Artist: Rain Dog
Album: Two Words
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Label: Project Mooncircle
For Samuel Evans, or Rain Dog, creating ‘Two Words’ was a vast experiment to combine different attempts of blending more traditional elements of song writing and composition with the more contemporary influences of modern electronic dance and bass music, all within the confines of his computer and chair…
Being compelled by melody and variation, Rain Dog, by his own admission, never had much talent for songwriting in terms of lyrics. To circumvent this, however, he focuses on creating a narrative within the music through the combination of synth work and samples. He starts with anything that sparks an interest or emotion in him – Tom Waits, Joni Mitchel, Ella Fitzgerald, Portico Quartet and moments from movies, samples like these usually work as a foundation for the tracks. He then adds layers of unique and organic synth sounds (a notion he finds quite interesting when working entirely from a digital platform) before eventually completing the production with the beat. He likes his music like a nice pie – warm, hearty, and crusty.
‘Two Words’ is filled with a lot of ambient, soul and emotions. Some of our favorites are “Felicity” (Feat Bigson), “Nexus” (Feat Robot Koch), “Fool’s Game,” and “Watch Over” (Feat Sam Rogers). You can listen/stream Rain Dog – Two Words below! If you like what you hear, you can purchase the project here.
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