the press info stated -
the blueprint for a new approach to both jazz and electronics with a single stroke
it's not jazz...it's just...damn, it's just you wish he'd never let his label state such nonsense. it's hard to listen to things, especially when the guy was always good, when he's letting people talk his work up to a degree that he will never reach. that's not a diss to him, but seriously - how many people are really creating new approaches to jazz these days? not many i'd wager, and certainly not Mr Toral with this release.
I hasten to add, it's by no means terrible. It's not blowing me away, nor making me that excited to give it a repeated listen (which i am as we speak) but it's not terrible.
-d
On 9/28/06, David Geraghty <dbgeraghty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I missed that. I had no idea he went off into jazzbo-land. If that's the
You'd be surprised someone who had heard the record decided it sounded like someone else? He did have a unique voice in his work but since leaving the guitar and supposedly moving forth to create a new language of jazz or whatever he called it he sounds like he's out of ideas.
-d
Rudy Carrera wrote: >> >> >> On Sep 28, 2006, at 3:38 AM, David Geraghty wrote: >> >> > parts sound like a poor imitation of >> > oren ambarchi >> > Rafael tends to have a pretty unique voice in his work. I'd be > surprised if > this comparison were true. Too bad, if that's the case, because > otherwise, > he's quite brilliant. >
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case, I need to listen and see if he's drifting off into fusion hell. Last
person to pull that off well was Paul Schutze, in my opinion.
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