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Japan (David Sylvian) Rain Tree Crow [1991, 320 kbps]

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RAIN TREE CROW - Rain Tree Crow (1991)

Codec: mp3.
Description: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3.
Bit rate: 320 kbps.
Sample rate: 44100 Hz joint stereo.
Tags: ID3V1 & ID3V2.
Source format: CD, digitally remastered 2006.
Number of tracks: 12.


Allmusic.com review:
"Rain Tree Crow is the result of a collaboration between former Japan members David Sylvian and Mick Karn. Sylvian and Karn teamed with keyboardist Richard Barbieri and Steve Jansen, adding guitarists Phil Palmer and Bill Nelson for their self-titled debut. Like a mellower, new age-oriented version of Japan, Rain Tree Crow explores stark soundscapes that sound alternately beautiful and desolate. Although it is a bit too challenging to provide a good introduction to Sylvian and Karn's music, the album remains fascinating for their fans."

Wikipedia bio:
Rain Tree Crow was the name used by the successful English New Wave band Japan (excluding Rob Dean) when they briefly reformed for this one-off project, which would be their final album. It was the first time all four members of the band, David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn and Richard Barbieri, collaborated on a project since the compilation of the 1983 live album Oil on Canvas.
The majority of the material on their eponymous album was written as a result of group improvisations (aside from 'Blackwater'). There were no pre-rehearsals and the music that emerged was a hybrid of atmospheric ambient ballads in the style of lead singer David Sylvian's contemporaneous albums and more dissonant experimental styles that sometimes echoed the work of Tom Waits and King Crimson. The album was mostly recorded at Miravel Studios, France, between September 1989 and April 1990.
All members of the band aside from Sylvian wished to retain the Japan moniker which was last used when the band split in December 1982. However, Sylvian levered increasing artistic and production control over the project (including his insistence on using the RTC name, much to the other member's bemusement and annoyance), to the point where the recording developed from a band effort into a what was essentially another Sylvian solo project, leaving the other members as mere sessioners for the front man.
Blackwater was released as the album's only cut and just missed the Top 60 in the UK singles charts in March 1991. The album itself was, in general, critically acclaimed by the music press and reached the Top 25 in the UK albums chart.
"...the album is at its best. Rain Tree Crow is not ponderous, as Japan once had pretensions to be, but it fills a darkened room nicely." -- Sue Peter, Option, 92"

TRACK LIST
Rain Tree Crow (1991)
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01. "Big Wheels in Shanty Town" – 7:08
David Sylvian - vocal, electric guitar, hammond organ, electric piano, shortwave radio, horn arrangement
Bill Nelson - electric guitar
Mick Karn - bass, brass, horn arrangement
Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
Djene Doumbouya - vocal
Djanka Djabate - vocal
Steve Jansen - drums, percussion, hammond organ

02. "Every Colour You Are" – 4:46
David Sylvian - vocal, electric guitar, electric piano, shortwave radio, treatments
Phil Palmer - slide guitar
Mick Karn - bass, saxophone
Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
Steve Jansen - drums, percussion

03. "Rain Tree Crow" – 2:04
David Sylvian - vocal, percussion
Mick Karn - pipes
Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
Steve Jansen - percussion

04. "Red Earth (As Summertime Ends)" – 3:38
David Sylvian - slide guitar, keyboards, Indian drum
Phil Palmer - acoustic guitar
Michael Brook - bass conga
Mick Karn - bass, tabla
Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
Brian Gascoigne - orchestration
Steve Jansen - ceramic drums, percussion

05. "Pocket Full of Change" – 6:08
David Sylvian - vocal, electric guitar, organ
Michael Brook - guitar treatments
Mick Karn - bass, brass
Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
Steve Jansen - drums, percussion, organ

06. "Boat's for Burning" – 0:45
David Sylvian - vocal, electric guitar
Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
Steve Jansen - tambourine

07. "New Moon at Deer Wallow" – 5:12
David Sylvian - electric guitar, bass
Mick Karn - bass clarinet
Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
Steve Jansen - Moroccan clay drum, fan drums

08. "Blackwater" – 4:19
David Sylvian - vocal, electric guitar, keyboards
Bill Nelson - electric guitar
Mick Karn - bass
Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
Steve Jansen - drums, percussion

09. "A Reassuringly Dull Sunday" – 1:22
David Sylvian - organ, keyboards, percussion
Michael Brook - percussion
Mick Karn - bass clarinet, percussion
Richard Barbieri - synthesizer, piano
Steve Jansen - marimba, percussion

10. "Blackcrow Hits Shoe Shine City" – 5:14
David Sylvian - vocal, electric guitar, organ, electric piano, keyboards, treatments
Mick Karn - bass, saxophone
Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
Steve Jansen - drums, percussion

11. "Scratchings on the Bible Belt" – 2:46
David Sylvian - electric guitar, banjo, marimba, harmonium
Michael Brook - treatments
Mick Karn - bass clarinet
Richard Barbieri - synthesizer, water wheel
Steve Jansen - piano, marimba, percussion

12. "Cries and Whispers" – 2:31
David Sylvian - vocal, electric guitar, treatments
Mick Karn - bass
Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
Steve Jansen - percussion
13. "I Drink to Forget" - 1:46
David Sylvian - piano, keyboards, percussion
Mick Karn - wine glasses
Richard Barbieri - synthesizers
Steve Jansen - wine glasses, percussion


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