{"product_id":"space-solo-1-deluxe-version","title":"Space Solo 1 [Deluxe Version]","description":"Space Solo 1 is Rafael Toral's follow-up to Space (released by Staubgold in 2006) and is both the second album in his so-called \"Space Program\" and the first in his \"Solo Series.\" Let's explain. The \"Space Program\" is the overall title of Toral's experiments with electronic music performance using self-built devices triggered by light, movement or other forms of interaction that engage the performer on a deeper level than a computer mouse. Space -- the album -- featured pieces played on several of these instruments. Space Solo 1 contains five pieces, each one focusing on a single instrument. \"Portable Amplifier\" and \"Portable Amplifier 3\" feature portable amplifier feedback with light-controlled filter. The first of these two pieces accounts for half of the whole album. The shorter pieces involve a delayed feedback empty circuit, another modified portable amplifier and a portable oscillator. The equipment is rather crude and the means used to control it are simple. As a result, the music thus produced has a \"stark naked\" quality to it and often evokes early electronic experiments, somewhere between a sci-fi \"bleep\" and childish experiments with feedback on a portable radio and microphone. Toral is doing the best he can to develop a musical vocabulary with this material, but that vocabulary remains very limited. He manages to create enough dynamic and diversity to sustain the listener's interest in short pieces, but the 22-minute \"Portable Amplifier\" simply gets too long too early. Maybe this music would work better on a DVD, with the visual component of the performance still attached to it. In any case, compared to Toral's past guitar soundscapes or even the more generous Space CD, Space Solo 1 is disappointing and thin. ~ François Couture","brand":"InnerSleeve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911513612453,"sku":"879198001614","price":20.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/6007\/1077\/files\/4e8bb90b4e57676c0e1fb33b6ad10f0a_286899c1-b2cd-45fd-aa64-220c9e94469a.jpg?v=1779656815","url":"https:\/\/www.innersleeve.com\/en-de\/products\/space-solo-1-deluxe-version","provider":"InnerSleeve","version":"1.0","type":"link"}