc charmier – trumpet, flugelhorn, euphonium (2)
fala mariam – alto trombone (1, 5)
eduardo lála – trombone (2)
eduardo chagas – trombone (1, 2, 3, 4)
johannes krieger – trumpet (3), french horn (2, 5)
gil gonçalves – tuba (1, 2), euphonium (1)
miguel bernardo – clarinet (1, 2, 3, 4)
bruno parrinha – clarinet (2), alto clarinet (1, 3), alto saxophone (1), harmonica (2)
joão viegas - bass clarinet (1, 3)
jorge lampreia – flute, soprano saxophone (1, 3, 4)
nuno torres - alto saxophone (1, 2, 3, 4)
lizuarte borges - alto saxophone (3)
peter bastiaan - alto saxophone (1), melodica (1), drums (2, 3)
alípio c neto – alto saxophone (2), tenor saxophone (2, 4, 5)
abdul moimême - tenor saxophone (1, 3, 5) electric guitar (4)
ivan fontes – didgeridoo (2, 3)
olympia boule – voice (1, 5)
rodrigo pinheiro – piano (3)
etsuko kimura – electric organ (3)
armando pereira – accordion (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
antónio chaparreiro - electric guitar (1, 2, 3, 5)
nuno rebelo – amplified objects (3)
carlos santos – computer (1, 2, 3, 5)
travassos – tapes, circuit bending (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
joão pinto – computer (1, 2, 3, 5)
nuno moita – sampler (1, 3, 5), turntables (3)
joão silva – field recordings, crackle box, tibetan bell (3)
andré gonçalves – modular analog synthesizer (1, 3)
adriana sá – digital synthesizer (1, 2, 3, 4)
rafael toral – modified mt10 amp (1, 4)
plan – turntables (1)
hernâni faustino - double bass (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
rachiim sahu - double bass (1)
pedro castello-lopes – percussion (1, 3, 5)
jorge oliveira - african percussion (3)
césar burago - cowbell (1, 4, 5)
monsieur trinité - selected objects (2, 3, 4)
josé oliveira – drums (1, 4, 5)

recorded 2006-07, lisbon
© 2007
cover design carlos santos

$13.41

back in stock as of
october 17th, 2008

first in stock on
november 20th, 2007

threads:
guitar-themed
minimalism-drones
modern-composition
electro-acoustic-composition

moikai (usa) #m 07 cd

rafael toral “sound mind sound body” compact disc

aer 4 (16:57)
loopability 1 (2:20)
aer 7 e (25:00)
soft energy 1 (4:00)
ae 1 (14:24)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "aer 4"

moikai reissue of this early rafael toral album; at this stage still very much working with electric guitar as the primary sound-source... i make my love of this era of rafael’s work no secret; of the countless recordings of long-form / “frozen” guitar music made over the past few decades, this is one of my personal favorites ...

moikai press release...

rafael toral's music is guitar based, but doesn't seem to involve any of the usual guitar histrionics. instead he focuses in on the little details, the expansion of the sustained note. sound mind sound body is indeed a sustained note; the music is not dissimilar to fripp and eno's classic extrapolations, to toral's mentor (and former nyc landlord) phil niblock, or to other like-minded drone masters. what is special is its (for lack of a better word) tenderness and hands-off gentleness.

for this reissue, toral has restored some pieces that were edited from the original and remastered the whole bloody thing for maximum drone effect.

$14.96

back in stock as of
june 22nd, 2007

first in stock on
march 30th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
analogue-synth
experimental-instruments
electro-acoustic-composition

quecksilber (germany) #qs 11 cd

rafael toral “space solo 1” compact disc

portable amplifier (21:44)
echo-feed (4:34)
bender (6:05)
electrode oscillator (3:57)
portable amplifier 3 (8:00)

quecksilber press release...

artist: rafael toral
title: space solo 1
format: cd
cat. #: quecksilber 11
release date: 30.03.07

in 2004, rafael toral announced that he was to embark on a long term project, which was to be a multi-facetted work in progress representing his new approach to music. with the release of the first album of the program, the eponymous "space" (staubgold 69 cd), he managed to disrupt the notions of "avantgarde music" even of those who consider themselves well-versed in this field.

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" (though he might re-introduce theguitar at a later stage of the "space program" – but that is what is called "artistic license"...).

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 (take a look at the video samples of the "space study 1" on his website, where he "plays" glove-controlled computer sinewaves). thus, the music is created byindividual decisions in real time – just like in jazz, as toral emphasizes. so basically, this is electronic music played with a jazz sensibility. toral brings a performative aspect to electronic music that it often sorely lacked.

the initial album "space" is like a roadmap. it is a point of departure for recordings in the "space program". it is accompanied by three "diversified" series: the performance series "space studies" (which started in 2004), and the record series "space elements" and "solo series". the latter are unaccompanied real-time solo recordings on oneinstrument only (as opposed to "space elements", where toral collaborates with other musicians). the present cd is the first in that series and the second materialisation of the program.

whereas "space" featured an orchestral approach to composition (and thus a diversity of elements), "space solo 1" presents the listener with music which is narrowed down almost to a point. everything is concentrated on a single element. the key feature of this music is that it was performed with a degree of skill, a commitment and a depth of exploration that could not be found on an orchestral record like "space". on this album, toral appears as a musician who simply plays an instrument on an individual, human and physical level.

one cannot help but notice that toral is opening up a new dimension in music – and maybe also in language. when the renowned british music magazine the wire recently ran a large feature on toral's new project, the last sentence read thus: "it seems that mere words are far from able to convey everything a human being may wish to express." toral's new project is just that: a new mode of expression.

$17.46

new to stock as of
november 7th, 2008

staubgold (germany) #staub 090 cd

rafael toral “space elements vol. 1” compact disc

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "iii"

october 2008 release ; cd version (lp on taiga) of the third title in rafael toral’s contemporary “space program” ...

working here with a full ensemble (margarida garcia, rute praça, david toop, césar burago, and sei miguel), toral’s vocabulary of live-electronic “licks” comes across as much more fully-formed than in previous installments ; his modular-synth eruptions range from swarms of alien squawks to resonance-heavy low-end filter-blobs (listen to the sound-sample) ...

possibly my favorite of the series thusfar !!!

staubgold press release...

rafael toral - "space elements vol. i" cd

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 praça (cello), margarida garcia (electric double-bass), sei miguel’s amazing percussionist césar 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".

$14.96

back in stock as of
january 25th, 2008

first in stock on
september 6th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation

staubgold (germany) #staub 069 cd

rafael toral “space” compact disc

space part i
space part ii
space part iii

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "space part iii"

finally back in stock !!! - although the lovely plastified digipack edition has now been replaced with a slightly more utilitarian jewel-case. still; one of the records-of-the-year for me...

september 2006 release from mr. toral; his first record in quite some time; always a cause for celebration! nary a guitar to found within; but ah, everyone needs to move on every now & then...

here rafael is concerned more with electronics; i’m assuming the lion’s share of the music herein was created in a similar fashion as his recent liveshows... when we shared a bill in lisbon in october 2005, rafael was at that point using a combination of both the battery-powered amps/microphone feedback system and a tiny 4/5-module doepfer mini-modular (out of which he coaxed the most unbelievably rich array of squawks...)

staubgold press release...

rafael toral: modified ms2 pocket amplifier feedback with light-controlled filter / amplified coil spring percussion / gloves and theremin-controlled computer sinewaves / theremin-controlled white noise generator / delayed feedback empty circuit with joywtick-controlled filter modulation / joystick-controlled sawtooth pulse bass resonance / pure and filtered sawtooth oscillator pulses / random pulse width modulation oscillator.
faia mariam: alto trombone.
sei miguel: pocket trumpet

...

"space", the new album by rafael toral, marks a radical change in his music after 15+ years of accomplished work on guitar and electronics. "the future perspectives of my former approach to music were threatening to become a comfortable, formulaic 'modus operandi'. it would be against my nature to accept such a development, so i serenely decided to terminate it."

it took him three years to find his way into a complete renovation of his music: "for a new endeavor i needed new information, and i discovered that the field of knowledge in music that i had most to learn from was jazz. there is a long line of connections and fusions between jazz and electronic music, and i envisioned that a step beyond would not be more jazz with electronics, but on electronics." it may sound exaggerated, but this sounds like the blueprint for a new approach to both jazz and electronics with a single stroke.

in his emerging new conception of electronic music, toral looks to the value of human performance while sharing values from jazz culture. his playing is "articulated with a kind of individual decision, a sense of phrasing and a sensibility to rhythm and form that have little in common with the types of electronic music we know". quoting sei miguel, he says it's "not composed, not improvised, and not a compromise between the two".

in recent years, rafael toral has been developing and performing solo concerts on his instruments (modified or custom-built electronic devices) in a field of work he calls the "space program". he slowly merged hours of live and studio recordings into "space" (the program's first release), which is no less than a full orchestra of such instruments. the result suggests that the expression "space-jazz" was invented before the music it would describe best.

the "space program" is a vast and ambitious undertaking, featuring two parallel series of record releases: "space elements" - centering each volume on a certain instrument, while adding few others and featuring collaborations; and the "solo series" - documenting solo performance on various instruments. the album "space" belongs to none of the series. it is the "space program's" fundamental release.

rafael toral was considered in the 1990s "one of the most gifted and innovative guitarists of the decade" (chicago reader). he has collaborated with jim o'rourke, john zorn, alvin lucier, evan parker, david toop, sonic youth, fennesz and many others, having played across europe and the us, canada and japan. he's a member of the electronic orchestra mimeo, alongside keith rowe and peter rehberg, and continues his long-term work with sei miguel.

$17.27

back in stock as of
january 25th, 2008

first in stock on
june 30th, 2003

threads:
modern-psych
beat-research
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones

staubgold (germany) #staub 039 cd

sun “sun” double compact disc set

make it
reach for the sky
leave it on its own
moon
letter to an old dog
sleepin’
i don’t mind
it’s not real
make it > mapstation
reach for the sky > pluramon
leave it on its own > pimmon
moon > tom recchion
letter to an old dog > rafael toral
sleepin’ > hrvatski
i don’t mind > norbert möslang
it’s not real (reactionary mix) > christoph heeman

2001 full length recorded by chris townsend and oren ambarchi in sydney, originally released on the preservation music label, now reissued as a double cd/lp set with remixes... i sussed it out for pitchforkmedia.com thusly:

the side of oren ambarchi no one gets to hear: his complete & total infatuation with all things brian wilson. no no-wave caterwaul. no coldly calculated guitar-sine throbs. no drones. just good old-fashioned summertime jangly sunshine music. some of this reminds me of low (whispered couplets over near-imperceptable acoustic tone clusters) or maybe even the clientele sans-baggage. i have nothing but respect for oren following through on his various seemingly contradicting musical visions. hearing him lay his boyish tenor bare on record for posterity only makes me like him more. and the songs are quite nice, catchy, hummable, am-radio stuff. lovely.

staubgold press release...

staubgold 39 sun » s/t« 2cd/2lp

"heartfelt melodies and crystalline guitars play throughout throbbing atmospherics. it all makes for soulful listening." (rolling stone australia).

staubgold proudly presents the self-titled debut album from the sydney duo sun, licensed from australia's preservation records for exclusive worldwide release, and accompanied by a complete bonus remix album feat. mixes of all original tracks by artists like hrvatski, mapstation, pluramon, rafael toral, christoph heemann and pimmon.

sun is the unusual pairing of world renowned experimental guitarist oren ambarchi and australian music figurehead chris townend. sun confirms its authors as two truly original music minds, a languid and sweet pop creation, brimming with sly invention in its classicist frame. these songs simply float into the consciousness with a grand air and sublimely delicate touch. there's an easy warmth to sun as well as some darker surprises for added depth and nuance.

$16.01

new to stock as of
october 3rd, 2008

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
analogue-synth
live-electronic
modern-composition

taiga (usa) #taiga 3 lp

rafael toral “space elements vol. i” long playing record

i
ii
iii
iv
iv (continued)
v
vi
vii

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "vi"

september 2008 relase ; the third title in rafael toral’s contemporary “space program” ...

working here with a full ensemble (margarida garcia, rute praça, david toop, césar burago, and sei miguel), toral’s vocabulary of live-electronic “licks” comes across as much more fully-formed than in previous installments ; his modular-synth eruptions range from swarms of alien squawks to resonance-heavy low-end filter-blobs (listen to the sound-sample) ...

possibly my favorite of the series thusfar !!!

taiga press release...

rafael toral "space elements vol. i" lp (taiga 3)

this is the third in rafael toral's space program series of releases -- his long-term research project 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" and performing 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 and the follow-up space solo 1, this is the first volume of the space elements series, each release being focused on one kind of instrument, on small settings and including collaborations. space elements vol. i features rute praça (cello), margarida garcia (electric double-bass), sei miguel's amazing percussionist césar burago, and david toop (flute), besides a short appearance by sei miguel 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.'"

space elements vol. i was mastered direct to metal and pressed on clear 200 gram virgin vinyl in a limited edition of 500 copies. the jacket was designed by helder luís at no type and features a collage by contemporary artist joão paulo feliciano. cd version forthcoming on staubgold.

$15.61

back in stock as of
october 3rd, 2008

first in stock on
april 17th, 2008

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
analogue-synth
experimental-instruments
live-electronic
sound-art

taiga (usa) #taiga 2 lp

rafael toral “space solo 1” long playing record

portable amplifier (21:44)
echo-feed (4:34)
bender (6:05)
electrode oscillator (3:57)
portable amplifier 3 (8:00)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "electrode oscillator"

april 2008 release ; domestic vinyl edition of the 2007 quecksilber cd - the first in rafael toral’s “space program” series in which he’s trying out some new modes for pure electronic improvisation ...

i saw him perform this material live (actually - he headlined the night in which my “recorded in lisbon” was captured doing this set ...) & i must say the meager setup (either two battery-powered tiny guitar amplifiers & contact mics or a small 4-module doepfer analogue synth) produced a pretty raucous range of pointillist squawks & chatter ... very dis-similar to his flowing guitar-based pieces but nonetheless and individualized take on applying jazz-improv methodologies to electronic music ...

lovely high-spec red-vinyl edition c/o the minneapolis-based taiga label ... highly recommended !!!

taiga press release...

rafael toral "space solo 1" lp (taiga 1)

the lp version of the cd released by quecksilber in 2007. presented in a limited edition of 500, mastered direct to metal and pressed on 200g virgin vinyl. the jacket features the rui toscano drawing from the cd version expanded for the 12-inch format printed in black and pantone red on reversed stock with the pocket flooded red.

in 2004, rafael toral announced that he was to embark on a long term project, which was to be a multi-facetted work in progress representing his new approach to music. with the release of the first album of the program, the eponymous "space" (staubgold 69 cd), he managed to disrupt the notions of "avantgarde music" even of those who consider themselves well-versed in this field.

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" (though he might re-introduce theguitar at a later stage of the "space program" – but that is what is called "artistic license"...).

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 (take a look at the video samples of the "space study 1" on his website, where he "plays" glove-controlled computer sinewaves). 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. toral brings a performative aspect to electronic music that it often sorely lacked.

the initial album "space" is like a roadmap. it is a point of departure for recordings in the "space program". it is accompanied by three "diversified" series: the performance series "space studies" (which started in 2004), and the record series "space elements" and "solo series". the latter are unaccompanied real-time solo recordings on one instrument only (as opposed to "space elements", where toral collaborates with other musicians). the present cd is the first in that series and the second materialisation of the program.

whereas "space" featured an orchestral approach to composition (and thus a diversity of elements), "space solo 1" presents the listener with music which is narrowed down almost to a point. everything is concentrated on a single element. the key feature of this music is that it was performed with a degree of skill, a commitment and a depth of exploration that could not be found on an orchestral record like "space". on this album, toral appears as a musician who simply plays an instrument on an individual, human and physical level.

one cannot help but notice that toral is opening up a new dimension in music – and maybe also in language. when the renowned british music magazine the wire recently ran a large feature on toral's new project, the last sentence read thus: "it seems that mere words are far from able to convey everything a human being may wish to express." toral's new project is just that: a new mode of expression.

$20.28

back in stock as of
october 3rd, 2008

first in stock on
january 29th, 2008

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
analogue-synth
experimental-instruments
live-electronic
sound-art

taiga (usa) #taiga 1 lp

rafael toral “space” double long playing record set

part i (13:32)
part ii (24:46)
part iii (19:45)
space study 1.3 (16:50)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "space study 1.3"

december 2007 release; little to my (or anyone else’s for that matter) knowledge; this domestically-produced deluxe gatefold double-vinyl version of rafael toral’s most recent studio album “space” (cd on staubgold) hit the racks of minneapolis-area record shops late last year ...

don’t let this one slip you by ... it’s a beautifully rendered edition, restoring the original “plasticized” artwork in full gatefold spec ... the fourth side contains a live version of one of toral’s “space”-lineage pieces performed by toral & cesar burago ; exclusive to this vinyl edition ...

taiga press release...

rafael toral - space 2xlp (taiga 1)

after over 15 years of drone and ambient work based around guitar and electronics, rafael toral has set off on a radically new mission. leaving the guitar behind, toral has equipped himself with instruments such as a theremin-controlled white noise generator, amplified coil spring percussion, and a random pulse width modulation oscillator. with these he has launched his jazz-fueled craft through earth's atmosphere, into outer space. the resulting voyage is one where the sounds created recall the blast of a ray gun, the gurgle of a velociraptor, the rush of a primordial geyser, all seasoned with a vintage analog appeal and interspersed with meditative moments of silence.

toral's new approach to music, entitled the space program, runs counter to his career thus far by focusing on performance instead of composition. the foundation and fundamental release of the program is space. using live and in-studio performances from 2004 and 2005, toral designed space as "an orchestral environment for electronic instruments." following space, the program will continue to develop with releases from the space solo series, documenting performances of individual instruments played unaccompanied, and the space elements series featuring various collaborators while toral focuses on a single piece of equipment.

with previous releases by toral on such respected labels as touch, table of the elements and ecstatic peace, taiga records is proud to present the deluxe 2xlp version of space. this exciting album by toral is coincidentally taiga's inaugural release as well as that of the space program. originally released on cd by the highly regarded staubgold label, it is presented here in a limited edition of 500 copies on direct-metal mastered 200g virgin vinyl. this version includes all of the original audio from the cd plus a previously unreleased 17-minute vinyl-only bonus track, "space study 1.3," a live duet with percussionist cesar burago. packaged in a gatefold jacket designed by helder luís with spot metallic printing, the album boasts the daniel malhão photograph from the cd version expanded across the entire outside in uv gloss, an essay by toral printed inside on reversed stock and the pockets flooded black.

$13.91

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
september 2nd, 2003

threads:
analogue-synth
experimental-instruments
electro-acoustic-composition

tomlab (germany) #tom 027 cd

rafael toral “electric babyland / lullabies” compact disc

electric babyland - amb
electric babyland - slo
electric babyland - rdm
electric babyland - dne
lullabies - my head on your shoulders feels like home
lullabies - little stars
lullabies - bodyjoya mix pt 12 dreaming into the locked groove

the three lullabies tracks were originally out as a meeuw muzak single, nice to have them on cd. the electric babyland pieces work a tiny music box as the only sound-sources, running the recordings through his doepfer system...

tomlab press release...

sometimes a commissioned work gets a secret life of his own, much stronger than the initial idea, much more surprising, intriguing and overwhelming than we could hope for. and so unexpected for both sides, the artist and the commissioner that the final result reveals just pure marvel, wonder and beauty.

™ can be seen in that aspect. a record that has been tom's dream for many many years time - ever since the "lullabies" 7 inch single came out on the obscure dutch label meeuw musak with 3 wonderful pieces for guitar and musicbox.

in a pragmatic viewpoint, ™ is what has been coming out of the initial idea to extend the original lullabies into a more complete work. first versions of these pieces have been performed during the electric babyland european tour in 2002, revealing a lot of potential from just the live versions. and now, after a lot of studio work the final release of these pieces eventually sees the daylight.

rafael toral is using music box and analog modular system here. but the result is maybe his most beautiful and accessible record since "sound mind sound body". quite an achievement!

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tomlab (germany) #tom 019 cd

rafael toral “early works” compact disc

a
b 2
c
b 1
a viii
sand precision

very early 4-track experiments from the late 80s, with one 1990 piece recorded on 8-track open reel. paving the path for his later guitar work...

tomlab press release...

tomlab is happy to announce a new collaboration with rafael toral! after the previous cd release "cyclorama lift 3" (tom7) we had the opportunity to work with rafael on the release of his very early recordings.

"having completed "violence of discovery and calm of acceptance", i found myself drawing a continuous line going back in time some 15 years. these early pieces are at the other end of that line. at the time of recording them, i was far from dreaming i would ever release records at all. i found them of little value then, but under the light of all my following works, from "sound mind sound body" through "wave field" and "cyclorama lift" to "violence of discovery and calm of acceptance", they stand out as having paved the way for all this music." - rafael toral, december 2001

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tomlab (germany) #tom 007 cd

rafael toral “cyclorama lift 3” compact disc single

cyclorama lift 3 (20’58”)

late 90s toral piece (recorded in 1998 at “noise precision”), issued in its entirety as a cd single. beautiful brain-wave clusters...

tomlab press release...

cyclorama lift 3 is a piece about the idea that electronic resonance is everywhere in our electronically mediated perception of sounds. like a ghost-in-the-machine.

cyclorama lift is a piece about the idea that electronic resonance is everywhere in our electronically mediated perception of sounds. like a ghost-in-the-machine. it's performed with an empty circuit, basically a feedback loop using as main instruments two 8-second delays and a 4-band parametric equalizer. there's no input, the loop is constantly nourishing and digesting itself. the circulating sound is electronic resonance.

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touch (uk) #to:cdr4 cd

rafael toral “engine 03_04_02” compact disc

engine 03_04_02 (37:08)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "engine 03_04_02"

transcription of an achingly gorgeous live set from mr. toral, as recorded in the centre george pompidou back in 2002. my favorite recording of toral’s, mainly for the way in which the composer chooses to derail the linear momentum at various points throughout, making the triumphant ending that much more so. word is that rafael has moved on from his guitar-drone systems, he will be sorely missed... flawless.

touch press release...

touch #to:cdr4
1 track - 37:08
cd in slip case with b/w sticker
photo by heitor alvelos

this is the 4th in the series of live recordings, which commenced with philip jeck's live at icc, tokyo, and s.e.t.i.'s live in brussels. the 3rd was by fennesz, live in melbourne.

"engine" is a piece for two guitars, one bass, twin modulated feedback circuits, motorized strings, analog modular system, routing audio mixer and several other devices. it's performed simultaneously on two channels

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apollo records (netherlands) #acd 090217/18 cd
het apollohuis (netherlands) #acd 090217/18 cd

“het apollohuis 1980-1997 • apollo and marsyas • an anthology of new music concerts” double compact disc set

derek bailey & ernst reijseger - untitled (2:43)
tom johnson - counting languages / seven bells (2:25)
david gibson - johns brook (3:56)
group 180 - the spider's death and epitaph (3:35)
rolf julius - untitled (3:48)
ned rothenberg - untitled (6:33)
elliott sharp - untitled (3:45)
vivenza - untitled (2:45)
pauline oliveros - untitled (4:29)
arnold dreyblatt & orchestra of excited strings - bowing (4:12)
carl stone - untitled (3:55)
carlos santos - untitled (4:28)
joe jones - small orchestra (3:02)
takehisa kosugi - untitled (4:20)
terry fox - untitled (2:55)
walter fähndrich - viola ii (4:18)
fast forward - stix part 1 (4:08)
alvin lucier - sferics (3:45)
alvin curran - songs on one, two, three or more notes (3:18)
richard lerman - human interference fast force (2:34)
jerry hunt - untitled (6:28)
shelley hirsch & david weinstein - parade (4:11)
eliane radigue - jetsun mila (3:50)
the hub - untitled (3:14)
teodoro anzelotti - untitled (4:01)
pierre berthet & brigida romano - untitled (3:11)
warren burt - a post-modern object-oriented chaotic cellular microtonal ... (3:05)
s.e.m. ensemble - waterloo 2 (3:33)
jim o'rourke - untitled (3:29)
borbetomagus - untitled (2:51)
john butcher, phil minton, erhard hirt - untitled (2:58)
iva bittova - untitled (5:32)
stevan kovacs tickmayer - stubborn riffs (5:06)
rafael toral - wave field two (2:50)
david first - zen guilt / zen blame (3:10)
reinier van houdt - ka (3:38)
kaffe matthews - magic violin music (3:30)
matt rogalsky - tudor loops (2:37)

late 90s compilation of recordings made at paul panhuysen & co’s eindhoven het apollohuis artspace between the early 80s & its closure in 1997 ... the tracklisting reads like a veritable who’s who of sound-art and postwar experimental composition, with contributions from such mms perennials as pauline oliveros, arnold dreyblatt, takehisa kosugi, alvin lucier, richard lerman, jerry hunt, eliane radigue, jim o'rourke, rafael toral, et.al ...

something of an overlooked collection, i’d think ...

apollo records press release...

“ this double cd-set is the companion to the final book reporting on the activities of het apollohuis. the recordings on these cds give an idea of the music and the sound art presented in concerts at het appolohuis in the periods from 1980 through 1997. out of a total of 500 performances i chose 38, from which excerpts of varying length have been included in this anthology. these have been arranged in chronological order. the diversity of the selected pieces is characteristic of the programme of het apollohuis. only a limited number of the composers and musicians who performed at het apollohuis can be heard in brief fragments on these discs. " - paul panhuysen

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tomlab (germany) #tom 038 cd

“antologia de música electrónica portuguesa” compact disc

nuno canavarro - alsee (1987) 0' 52"
cândido lima - oceanos - (1978) 5' 53"
nuno rebelo - new amp - (1984) 3' 42"
isabel soveral - anamorphoses i (1994) 5' 19"
filipe pires - homo sapiens (1972) 4' 38"
telectu - performance # (1984) 4' 47"
jorge peixinho - elegia a amílcar cabral (1973) 5' 13"
rafael toral - mills session (introdução) (1997) 2' 22"
joão pedro oliveira - silence to light (1992) 3' 34"
anar band - plasticman (1977) 4' 42"
rené bertholo - áfrica aqui (1996) 1' 46"
carlos zíngaro - #444-07 (1981) 3' 24"
emanuel dimas de melo pimenta - lisbon revisited (1986) 3' 06"
no noise reduction - rlo ii (1995) 3' 32"
antónio ferreira - o verão nasceu da paixão de 1921 (1988) 8' 52"

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "filipe pires - homo sapiens (1972)"

i had been contacted a few years back by the portugese “plancton” label about this compilation when it was still in its planning stages... glad it’s finally seen the light of day via the help of rafael toral and mr. tom steinle.

when in town back in 2004, rafael explained the lack of earlier tape pieces by reminding me that “1972 was a cultural year zero for portugal”. the electronic music that followed over the next 30+ years is a mishmash of every conceivable phylum/belief system ranging from dry academic etudes to home-recorded zonk.

an astouding compilation, and the only collection of portugal’s electronic music history out there. essential.

tomlab press release...

this anthology covers authors and works informed by very different cultural backgrounds, normal as it is to the "inhabitants" of each cultural environment to live in somehow isolated communities. my goal was to weave a historic thread that would freely cross boundaries between the authors' cultural territories and also to document as many approaches to electronic music as possible, both on material and conceptual levels.

it's a work that i approached with both an artistic and personal perspective. that is to say, the anthology is also to be a work on its own, and relations between the pieces represented were determined by musical criteria, rather than chronological or other. i also intended to provide a view into each author in a possibly surprising way, always trying to escape each one's typical image, as well as to subtly evoke a playful dimension in creative processes.

these excerpts were chosen (by plancton music at first and myself later) because of their musical importance and historic relevance (either collective or personal). however, using this approach, the present anthology couldn't and wouldn't pretend to be exhaustive or complete.

rafael toral

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touch (uk) #tone 25 cd

“touch 25” compact disc

bjnilsen - gotland (1:47)
unknown artist - minutiae (0:20)
oren ambarchi - moving violation (8:18)
fennesz - tree (3:21)
unknown artist - quick and cold (0:39)
unknown artist - actual time of arrival (0:29)
chris watson - conversations (2:48)
unknown artist - safely short (0:11)
chris watson - oujela mine (2:24)
mother tongue - rewording (4:04)
peter rehberg - tt1205 (2:53)
tanja orning & hild sofie tafjord - live at blå, oslo (0:36)
pan sonic - slovakian rauta (5:47)
jóhann jóhannsson - tu non mi perderai mai (9:07)
jacob kirkegaard - heavy water (barsebäck) (4:53)
unknown artist - solent rd. (0:55)
ryoji ikeda - untitled #25 (5:41)
rafael toral - glove touch (3:15)
philip jeck - hindquarters (6:10)
unknown artist - atc graph (0:18)
bruce gilbert - sliding off the world (2:02)
mark van hoen - put my trust in you (5:15)
unknown artist - chorale (0:57)
biosphere - spring fever (3:15)
rosy parlane - atlantis (4:03)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "bj nilsen - gotland "

25th anniversary compilation from touch, featuring exclusive material from pretty much the entire active roster.

touch press release...

touch 25
touch # tone 25
release date: 26th june 2006

digipack + 20pp colour booklet

photography & design by jon wozencroft
mastered by denis blackham

touch 25th anniversary edition cd with exclusive tracks from:

oren ambarchi | biosphere | fennesz | bruce gilbert | ryoji ikeda | philip jeck | jóhann jóhannsson | jacob kirkegaard | mother tongue | bjnilsen | pan sonic | rosy parlane | peter rehberg | rafael toral | mark van hoen | chris watson |

there are also several insert recordings and a live edit from hild sofie tafjord & tanja orning
touch was conceived by jon wozencroft in 1981, and released its first cassette magazine 'feature mist' in 1982 [more information on the early cassette releases can be found at www.touchmusic.org.uk/catalogue/first.html].
this compilation was produced initially for the magazine, his voice, to promote new music in the czech and slovak republics. these questions [below] were originally in response to hynek dedecius and pavel klusak at his voice. this completed version of touch25 is now commercially available.

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