Image from Rafael Toral's blog at rafaeltoral.net
Melodic without notes, rhythmic without a beat, familiar but strange, meticulous but radically free. From a March 2011 performance at Experimental Internedia Foundation, the Lisbon-based composer/performer Rafael Toral plays his Space Studies, exercises in "post-free jazz electronic music" - riddled with paradox, yet full of clarity and space. The concert celebrates his 1994 appearance at the same downtown music loft.
These programs are prepared for radio and posted online by ARTonAIR.org in partnership with Experimental Intermedia Foundation who have been making high-quality concert recordings for 40 years.