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Space Quartet

by Rafael Toral

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1.
Lisboa I 18:06
2.
Porto 09:18
3.
Coimbra 11:12
4.
Lisboa II 09:36

about

After the conclusion of the 13-year-long Space Program series, Space Quartet marks a new horizon in Rafael Toral’s ongoing music explorations. Referring both to a record and a band configuration, Space Quartet embodies a maturing moment for the Portuguese musician. As one of the most internationally-recognized figures in the leftfield domains of music, Toral describes the album as “an advanced application of the Space Program principles”: electronic music with a human touch.

Over the years, Toral developed a jazz-like phrasing using abstract electronics. Operating within the context of a typical quartet, Space Quartet features the interplay of two electronic voices, one played by himself, on melodic feedbacks and hacked amplifiers, and one by Ricardo Webbens, on modular synthesizer and other custom stuff; rounding out the quartet is the versatile Hugo Antunes on double bass and the inventive drums of João Pais Filipe, who also plays gongs and bells of his own making.

The electronics are the driving core of the ambitious Space Quartet, setting it apart from many examples of electronics in jazz. Inspired by some of the principles and methods of enigmatic master Sei Miguel, the music develops solely according to the musicians’ free decisions. The result is a sense of flux and ever-renewing forward motion, continuously unfolding into new places, through spirit and matter from jazz-rock to ambient music and “the singing of standards from another planet” (Toral dixit). One thing is for sure: you’ve never heard anything like this before.

Clean Feed Press release

credits

released May 18, 2018

Hugo Antunes: double bass.
João Pais Filipe: drums and percussion.
Ricardo Webbens: modular and network synthesizers (R).
Rafael Toral: modular feedback circuit, modified MS­2 (feedback) and MT­10 (bending) amplifiers (L), direction.

Recorded by Noise Precision Mobile, at Estúdio 15A, Lisboa (1, 4), Sonoscopia, Porto (2), and Salão Brazil, Coimbra (3), November 2017.
Mixed and mastered at Noise Precision Regada.
Art and design by João Paulo Feliciano.


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Rafael Toral, born in Lisbon, has been bouncing between the music within sounds and the sounds beyond music since he was a teenager.

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