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Rafael Toral plays experimental electronic instruments. Strongly interested in phrasing, he calls his style “post-free jazz electronic music”, described as “a brand of electronic music far more visceral and emotive than that of his cerebral peers”. Toral’s innovative Space Program, while researching performance possibilities, delivers music that is full of clarity, articulating silence and sound in a thoughtful, yet physical way.

Formerly known for his drone/ ambient work with guitar and electronics and records such as “Wave Field” (1994) or “Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance” (2000), in 2003 he terminated that line of works to completely renew his approach to music, launching the Space Program in 2004.
In 2006 he released “Space”, followed by “Space Solo 1” in 2007 and “Space Elements Vol. I” in 2008. Also in 2008 premiered the Space Collective, a slowly developing orchestral group.

Rafael Toral has performed throughout Europe, Canada, USA, South Korea, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

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  • fenderfabulous

    How much money did this guy pay Mike McGonigal to get plugged in the last chapter of his Loveless book?

    6 Aug 2012 Reply

  • Lucky_D

    SERRALVES EM FESTA! > 28-29 MAI 2011, mais de 240 eventos das 8h00 Sáb às 24h00 Dom, 40 horas non-stop > Entrada Gratuita > consulta o programa em www.serralvesemfesta.com | www.last.fm/festival/1910873+SERRALVES+EM+FESTA%21

    27 May 2011 Reply

  • skeletonghost

    Violence of Discovery and the Calm of Acceptance always blows my mind. Timeless bliss.

    24 Feb 2011 Reply

  • gjeldende

    cool live show

    25 Jun 2010 Reply

  • chemical404

    last night I gave Space Elements Vol. II a listen (haven't heard anything by Toral before), and I must say it's much more 'live' then I was expecting, and much more jazzy. Worked great as a background to reading La nausée by Satre. Possibly a discovery of the month for me. Gotta give a few more listens.

    9 Jun 2010 Reply

  • rodanside

    I'd like to see him return to accessibility (Wave Field, Violence), I don't know where he's going on all of his "space" recordings.

    9 Jan 2010 Reply

  • musiky

    vi ontem ele no Museu do Chiado, damn que super originalidade, mto mto bom!

    3 Jul 2009 Reply

  • leplastique

    space program, so far so good

    12 May 2009 Reply

  • Grindfucked

    Violence Of Discovery And Calm Of Acceptance seems to be a masterpiece of sound design.

    3 May 2009 Reply

  • cortina69

    eih este gajo é meu amigo!!! ( PC )

    28 Feb 2009 Reply

  • carol_s

    cool hair

    3 Sep 2008 Reply

  • somnambulance

    this music is the soundtrack to mind-sex

    26 Jul 2006 Reply

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