9 RAIN

Steven Brown – vocals, sax, clarinet, keyboards
Alejandro Herrera – blues-harp, jarana, requinto, calimba
Nikolas Klau – electronics, bass
Jose Luis Dominguez – guitars
Carlos Munoz – percussionist

By mid 90s, a co-founder of the legendary San Francisco group Tuxedomoon Steven Brown founded 9 Rain. At the time, this progressive group could be classified somewhere in-between world, electronic and jazz music based on its sense of identity. Steven brown moved to Mexico wishing to plunge into its culture and everyday life. His reputation of an avant-garde pop-music pioneer has been boosted by his playing with the 9 Rain. Together with German electronic musician Nikolas Klau and Mexican multi-instrumentalist Alejandro Herrera, he endeavours to trace the links between Latin American groove and European jazz, between underground rock and imaginary film music.

The songs from the Rain of Fire joyfully roam through styles and periods, being propelled by emotions, experiment and the sense of nuances. Some songs might well be the soundtrack music for Mexican westerns, while some reflect the frenzy of Mexico City in the music. In a song titled Venus Rising, Brown invites his listeners to a town in which the world is going to collapse, in which the banks rob you of your cash and the thieves of all the rest. Come to Mexico and see the world upside down. Most of the texts and sounds have been impregnated with almost British-like irony used by the group for sharpening their own drama.

Discography :
9 Rain – Opcion Sonica, Mexico
Rain of Fire – Opcion Sonica, Mexico/Traumton, Germany
Choice – Neoacustica, Russia