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The Rain Series

Album-length ambient soundscapes for quiet listening.
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Rain is a series of conceptual CDs produced under the auspices of Webbed Hand Records. Each Rain is a CD-length ambient recording ideal for listening to while relaxing, working, or socializing. Typically the recordings in this series are minimalistic soundscapes, with motifs played out cyclically and repetitively, rather than progressively, in order to induce a relaxed state of mind.

The series began with Rain I by Rolling Calf Sinfonette, and was not originally intended for release. It was made as an experiment in "bedtime music" for personal use. But others heard about it, and listened to it, and loved it, and so it was released and other Rain albums followed. The series has become the heart of the Webbed Hand label, and it is clear that there is a growing fan base for "bedtime music" like this.

The "Rain" name for the series naturally comes from a central motif of the first album, in which the sound of rain strongly informs the ambience. Not all of the albums contain rain sounds, but many do have some kind of watery elements, since the sounds of rain, trickling water, and ocean waves are relaxing and conducive to stillness.

All of the albums in this series are hosted online by the Internet Archive and are free to download, complete with cover art, so you can make copies for yourself and your friends.


wh082 Mystified - Rain 1


Mystified's Rain 1 is a minimalistic and hypnotic composition intended for deep listening (or sleep listening). Panning across the stereo spectrum is a bright sound with a patter of rainy static in its wake. Strangely soothing and stimulating at the same time.

wh081 Mystified - Rain 2


Mystified's Rain 2 is a shimmering hailstorm of mysterious percussive sounds resonating across a wide space. This is foremost an album of auditory texture which seeks to induce in the listener a reverie of vague mental associations and feelings.

wh079 833-45 - Rain 1


Here is a contribution to the acclaimed Rain series on Webbed Hand by 833-45, a project of the talented producer K.M. Krebs. A long-form ambient work awash in subtle throbs and hypnotic crackle, this entrancing recording presents the 833-45 sound in a CD length journey through a more hidden auditory spectrum of aerial electronic phenomena.

wh077 Djinnestan - Rain 3


A third Rain-themed longform ambient composition by Djinnestan. Perhaps still in a forest, but now at the banks of a stream, with wisps of fog, chirping crickets, the moon, and other mysterious nocturnal elements. This CD-length work creates a nice acoustic mood for meditation or sleep.

wh076 Akashic Crow's Nest - Rain 2


The second soothing dreamscape by Akashic Crow's Nest employs ACN's characteristic generative textures plus additional ambient samples to sculpt a smooth and restful atmosphere to lull the brainwaves into a relaxed state.

wh071 ghostheory - Rain


This new electroacoustic longform piece by Andrew Latham's Ghostheory project takes Webbed Hand's "Rain" concept in a darker, more industial direction. A shifting palette of drones, clangs, inscrutable noises, and static are all blurred together into a hypnotic journey that could be either soothing or stimulating, depending on your volume settings.

wh061 K.M. Krebs - Rain 1


Here is a contribution to the acclaimed Rain series on Webbed Hand by the talented K.M. Krebs. A long-form ambient work of many subtle and shifting motifs, this relaxing electroacoustic ambient journey will take you far on pleasant and varying wavelengths.

wh047 Mystified - Rain 3


Mystified's third Rain album is a bright, languid, minimalistic composition which conveys a sense of self-sufficient solitude. Piano keyboard notes and chords are plucked from space and reverberate lightly in the mind.

wh043 Djinnestan - Rain 2


A 74-minute ambient track. The setting here comes across not as a fairytale forest, as in Rain 1 [wh028], rather more like an ancient abandoned city on the edge of a desert, as viewed in a grainy film. For some of more sensitive intuition, not empty at all but bustling with ghosts.

wh041 spoonPhase - Rain 1


This recording takes you into the vast cavernous spaces of your mind, where the rhythms of nature are quietly performed by the elements and sightless creatures of the deep.

wh031 Tribe of Astronauts - Rain 2


Shifting drones and drips and drops conceal deeper activities. Tribe of Astronauts second Rain album continues in the tradition of Webbed Hand's popular series of CD-length ambient soundscapes, intended for quiet listening.

wh028 Djinnestan - Rain 1


Much like Djinnestan's shorter works, this 74-minute piece is subtle and enchanted. As if in a dream you find yourself strolling in a fairytale forest, dark and misty, peopled by the figments of childhood imaginings.

wh027 Tribe of Astronauts - Rain 1


Tribe of Astronauts' "Rain 1" is a pleasing wash of white noises, cycling in slow rhythms. Waxing and waning brushstrokes of static, rumbles, and other obscure sounds lull the mind into a deep and peaceful state.

wh019 Tree Helicopter - Rain I


Tree Helicopter's first contribution to the Webbed Hand Rain project. This CD-length ambient recording endeavors to soothe you with characteristic Tree Helicopter samples and rhythms.

wh011 Akashic Crow's Nest - Rain 1


Akashic Crow's Nest offers its own peculiar take on Webbed Hand Records' Rain series of album-length ambient releases. The ACN sound is distinguished by the use of an image synthesizer (pictures are translated into sounds) to produce most of the auditory elements used in its compositions.

wh010 Rolling Calf Sinfonette - Rain III


Number III from RCS, for Webbed Hand's "Rain" series of ambient concept albums. Trancey, very bassy. An excellent soundtrack for long meditations. Approximately 74 minutes long.

wh009 Saluki Regicide - Rain III


Number III from SR, for Webbed Hand's "Rain" series of ambient concept albums. Psychedelic, synaesthetic, it puts your mind in a very strange place. Play this while you sleep. This is a single CD-length (approx 74 minutes) track.

wh008 Saluki Regicide - Rain II


The Webbed Hand Records "Rain" series is graced by a second contribution from Saluki Regicide. A 74-minute hallucination, warm as a crackling fire, and casting many peculiar shadows.

wh006 Rolling Calf Sinfonette - Rain II


The second Rain CD by RCS. Trancey and dreamy and sweetened with purring cats and echoing harps. A relaxing recording to lull you to sleep. This is a single album-length (approx 74 minutes) track, meant to be played at low volume.

wh004 Rolling Calf Sinfonette - Rain I


Rolling Calf Sinfonette's first trancey contribution to the Webbed Hand "Rain" project. A 74-minute rhythmic massage, dreamy and evocative of distant drums beneath a drizzly forest canopy.

wh002 Saluki Regicide - Rain I


Saluki Regicide's first contribution the the Webbed Hand Records series of concept albums called "Rain." This is a 74-minute ambient lullabye, rich in mysterious sounds and dimly familiar allusions.




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