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Label | Noise Precision Library
Rafael Toral does not need any presentations but Rafael Toral with Tatsuya Nakatani and John Edwards and their “Live in Lisbon” record deserves not a presentation but a highlight in the sound library of any of us.
The album "Live in Lisbon" was recorded in 2009. It is the result of three concerts together (one in Lisbon and two in Cascais). And what a result! Exceptional, pervasive and that takes me to other places despite I’m sitting comfortably on my couch.
Long and full of sound refinements. No desire to rush into audition. It takes time.
For those who complain as much as I do about the lack of time, this is an album that makes us live the time in a different way. No running, no listening for listening, no rush to go somewhere. It is for me a record with no defined time.
But if you need to know how much time you should have to hear it, here it goes. You need, at least, two hours. But if you really want to listen it in a proper way you must listen it an infinite number of times. I advise you to listen to it often. Why? Because it deserves! Because it is so good that it deserves that we stop the frenzy and let ourselves be carried between notes and environments. Between tensions and imbalances.
Tatsuya Nakatani is amazing and intense. It is brief and long. It is sound and silence. Of course John Edwards' double bass is perfect in this trio.
Rafael Toral's electronics fills our space and sometimes transport us to different planets and alien vibes.
It is difficult to describe where the head goes during the first track. From Japan to Mars, from the rings of Saturn to the train station of Sete Rios in Lisbon. From the peace of the jacaranda trees in bloom to the hustle and bustle of everyday. It is through these realities and imaginary that I move in an accelerated pace, sometimes slow and prolonged.
Almost twenty-two minutes after the trip has begun there is a cough that brings me to the reality of the live concert. I returned from Saturn and landed at Culturgest. And as soon as I landed, I quickly returned to a herd hurrying through a savannah.
In fifty-one minutes and fifty-six seconds I went to many places, I felt and experienced moments of extreme pleasure.
AlI in my living room, with headphones and a smile on my face.
The dialogue between the three is intense and assertive, spontaneous and concerted. Slowly we feel the dynamics to grow and the peak is fast and strong.
Live in Cascais I is a new dialogue. Tighter and darker. That makes us dizzy and holding our breath in a few moments.
At twenty-seven minutes a hurry is set up, the heartbeat accelerates and we are agitated, anxious to get somewhere that will bring us a brief moment to breathe.
Imagine a train trip between Lisbon and Cascais I. We have just left Lisbon where the time was not important, where there was a peace - which we can say is really imaginary in the city - and that in the journey between the two places there was tension and anxiety to arrive. In which time runs and the dialogue is intensifying.
That's what I feel between the first and second tracks on the record. Everything intensifies. Everything becomes more interesting.
And when I found myself applauding, is the announce that we were about to enter Cascais II. The calm returns, the tension is relieved and gives place to a moment in which three exceptional musicians breathe between sounds and phrases in a mutual and fluid understanding.
Cascais II is the perfect close of an excellent album. Make us feel that we want to return to Lisbon and start the journey again.
Credits
Tatsuya Nakatani - Drums and Percussion
John Edwards - Double Bass
Rafael Toral - Electronic Instruments
Thanks to: Pedro Costa
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