Rafael Toral

Portuguese artist Rafael Toral has created many styles of experimental music, including ambient, free jazz, and modular synthesizer improvisation, all sharing a common factor of spatial exploration. He first became known for producing guitar-based drone music, embracing elements of ambient and minimalism while finding common ground with post-rock and shoegaze on albums such as 1994's Sound Mind Sound Body and 2000's Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance. Beginning in 2003, he drastically shifted his approach and began working with electronic instruments, including modul...