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Rain Tree Crow [Original recording reissued] [Original recording remastered]

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Audio CD (15 Sep 2003)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Label: Virgin
ASIN: B0000AQOQX

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 130,200 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Big Wheels In Shanty Town

2. Every Colour You Are

3. Rain Tree Crow

4. Red Earth (As Summertime Ends)

5. Pocket Full Of Change

6. Boat's For Burning

7. New Moon At Red Deer Wallow

8. Blackwater

9. Reassuringly Dull Sunday

10. Blackcrow Hits Shoe Shine City

11. Scratchings On The Bible Belt

12. Cries And Whispers

13. I Drink To Forget

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A one-off project of such extraordinary depth it's a crime no sequel materialized. This regrouping of Japan under a Southwest noir name eclipses the majority of the band's fine back catalog. RAIN TREE CROW is hallucinogenic, surreal, mysterious, yet powerful. The vignettes herein tell tales of isolated desert regions pockmarked by loneliness and climatic upheaval, of landscapes barren save for the husks of rusty carskeletons and cattle skulls.
Multi-instrumentalist/vocalist David Sylvian, keyboardist Richard Barbieri, percussionist Steve Jansen and bassist Mick Karn are some of the most adroit musicians in modern music. These moments of brittle rock, fractured "progressive" blues, and supple experimentation remain wholly unique. Restrained yet inventive songscapes such as the beautiful "Pocket Full of Change" and "Every Colour You Are" are balanced against evocative instrumentals such as "Red Earth". Sylvian's rich baritone is given free expressive reign in compositions rich with somber, sienna-tonedelectronics, forlorn guitars, delicate percussive accents, and basslines stretched tight across parched gulches. Immerse yourself.

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5.0 out of 5 stars beauty, 22 Sep 2003

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This, is my favourite album of all time. I am actually a punk fan on one hand, and a classical obsessive on the other, and somewhere in the middle, Japan found a space. I was devastated but understood why, when they broke up. When this CD was released I was at a very low point in my life, and it was just a shimmering piece of wonderful music that took all the best parts of Japan and the best bits of the respective solo works and melded it all together. The whole Cd is simply peace and beauty in music with the heartbreaking 'cries and whispers' finishing the original set. I don't think the adding of the B side has improved it at all..but the new mastering has, as have the pictures. A delight to hear in the new mix.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Quality reinvention, 10 May 2004

By	Edward Teach (Brisbane, Australia) - See all my reviews

This 1991 reincarnation of Japan (minus some-time member Rob Dean) is a delightful hybrid of the experimental styles of its reunited members, post several excellent solo albums. It starts off with a crisp and funky sound in Big Wheels in Shanty Town, but it is not long before we slip into the moody bliss at the heart of Messrs Sylvian, Karn, Jansen and Barbieri.

Certainly this album provides an opportunity for non-Japan/Sylvian fans to indulge themselves in some scintillating sounds and crisp production, without the impenetrable wall of affectation that has symbolised much of the latter solo work from all involved.

There are some moments of weakness where the plot seems to have been left at home, but these are easily forgiven with the sumptuous Blackwater, Every Colour You Are and Pocket Full of Change. Overall, Rain Tree Crow offered a wonderful distraction from the lukewarm choices of the early '90s and remains significant today in a way that only well crafted music can.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 1991's improvised album from renamed Japan..., 18 Aug 2003

By	Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)

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...

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1.0 out of 5 stars what the hell is this?
first off: as JAPAN, these guys had something going...trend-setting art-rockers (or "art-musicians"). Read more

Published on 7 May 2004 by Marcus J. Viduya

5.0 out of 5 stars Audio art given a new lease of life...
The majority of the material on this album was written as a result of group improvisations, there were no pre-rehearsals. Read more

Published on 15 Oct 2003 by Milt Ingarfield

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