To discover Rafael Toral’s career is to delve into 35 years of music, composition and interpretation in rock, free jazz, electronica and ambient. It’s silence and contemplation, noise, and discomfort. It’s getting to know in depth the paths and routes that sound can take us on.

It’s a challenge to interview Rafael Toral. Getting to know his career in depth involves many hours of attentive listening, getting to know his instruments and the musicians with whom he has shared records and stages.

Terra Cobre | João Pais Filipe e Marco da Silva Ferreira The first time I saw João Pais Filipe live was in the Novo Negócio, in a duo with Pedro […]

With the writing of María José Ferrada, I silently peeked through the peephole in my door and lived M’s story as if it were mine.

Yasuko Ko (故やす子) manages in this “Panda Breeding Diary” (パンダの飼育日誌) to pull us back and forth in an act of creation that transcends us.

Interview with João Concha | Exhibition “Que casa sou?” I crossed paths with João during my master’s. What does it matter? Everything and a lot! He was invited by Professor […]

Space Quartet | Last Set You can listen and buy the record on Rafael Toral’s bandcamp page. In a review of one of Rafael Toral’s records, I wrote that I […]

It is always intimate and wrapped in moments of redemption. Ricardo Jacinto, Nuno Morão and Gonçalo Almeida are three reference musicians in national improvisation. The Selva practice a complex and incredible exercise of restraint that dissolves over the course of a story that binds us to the concert. To the here and now.

In April 2022 be speechless. I think I got them back this year. Only now do I know exactly what I want to say and how I want to say it. I wanted life to cross paths with Juva during the pandemic. The hand that led me to him was Rosane Nunes, founder of Editora Raíz, currently Cambucá.