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Rain Tree Crow is a succesful blend of more experimental work and songwriting- a work produced from improvised sessions from a band that used to be called Japan (if you're expecting Visions of China...er, don't!)When it was released I was a little cynical about it- why rename Japan? why the ambient noodling? & why title songs things like A Reassuringly Dull Sunday? It didn't seem very instant as an album either- more Plight&Premonition than Secrets of the Beehive...But the passage of time and frequent listening has made me come to adore this album, not unlike another avant-garde inflected album of 1991, Talk Talk's Laughing Stock.
This new edition comes with more lovely artwork, an improved sound & a bonus track in the form of Blackwater b-side I Drink to Forget (a bit of a non-event, think Thoroughly Lost to Logic)Big Wheels in Shanty Town feels like the kind of avant garde jam Radiohead tried to achieve on Amnesiac; it also has a feel not unlike artists like David Byrne & Peter Gabriel (Passion, Catherine Wheel) Every Colour You Are is the first of the great songs- regular Sylvian-guest Phil Palmer offers some sublime slide guitar to Rain Tree Crow's finest song (revisited on Damage & Everything and Nothing)- another peak in Sylvian's oeuvre...
There are several minimal acoustic songs- Rain Tree Crow, Boat's for Burning, Cries & Whispers- which contrast well with the band-songs and the instrumental directions (as a sequence this album really works well as a whole). The acoustic songs also prefigure tracks like 1999's Dobro#1 & much of the recent Blemish. Red Earth (as summetime ends) remains the most gorgeous ambient/instrumental piece here- hence its inclusion on the wonderful 'A Brief History of Ambient' series of compilations.
There are more great songs- single Blackwater, the guitar-inflected Blackcrow Hits Shoeshine City (predicting The First Day sound) & another joy, Pocket Full of Change (which is up there with the not dissimilar After the Flood By Talk Talk)
Rain Tree Crow is one of the Sylvian albums I play the most, which is surprising given how I wasn;t too keen when I first heard it. It has a very individual quality to it- despite referring back to such releases as Gone to Earth & Words with the Shaman, as it looks forward to Dead Bees on a Cake or Blemish. Rain Tree Crow is a perfect blend of ambient and songwriting and an album that should appeal to those with eclectic tastes; file between Bark Psychosis & Talk Talk...& certainly not far away from newer bands like Sigur Ros...
This new edition comes with more lovely artwork, an improved sound & a bonus track in the form of Blackwater b-side I Drink to Forget (a bit of a non-event, think Thoroughly Lost to Logic)Big Wheels in Shanty Town feels like the kind of avant garde jam Radiohead tried to achieve on Amnesiac; it also has a feel not unlike artists like David Byrne & Peter Gabriel (Passion, Catherine Wheel) Every Colour You Are is the first of the great songs- regular Sylvian-guest Phil Palmer offers some sublime slide guitar to Rain Tree Crow's finest song (revisited on Damage & Everything and Nothing)- another peak in Sylvian's oeuvre...
There are several minimal acoustic songs- Rain Tree Crow, Boat's for Burning, Cries & Whispers- which contrast well with the band-songs and the instrumental directions (as a sequence this album really works well as a whole). The acoustic songs also prefigure tracks like 1999's Dobro#1 & much of the recent Blemish. Red Earth (as summetime ends) remains the most gorgeous ambient/instrumental piece here- hence its inclusion on the wonderful 'A Brief History of Ambient' series of compilations.
There are more great songs- single Blackwater, the guitar-inflected Blackcrow Hits Shoeshine City (predicting The First Day sound) & another joy, Pocket Full of Change (which is up there with the not dissimilar After the Flood By Talk Talk)
Rain Tree Crow is one of the Sylvian albums I play the most, which is surprising given how I wasn;t too keen when I first heard it. It has a very individual quality to it- despite referring back to such releases as Gone to Earth & Words with the Shaman, as it looks forward to Dead Bees on a Cake or Blemish. Rain Tree Crow is a perfect blend of ambient and songwriting and an album that should appeal to those with eclectic tastes; file between Bark Psychosis & Talk Talk...& certainly not far away from newer bands like Sigur Ros...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I love this album and am sure to wear it out before I've finished listening to it. Just seems to be playing in my car the whole time now.
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I can understand why D Sylvian didn't want to market this under former band Japan's name - it is nothing like Japan. The sound is darker, with a more American country feel (perhaps the influence of Sylvian now living in America?), and some tracks are almost instrumental befre Sylvian finally crops up. If it had been sold under the Japan name, no doubt everyone would have said "This isn't Japan!" It plays more like a film soundtrack at times.
This is one of the albums that shows Mr Sylvian's voice getting gradually richer, deeper and with mroe of a burr. By 'Sleepwalkers' he sounds like he's on 50 Marlboro a day. But a very rich and involving sound.
When there are records like this in existence, it makes you wonder how Boyzone ever got in the charts ....
This is one of the albums that shows Mr Sylvian's voice getting gradually richer, deeper and with mroe of a burr. By 'Sleepwalkers' he sounds like he's on 50 Marlboro a day. But a very rich and involving sound.
When there are records like this in existence, it makes you wonder how Boyzone ever got in the charts ....
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