Rain Tree Crow
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April 08, 1991 |
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September 1989 to April 1990 |
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45:34 minutes |
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Rain Tree Crow , is the solo album of the same name by the English band, Rain Tree Crow. It is considered the reunion project of the New Wave Band, Japan . The album was recorded between 1989 and 1990 and released in April 1991. It was after the band split in 1982, the first time that musicians David Sylvian , Mick Karn , Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri were back in the studio together. Former Japan guitarist Rob Dean did not take part in the recordings.
background
The eponymous title for the album and the band was chosen to mark a break with their musical past. With the intention of creating a new, long-term project. Since the recordings turned out to be less commercial than originally planned, the musicians, with the exception of David Sylvian, followed the idea of the record company to keep the band name Japan in order to achieve maximum awareness for this project. Sylvian disagreed and found it difficult to convince the rest of the band. The project enthusiastically started by the band members turned into a human disaster. After the end of the recording, Sylvian took the tapes and mixed the album alone against the resistance of the other members. The project name remained, Rain Tree Crow.
The English magazine Trouser Press wrote after the release: "The album does not sound particularly different from all of their earlier joint works, but they have succeeded in the great art of reviving Japan's rhythms from their later phase and that special Asian listening experience."
Publications
Blackwater was released as the only single on the album and reached number 62 on the UK Singles Chart in March 1991 . The album itself reached number 24 on the UK Albums Chart.
Rain Tree Crow was remastered in 2003 and reissued on CD. The B-side track from the Blackwater single, I Drink To Forget , was included. The title was omitted from the later LP vinyl reissue in March 2019.
Title list / cast
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Big Wheels in Shanty Town - 7:08
- David Sylvian - vocals , electric guitar , Hammond organ , piano , shortwave radio , brass arrangement
- Bill Nelson - guitar
- Mick Karn - bass guitar , bass clarinet , brass arrangement
- Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
- Djene Doumbouya - vocals
- Djanka Djabate - singing
- Steve Jansen - drums , percussion , Hammond organ
- Johnny Thirkell - trumpet , flugelhorn
- Gary Barnacle - saxophone
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Every Color You Are - 4:46
- David Sylvian - vocals, electric guitar, piano, shortwave radio
- Phil Palmer - slide guitar
- Mick Karn - bass guitar, saxophone
- Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
- Steve Jansen - drums, percussion
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Rain Tree Crow - 2:04
- David Sylvian - vocals, percussion
- Mick Karn - flute
- Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
- Steve Jansen - percussion
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Red Earth (As Summertime Ends) - 3:38
- David Sylvian - slide guitar, Indian drum
- Phil Palmer - acoustic guitar
- Michael Brook - bass guitar, conga
- Mick Karn - bass guitar, tabla
- Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
- Brian Gascoigne - Orchestration
- Steve Jansen - drums, percussion
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Pocket Full of Change - 6:08
- David Sylvian - vocals, electric guitar, Hammond organ
- Michael Brook - guitar effect
- Mick Karn - bass guitar, bass clarinet
- Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
- Steve Jansen - drums, percussion, Hammond organ
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Boat's for Burning - 0:45
- David Sylvian - vocals, electric guitar
- Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
- Steve Jansen - tambourine
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New Moon at Red Deer Wallow - 5:12
- David Sylvian - electric guitar, bass guitar
- Mick Karn - bass guitar, clarinet
- Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
- Steve Jansen - hoopla
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Blackwater - 4:19
- David Sylvian - vocals, electric guitar
- Bill Nelson - electric guitar
- Mick Karn - bass guitar
- Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
- Steve Jansen - drums, percussion
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A Reassuringly Dull Sunday - 1:22
- David Sylvian - Hammond organ, percussion
- Michael Brook - percussion
- Mick Karn - bass guitar, percussion
- Richard Barbieri - synthesizer, piano
- Steve Jansen - marimba, percussion
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Blackcrow Hits Shoe Shine City - 5:14
- David Sylvian - vocals, electric guitar, Hammond organ, electric piano
- Mick Karn - bass guitar, saxophone
- Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
- Steve Jansen - drums, percussion
- Bill Nelson - slide guitar
- Michael Brook - guitar
- Scratchings on the Bible Belt - 2:46
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Cries and Whispers - 2:31
- David Sylvian - vocals, electric guitar
- Mick Karn - bass guitar
- Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
- Steve Jansen - percussion
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I Drink to Forget (Bonus 2003, Remaster) - 1:46
- David Sylvian - piano, percussion
- Mick Karn - Wine glass sounds
- Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
- Steve Jansen - percussion
Studio musician / production
- Gary Barnacle - saxophone
- Johnny Thirkell - trumpet / flugelhorn
- Steve Nye - sound mix
- Pat McCarthy - sound engineer
- Tim Martin - sound engineer
- Paolo Carrer - sound assistant
- Rupert Coulson - sound assistant
- Louise McCormick - sound assistant
- Bruce Davies - sound assistant
- Paul Stevens - sound assistant
- Richard Chadwick - Musical Coordination
- Shinya Fujiwara - cover photo
- Russell Mills - design
- Yuka Fujii - Art Director
Individual evidence
- ↑ innerviews: Mick Karn, Sculpting sound. Anil Prasad, 1996, accessed 2020 .
- ↑ Official Charts: Blackwater, Rain Tree Crow. 1991, accessed in 2020 .
- ↑ Official Charts: Rain Tree Crow, Album. 1991, accessed in 2020 .