dear all,
please find below rafael toral tour dates for the
RAFAEL TORAL
ELECTRIC BABYLAND TOUR
with stops in (F) & (BE)
plus one show in cologne (D)
plus one show in njimwegen (NL)
for upcoming live dates please refer to
www.rafaeltoral.net
saturday - april 20
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F - Grenoble
le 102
102, rue d'alembert
F38000 grenoble
monday - april 22
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CH - Geneve
cave 12
12, bd de la Tour
Doors open: 9:30 pm
wednesday - april 24
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F - Montreuil (Paris)
Instants Chavirés
7 Rue Richard Lenoir
93100 Montreuil
Metro Robespierre (ligne 9)
thursday - april 25
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F - Nantes
APO33
12 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau 44000 Nantes
friday - april 26
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F - Lille
organise par Le Crime
La Malterie
42, rue Kuhlmann
Lille
supported by: Electric Cue (Guitar 5tet From Lille)
Doors open: 8pm
Showtime: 10pm
saturday - april 27
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BE - Mons
Médiathèque
24, Rue de la Seuwe
(Ilot Grand Place Mons).
Showtime: 4 pm
sunday - april 28
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BE - Louvain La Neuve
Ecuries de la ferme du Biérau
Show time: 9.45 pm
thursday - may 2
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D - Cologne
Loft
Wissmannstr. 30
50823 Köln
Show time: 9 pm
saturday - may 4
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BE - Hasselt
Kunstencentrum Belgie
Burgemeester Bollenstraat 54-56
3500 Hasselt
Support bands: Tristeza + Shalabi
Toral Performance: ca. 23:30h
sunday - may 5
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NL - Nijmwegen
Extrapool
Tweede Walstraat 3 en 5
6511 LN Nijmegen
PRESS RELEASE:
Considered by the Chicago Reader to be "one of the most gifted and
innovative guitarists of the decade", Rafael Toral has been developing
in the last 15 years a unique sound world, having been as influenced
by Alvin Lucier and Brian Eno as by Sonic Youth and My Bloody
Valentine. Using the guitar as part of a complex electronic
instrument, Toral has collaborated with Jim O'Rourke, John Zorn, Sonic
Youth, Rhys Chatham and Phill Niblock and played in many European
countries and in several states in the US. He's also a member of
MIMEO, the electronic orchestra featuring Keith Rowe, Christian
Fennesz, Peter Rehberg, Kaffe Matthews and many others.
Being also active in visual arts and mixed media, he has produced four
video works, collaborated with Paulo Feliciano on the mixed media
installation "Toyzone" at the Sonic Boom sound art exhibition in
London, 2000, and produced several other installations.
His european 2002 tour presents a new performance work, Electric
Babyland.
What is Electric Babyland?
It's a project for live performance. It consists of several pieces to
be performed on a little music box and electronics. Inspired by my
previous 7" single "Lullabies", this is an expanded work using this
instrument.
What do you mean to do?
Face the challenge to compose melody-based music (it's written by
punching holes on a card) colliding with a sound-based approach, which
mine has always been. The music box has a fixed sound and just plays
notes. They'll have to blend and survive the more or less radical
sonic treatments i'll give them.
How does this project relate to your previous guitar and electronics
work?
I've been using the guitar as a sound generator inside a more complex
instrument, composed of several electronic devices. Now i'll be using
the same electronics, but the guitar is being replaced by a music box.
The same approach, but a different sound source with quite different
rules.
TOMLAB ::
http://www.tomlab.de
bismarckstr. 70, 50672 cologne, germany
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