TAKE WARNING RAIN - rain dance redux for the Anthropocene | Amy Cutler

TAKE WARNING RAIN - rain dance redux for the Anthropocene

by Amy Cutler

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atmcgibbon Who could resist dancing in the acid rain while listening to this array of audio bonbons? If it is just on in the background while you are cleaning/changing the cat litter - you might be fooled into thinking you had a regular old radio station on - but then a closer listen opens your ears to the detuning and tempo shifting taking place that turns the "normal" into something a bit more "sick/wicked". Dig in and dance until your skin melts off! Favorite track: the ubiquitous revenge of perfluoroalkyl acids.

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1.	rain dance 1 (spinning tops) 01:47	buy track
2.	wash my face clean 03:37	buy track
3.	the small rain down can rain 03:43	buy track
4.	party in the rain like its 1999 03:36	buy track
5.	Qin Jiushao’s mathematical theorem of rainfall 03:05	buy track
6.	like it never was 02:03	buy track
7.	the vanquished storm 04:26	buy track
8.	goodbye, reprise 01:50	buy track
9.	vapour trails 06:21	buy track
10.	forks’tiyunsdown’ards 02:39	buy track
11.	here comes the rain 01:18	buy track
12.	rain dance 2 (cave scraping 5 a.m.) 03:27	buy track
13.	soil metals redux 02:36	buy track
14.	the rain has been falling for years 03:07	buy track
15.	king of what you survive 02:07	buy track
16.	liquid sunshine 01:32	buy track
17.	a million love songs draining in the rain 03:09	buy track
18.	pluviograph 67 01:48	buy track
19.	the ubiquitous revenge of perfluoroalkyl acids 14:45	buy track
20.	the silver showers of puerto williams 01:43	buy track
21.	there goes the rain 01:23	buy track
22.	the rain it raineth every day (synthetic rain recordings) BONUS DIGITAL ONLY EXTENDED TRACK 08:22	buy track

about

In August 2022 a new anniversary was announced by a group of environmental scientists in the Env. Sci. Tech article “Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary”: the moment at which all rainwater, everywhere on earth, had become irreversibly unsafe to drink.

In TAKE WARNING RAIN, Cutler returns to nostalgic ideas of rainwater’s purity and purification, completing an unofficial trilogy with her earlier albums connected to meteorology, melancholy, and pathetic fallacy. The cliché of emotional self-expression in rain (from “tell it to the rain” to “tears in the rain”), as well as the reliable metaphor of threat as a gathering storm-cloud, are both transformed in our new world of contaminated/infiltrated precipitation.

Field recordings in these songs include sea rain at the Pen ar Ran uranium mine site at 4 a.m. low tide (Brittany), thunderstorms in the remote caves of the solar alignment of La Vall de Gallinera (Valencia), and a deliberately waterlogged phone microphone in Sehuaya canyon, home to the last living river in Mexico city.

The album is also inspired by histories of rainfall calculation as a foundation of predictability, from early record keeping to modern algorithms/computerisation. The bonus extended online track ‘the rain it raineth every day’ has no original sounds, only an AI’s attempt to synthetically recall the sound of rain.

"It is hypothesized that environmental contamination
by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) defines
a separate planetary boundary and that this boundary
has been exceeded."
- Cousins et al, Env Sci Tech 2022

"…and me / Remembering again that I shall die / And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks / For washing me cleaner than I have been / Since I was born into this solitude"
(Edward Thomas)

credits

released November 24, 2023

All tracks: A. Cutler except track 6: A. Cutler and Cabbaggage.

All images & tape cassette artwork generated by Cutler in collaboration with an AI trained on her fieldwork water samples as well as archival & public domain pluviographs, almanacs, & rainfall annotation.

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