Sediment

While Rain shared a similar membership to New Zealand group Flies Inside The Sun – they were basically the latter group less one member – there’s something quite distinct about how this trio explores the parameters of free music. Across Sediment, can hear a collective mind slowly slip loose from the anchorings of rock, and if there’s any relationship back to Peter Stapleton’s tenure in Terminals, or his and Kim Pieters’ time in Dadamah, it’s rendered tenuous by the album’s conclusion. Danny Butt’s guitar and electronics help to unmoor proceedings further, and even when they’re lost in lagoons of drone – see the album highlight, the gorgeous “Lost Angel Memory” – the playing has an of-the-moment radiance, as the waves of guitar hum, cymbal wash, and electronics envelop everything in mist and fog.