Re: [microsound] rafael toral

[will soderberg <wsoderberg@xxxxxxxx>]

just a note- sound mind sound body is a reissue of an older record...i think
it predates wave field...
~ws

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From: "Joshua Maremont" <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [microsound] rafael toral


> 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.
>
> np - Bjork "Selmasongs"
>
> joshua maremont / thermal - mailto:thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> boxman studies label - http://www.boxmanstudies.com/
>
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