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- Summary: The latest release from Portuguese guitarist Rafael Toral features six jazz standards and was self-produced.
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- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental, Jazz
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Dec 9, 2025While these melodies often feel familiar, Toral puts a mysterious spin on them, warping them enough to make them feel otherworldly. His instrument wavers; his drones have a sparkling, celestial sheen. In the process, the poignant songs start to feel less like themselves and more like a dream.
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MojoDec 9, 2025Frequently gorgeous collection of slow-motion jazz standards. [Feb 2026, p.87]
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UncutDec 9, 2025Stripped ac and stretched out, in Toral's hands these pieces become devotional as he zones in in on their essence. [Dec 2025, p.37]
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Dec 9, 2025The instrumentation fits perfectly with the otherworldly, thoroughly non-jazz sounds of Toral’s guitar pedal wizardry, and the absence of an expected dissonance between the two feels strangely hypnotic.