Rafael Toral – Traveling Light . Rafael Toral [born]: 1967, Portugal (Lisboa / Lisboa) Жанры: Ambient, Electroacoustic, Standards Издатель: Drag City Records (USA) Номер по каталогу: DC948 Дата релиза: 24.10.2025 Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac) Тип рипа: tracks Носитель: web Источник: Deezer . Треклист[00:50:37] 01. Easy Living(09:06)
02. Solitude(08:00)
03. Body and Soul(09:13)
04. You Don't Know What Love Is(08:39)
05. My Funny Valentine(07:12)
06. God Bless the Child(08:30)
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Cue Corrector v. 10.2.3 / b. 2109 (Feb. 07, 2024) ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— --- / Traveling Light Folder: Rafael Toral - 2025 - Traveling Light (web) Audio files: 01. Easy Living.flac [09:05.320; FLAC • 539 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 35.06 MB (36 761 778 B)] 02. Solitude.flac [07:59.920; FLAC • 543 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 31.10 MB (32 606 394 B)] 03. Body and Soul.flac [09:12.747; FLAC • 512 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 33.78 MB (35 425 550 B)] 04. You Don't Know What Love Is.flac [08:38.027; FLAC • 543 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 33.57 MB (35 201 922 B)] 05. My Funny Valentine.flac [07:11.507; FLAC • 501 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 25.79 MB (27 042 952 B)] 06. God Bless the Child.flac [08:29.187; FLAC • 582 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 35.37 MB (37 084 516 B)] Accuracy: -m0 File 01. Easy Living - 100% MPEG [09:05:24] File 02. Solitude - 100% MPEG [07:59:69] File 03. Body and Soul - 99% MPEG [09:12:56] File 04. You Don't Know What Love Is - 91% MPEG [08:38:02] File 05. My Funny Valentine - 100% MPEG [07:11:38] File 06. God Bless the Child - 93% MPEG [08:29:14] ————— Summary: ————— These tracks looks like MPEGs with probability 100%. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ANALYZER: auCDtect: CD records authenticity detector, version 0.8.2 Copyright (c) 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved. Time elapsed: 1 m 23 s Log created at November 22, 2025 09:55:38 === C471E1D63D7FB4596266595DE38FE0027FF1BF4FC9E01E89F70C455E4C77AAFE ===
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Cue Corrector v. 10.2.3 / b. 2109 (Feb. 07, 2024) log date: 2025-11-22 09:54:09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Traveling Light Year : 2025 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR7 -0.30 dB -9.99 dB 9:05 01 - Easy Living / Rafael Toral DR7 -0.30 dB -9.45 dB 8:00 02 - Solitude / Rafael Toral DR9 -0.30 dB -11.47 dB 9:13 03 - Body and Soul / Rafael Toral DR7 -0.29 dB -9.78 dB 8:38 04 - You Don't Know What Love Is / Rafael Toral DR8 -0.30 dB -10.70 dB 7:12 05 - My Funny Valentine / Rafael Toral DR7 -0.30 dB -10.35 dB 8:29 06 - God Bless the Child / Rafael Toral -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks : 6 Official DR Value: DR8 Samplerate : 44100 Hz Channels : 2 Bits per sample : 16 Average bitrate : 537 kbps Codec : FLAC ================================================================================
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From out of the dark, the crackle of feed back birdsong signals a return to the land of sound environments exclusive to the music of Rafael Toral. A year and a half after his epochal electric guitar album, "Spectral Evolution", "Traveling Light" finds him sharpening his focus, moving boldly from abstract forms to concrete compositions in the form of a set of jazz standards. Based on Toral's discography, this may seem an unlikely endeavor, but happily, Traveling Light transpires to be one of the major accomplishments in his long history, expressing these songs on their own terms through the unique listening lens of his music. It’s nearly a century since the innovation that electrified the guitar, almost a century since the era of songs like 'Easy Living' and 'Body and Soul'. Since then, guitars and songs have been played hundreds of different ways by thousands of diverse individuals. After a century of progress, they probably should sound like something else again! And they do, as Toral sidesteps the traditional logic of how to play a song, moving outside the framework with which one would expect a standard to be treated. Three decades ago, in the early years of his practice, Toral used the guitar as a generator, to create discreet texture and droning tones. Later, he abandoned the guitar entirely, focusing on self-made electronics to render his music, and the silence from which it came, with a post-free jazz perspective. For the music of "Spectral Evolution" and "Traveling Light", Toral has combined his methodologies, radically expanding the space within their harmonies with his self-made machines, while engaging directly with his instrument and the chords of the material. The result is a listening experience of these standards, that remains "in the tradition", even as the elongated harmonies seem to alter time such that, as Toral notes, "the chords become events on their own". At points, the long tones animate the sacred ennui of liturgic music, the choir or the organ standing in for silent contemplation while rumbling the ground beneath our feet. Another echo of the concentric circling of music in time... Further time-loops emerge throughout the duration of "Traveling Light". The simple, organic quality of these reshaped songs and sounds, arranged by Toral for guitar with sine waves, feedback and bass guitar forms a proxy orchestra of sorts! One of Toral's self-made devices incorporates a theremin — another near-century old innovation in electronics conceived for use in classical music — to modulate feedback melodies here. Meanwhile, this altered space is visited by canonical jazz sounds on four tracks, as clarinetist José Bruno Parrinha, tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, flügelhorn player Yaw Tembe and flautist Clara Saleiro each guest on one song. In this new landscape, history and tradition are exemplified, like a toast to Earth cultures made on the alien terrain of Mars. In every contour of "Traveling Light's" path — arrangement, improvisation and production — the spring of the old pours through the new in an unstoppable flow. This is the sound of life, a nexus point for the music of the last century and the music ever unfurling toward the far horizons of the next century.
