27th August 2025
ZDB presents Rafael Toral
Another tradition at L Concerts, one night each year is hosted by the renowned Galeria Zé dos Bois in Lisbon. Rafael Toral belongs to a generation of artists who emerged onto the global experimental music scene during the 1990s, pioneering a new form of electronic music equally informed by rock, jazz, ambient, and minimalism.
It was these artists who deserve much of the credit for reinvigorating the field of experimental music. Of this new emerging generation, Toral was unquestionably among the most influential, with incredibly visionary albums that combined guitar and electronics to produce atmospheric planes and long tones, representing a new phase in minimal music that would be followed by countless artists in his wake in the years to come.
Over the past seven years, Toral's work has entered a new phase; a hybrid that utilizes the handcrafted instruments developed in the "Space Program." The product of three years of experimentation and recording, and arguably the total distillation of over thirty years of musical research, Spectral Evolution is quite possibly Rafael Toral's most impactful and accomplished album to date.
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