Closer To The Flame, by The Rain Garden

Closer To The Flame

by The Rain Garden

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1.	Whales In The Attik 08:10	info	buy track
2.	Five Rivers 06:44	info	buy track
3.	Escape 03:51	info	buy track
4.	In D 01:22	info	buy track
5.	Life is for Living 06:49	info	buy track
6.	Distances 07:52	info	buy track
7.	Whales Go Free 03:08	info	buy track
8.	New Wandering Way 01:34	info	buy track
9.	Must Remember... 04:46	info	buy track
10.	The Ritual Begins 01:34	info	buy track
11.	Closer To The Flame 06:31	info	buy track
12.	On Swept The Ritual 02:24	info	buy track

about

A classic atmospheric album of world music fusion.
Re-issued on CD for the first time, a huge array of instruments weave a path through many different styles - Indian, jazz, Celtic, Balkan, ambient, improvised music and more. Throughout is the powerful atmosphere that defined The Rain Garden sound.

The Rain Garden, now in 4 piece (and occasionally 5 piece) mode. Percussionist Sudha Kheterpal (now with pop band Faithless) adding a more solid percussive base to the groups sound and freeing the others to roam on a wider range of instruments. The whole session had a refreshingly exploratory feel as ideas were freely exchanged and tired out.

The musicians gathered in an Mary's attik studio and over the course of several days produced some extrordinary music.

There was a real creative freshness on this album. New ideas were flowing back and forth and the improvisations were especially stunning. The album feels at times like a sacred ritual.

credits

released May 12, 1992

Chris Conway - keyboards, acoustic 10 string & electric 9 string guitars, flute, bamboo flute, laud, voice, zither, qen, double bass, kalimba, tin whistle & horn.

Carl Peberdy - sitar, tabla, bamboo & tin whistles, hammer dulcimer, lyrebec, bodhran, voice, zither, qen, naal, bamboo & brass horns, swanny whistle.

Mary Browne - voice, percussion, alto saxophone, keyboards, tin whistle, tanpura

Sudha Kheterpal - Morrocan drums, naal, piping, tabla, kalimba, zither, swoosh, matches

Dave Everitt - double bass, tin whistle - 4, 5, 6, 11