Members Baku Tsunoda and Naomichi Tanaka met in 2000 when they were both DJ… Read Full Bio ↴Members Baku Tsunoda and Naomichi Tanaka met in 2000 when they were both DJing at the same club in Tokyo. Tsunoda had played in a Yellow Magic Orchestra tribute band and a JB's-styled backing band while Tanaka was spending his time playing in punk bands and collecting every Madchester record he could find in Japan. When they joined together, it was the influence of composer John Cage that took over, not only his sound, but also his methods of composition. Soon the duo was looking to the arts other than music for their influence. Using paintings, sculptures, and other media as their muse, Rainstick Orchestra recorded their debut, The Floating Glass Key in the Sky. The album of "delicate systems music" was released by Ninja Tune in 2005.
By day, Baku is an Editorial Designer and Naomichi is a Systems Engineer. But it’s music that drives them both. While Naomichi cites an early love of the music of Manchester as a formative influence as well as time playing in punk bands, Baku started out playing guitar and piano in both a Yellow Magic Orchestra covers band and a session group who played in the style of Maceo Parker and Funkadelic.
What they create together, using guitars, piano, bass & sequencers, is a delicate ‘systems music’ that gives a nod to the minimalism of John Cage and Steve Reich as well as echoing forms such as techno and jazz. Unsurprisingly, they both subscribe to the idea that music is “borderless”. You can also hear the sounds of minimalist composers Philip Glass in the music of Rainstick Orchestra but the band prefers to explain it as "wide-eyed hyperlink music for waking-dreamtime."
Biography by David Jeffries
By day, Baku is an Editorial Designer and Naomichi is a Systems Engineer. But it’s music that drives them both. While Naomichi cites an early love of the music of Manchester as a formative influence as well as time playing in punk bands, Baku started out playing guitar and piano in both a Yellow Magic Orchestra covers band and a session group who played in the style of Maceo Parker and Funkadelic.
What they create together, using guitars, piano, bass & sequencers, is a delicate ‘systems music’ that gives a nod to the minimalism of John Cage and Steve Reich as well as echoing forms such as techno and jazz. Unsurprisingly, they both subscribe to the idea that music is “borderless”. You can also hear the sounds of minimalist composers Philip Glass in the music of Rainstick Orchestra but the band prefers to explain it as "wide-eyed hyperlink music for waking-dreamtime."
Biography by David Jeffries
More Genres
No Artists Found
More Artists
Load All
No Albums Found
More Albums
Load All
No Tracks Found
Genre not found
Artist not found
Album not found
Search results not found
Song not found
Waltz for a Little Bird
Rainstick Orchestra Lyrics
No lyrics text found for this track.
The lyrics are frequently found in the comments by searching or by filtering for lyric videos
The lyrics are frequently found in the comments by searching or by filtering for lyric videos
Andrew Wolfson
Such a beautiful song. I definitely agree - I could listen to this over and over at many different periods of my life.
Offdrive3
One of the great undiscovered and unrecognised albums i believe.
Cari
I heard this for the first time yesterday and I love it! :)
Teddy Cipolla
That was a long time ago
VerninTheRat
I left this page open, went to bed...and today I awoke to the surreal, faint sounds of a xylophone and the weird synth...I didn't even question it, nor why or how it happened. Thanks Inari, for pressing play on my computer today. seriously though, I've never had anything just play on it's own like this...It's compelling.
Ephraim Mfolo
Found this song in my archives....still a great song
ladonnaal
totally forgot about this piece of greatness. soooooo good. love from Detroit.
elegantdisc
amazing
daisaku imada
It's good.
ぱんのみみ
マックで流れてました！
す