From pimmon Sent Tue, Sep 7th 1999, 11:09
At 15:32 6/09/99 -0700, Sean wrote: I emailed Rafael Toral who creates wonderful drone/ambient washes with guitar...his works cover rich dense MBVish landscapes on 'Wave Field', through to the organic lushness of Aeriola Frequency CD (perdition plastics)...this is a beautiful release and I recommend it highly if you enjoy abstract electronics.. a quote from Rafael: "The exploration of resonance from the guitar world as in Wave Field took me to later finding myself working with pure electronic resonance, the material of this piece.[Aeriola Frequency] 'Cyclorama Life' [first track] is performed with an empty circuit, basically a feedback loop using as main instruments two 8-second delays with a 4-band parametric equalizer. There's no input, the loop is constantly nourishing and digesting itself." -- As to the rest of the questions below, here are Rafael's responses... >the mego web site's "events" sections lists the following gig as having >occured in may: > > Christian Fennesz and Peter Rehberg make 2 gigs in Portugal together > with Rafeal Toral, Paulo Feliciano and Nuno Canvarro > >1. did anybody go to this? "Yes, not many people, but a nice little crowd. The first gig was in Vila Nova de Foz Coa, a very small town in the north mountains - in the middle of nowhere, really. It was on an open air amphitheatre that had a huge valley and mountains as background. We used a 1 meter wide white cube with color lights inside which responded to sound dynamics, the whole thing resembled a UFO encounter... Next day was in a club in Lisbon, the sound was not as good and we were tired from the trip, so it wasn't as good, i think." >2. who are the other artists listed? "Just us." >3. does this mean nuno canavarro is still making music? "Unfortunately, in spite of my efforts, Nuno didn't join us. He didn't give up making music, but we can't say he's making any. I'm still trying to bring him "back to life"..." Hope this helps... paul