Raintree Crow

Rain Tree Crow | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 16, 1991)
• Label: Atlantic / Wea
• ASIN: B00008EQ9L
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #622,615 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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. A Reassuringly Dull Sunday

10. Blackcrow Hits Shoe Shine City

11. Scratchings on the Bible Belt

12. Cries and Whispers

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars yeah, but where is that bass??, September 9, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Rain Tree Crow (Audio CD)

Rain Tree Crow was a reunion of the members of early-80s art pop group Japan who blazed a small, but worthy of respect, trail of real musicianship and craft in that oddly frothy period. Since the somewhat rancorous demise of the band (at the peak of its commercial success) its members had gone in different directions, with the main writer and singer, David Sylvian, releasing several excellent albums. Since the band was reformed more or less under his tutelage (and split again, apparently with the rancor intact), it is no surprise that the album sounds very much like a Sylvian album: slightly pastoral, exotically coloured by instruments old and tweaked, with his deep and sonorous voice often center stage. There are several strong songs on the album (Blackwater, Pocket Full of Change and Every Colour You Are are the best), some duds (the very 80s artfunk of Blackcrow Hits Shoeshine City..even the title makes you blanch), and some surprises (the opener is a great big slice of world music that somehow works) but the best pieces are the instrumental ones, which are like tiny but lush, panoramic movies. Oddly, the one instrument that really defined the original Japan -- Mick Karn's huge, squelching fretless bass -- is completely absent from Rain Tree Crow. Can't help but admit that it is goofily missed.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Music, October 20, 2005

By 

L. S. Slaughter "silvanus" (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rain Tree Crow (Audio CD)

How has this exotic, strange, lovely CD gone so unnoticed? This is one of Sylvian's best efforts, well, alongside GONE TO EARTH. It's odd grey-music, but the ususal nice Sylvian melodies and lyrics. Very, very cinematic.

GET IT.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music to dream by, or dream while driving?, July 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Rain Tree Crow (Audio CD)

A few years back, I drove from Phoenix Az. up to the Grand Canyon with this music. It is music for the inner cinema, it evolves with every playing. The light seemed to change with the music and my experience of the high desert changed as well. I cannot find the words to say how this music has changed my life. It is on a par with the environmental releases from Steve Roach, in my opinion.