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TORAL, RAFAEL - Sound Mind Sound Body

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Moikai M7CD Release Year: 1999 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info „Endlich da, die frühe (erste?) TORAL CD auf dem er eindrucksvolle Guitardrones & ungewöhnliches Gitarrenspiel verewigt hat. Early TORAL CD that appeared originally on the Portugesian label AnAnAnA in 1994, this is the re-release on the Chicago-based label MOIKAI.” [old Drone info] "Rafael Toral's music is guitar based, but doesn't seem to involve any of the usual guitar histrionics. Instead he focuses in on the little details, the expansion of the sustained note. Sound Mind Sound Body is indeed a sustained note; the music is not dissimilar to Fripp and Eno's classic extrapolations, to Toral's mentor (and former NYC landlord) Phil Niblock, or to other like-minded drone masters. What is special is its (for lack of a better word) tenderness and hands-off gentleness. For this reissue, Toral has restored some pieces that were edited from the original and remastered the whole bloody thing for maximum drone effect." [label info]