Rafael Toral - Constellation in Still Time '2019

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From Rafael Toral 
Everything we do sends a message, and that message is embedded in a story. The
music i recorded between 1987 and 2003 somehow sends its message and theres a
story behind it. By 2006, with Space, i radically changed both the message and
the story. I have always found that both need to be in tune to what is happening
in the world, because they are a response to that. However, since Moon Field
(2017), i have been arriving to a “third phase” that somehow
(re)unites the previous two, a space where the divergent messages and stories
from those different periods are both needed and make sense in these days.
Feeling a general need to slow down almost accidentally shed new light on my
background in Ambient, inspiring new forms to the future. This is the context
where this release is emerging from. The way is forward, not backwards, but
revisiting this piece to finally fulfill its project makes sense to me right
now. 

AER 7 (the records only track) is a piece i wrote in 1992, of which a guitar
version is included in my debut album, Sound Mind Sound Body, released two years
later. It was a departure from the earlier AER pieces i made from 1987 to 1990,
replacing a drone guitar sound with empty space, in a similar kind of structure.
The empty units are in sync but their contents are not, rendering the sequence
of time events almost random. 

I had the idea to produce the present AER 7 G version back then, but at the time
there were no instrument players in Lisbon who might be interested in it.
Commitment to other projects like Wave Field and all the ensuing work kept it in
the drawer until now. A new generation of generous, open-minded, highly skilled
musicians made it suddenly possible to develop the project. 

I have always regarded AER 7 as a melodic generator, or generative, a word i
would learn later on. Its written in a way that prevents repetition and
generates unpredictable results, apart from the pace and the set of notes.
Curiously, Constellation in Still Time is by far the most quintessentially
Ambient record i have ever done. 

Tracklist:
01. Rafael Toral - AER 7 G (1:12:47)

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