At 01:32 PM 11/7/00 -0600, imaninja@xxxxxxxx wrote:
does anyone know anything about rafael toral? from portugal i think.
"...wave shaping/spectral improvement..."
His "Wave Field" on Dexter's Cigar is a gorgeous work of percolating guitar
ambience, perhaps comparable in texture to David Sylvian's work with Robert
Fripp on "Approaching Silence" and in depth and warmth to Brian Eno's "On
Land." "Aeriola Frequency" on Perdition Plastics is a different beast
entirely and perhaps slightly closer to the focus of this list, using
feedback loops to achieve its more delicate filaments of sound, but here
too there is a sense that the static soundscape is very much alive, setting
it apart from colder methodological experiments with similar
techniques. It seems from catalog descriptions that the new "Sound Mind
Sound Body" is in back in the guitar realm, while the little EP on Tomlab
is continuing with feedback, but by all means find "Wave Field" before this
out of print treasure vanishes entirely from the shelves.