Visionary guitar poet and pioneer of experimental electronic music celebrates a 40-year journey with Guitar Concert
Rafael Toral creates expansive soundscapes with guitar and electronics. Alongside musicians such as Jim O’Rourke, Otomo Yoshihide, and Oren Ambarchi, he helped reinvent electronic music in the 1990s by allowing rock, jazz, ambient, and minimalism to flow together in new, open forms. Since then, Toral has remained an indispensable figure on the electronic music scene, and now, 40 years on, he is ready to take over ALICE with his project Guitar Concert. The Copenhagen-based improv trio Treen opens the evening.
For more than four decades, Rafael Toral has been a central figure in experimental music – an artist who has repeatedly been ahead of his time. Based in Lisbon, Toral emerged in the 1990s as part of a generation that, together with names such as Jim O’Rourke, Otomo Yoshihide, and Oren Ambarchi, reinvented electronic music by blending rock, jazz, am...

Visionary guitar poet and pioneer of experimental electronic music celebrates a 40-year journey with Guitar Concert
Rafael Toral creates expansive soundscapes with guitar and electronics. Alongside musicians such as Jim O’Rourke, Otomo Yoshihide, and Oren Ambarchi, he helped reinvent electronic music in the 1990s by allowing rock, jazz, ambient, and minimalism to flow together in new, open forms. Since then, Toral has remained an indispensable figure on the electronic music scene, and now, 40 years on, he is ready to take over ALICE with his project Guitar Concert. The Copenhagen-based improv trio Treen opens the evening.
For more than four decades, Rafael Toral has been a central figure in experimental music – an artist who has repeatedly been ahead of his time. Based in Lisbon, Toral emerged in the 1990s as part of a generation that, together with names such as Jim O’Rourke, Otomo Yoshihide, and Oren Ambarchi, reinvented electronic music by blending rock, jazz, ambient, and minimalism into new, open forms. With groundbreaking works such as Sound Mind Sound Body, Wave Field, and Space Program, Rafael Toral has created vast sonic surfaces, long-form tones, and musical practices that defined a new phase of minimal music and inspired countless artists in the years that followed.

In recent years, Rafael Toral’s work has entered a new, hybrid phase, in which the guitar plays a central role alongside the textures and sound worlds that have shaped his entire oeuvre. When he presents Guitar Concert at ALICE, Rafael Toral offers a concentrated snapshot of this development. The concert draws threads through his entire discography – from early milestones to the critically acclaimed Spectral Evolution – while also opening up space for spontaneous moments and new works. It is a celebration of the guitar as an instrument and of the beauty found in the open space between tones.

Treen
Treen is a new, yet already tightly knit name on the Copenhagen improv scene. The trio was formed in the autumn of 2023, when drummer Jan Philipp, pianist Gintė Preisaitė, and alto saxophonist Amalie Dahl met in Copenhagen. Together, the three distinct musical voices create an open and compelling space for acoustic free improvisation. The music emerges from a warm, playful state of mind, where nothing is predetermined and everything listens intently to each other. The trio moves as a single organism, constantly responding to the impulses and energy of the moment. The result is slowly evolving, droning passages that are impossible not to lean into. In September 2025, Treen released their second studio album Kaikō on the Norwegian label Sauajazz.

The concert is part of Vinterjazz 2026. Vinterjazz is a nationwide music festival spanning three weeks and featuring around 600 concerts across more than 150 venues and presenters, from Skagen to Svaneke. Vinterjazz 2026 takes place from January 30 to February 28. Read more at www.jazz.dk

Wednesday _25.02.26
Doors at: 19:00
Concert at: 20:00
Standard: 150 DKK + fee
Youth under 25 / Student: 130 DKK + fee
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