Rainmaker is to date the most genre defying album from Luke Janela. It is experimental, made up of equal part soundscapes and songs. The songs are beautiful and short, the soundscapes compelling and strange. It plays like a scrapbook, flipping from page to page.
“Rainmaker… ahh, what can I say. Its one of my favorite creations. Pure bliss and hell in the basement of a Portland house, somewhere on the North Side of Mt. Tabor. This recording came at the end of a lot of things: the end of the work on Blue Star, the end of “The Key”, my band of best friends in Portland, and, ultimately, the end of my time in Portland, and the beginning of a longer escapade that started in Mendocino, CA.
These songs are obviously raw, and a lot of the lyrics are too… and that is what I love about it. I also love what an effective document it turned out to be of a very specific time in my and everyone me’s lives.”
