Razen
RAIN WITHOUT RAIN
(LP)
Tal / 05263591
12 Inch
Belgian duo Razen consists of Brecht Ameel and Kim Delcour who blend old European music and deep listening into a very pure form of acoustic minimalism.
Rain and experimental music have had an interesting connection for decades. Under the umbrella of American film music promotion, Hanns Eisler was already looking for "Vierzehn Arten, den Regen zu beschreiben" (fourteen ways to describe the rain) in 1941. A good 20 years later, The Cascades interpreted the periodicity of rain as a rhythm of mourning. For the Beatles ("If the rain falls, they run and hide their heads"), the precipitation inspired the band to use backward running tapes. However, it seems that there has always been a lot of rainfall in popular music. In the early seventies, David Toop and Paul Burwell even had a band project with the great name Rain In The Face...[info sheet from distr.]