Inrain / Rise / Music From Memory

Music From Memory’s latest archival release rescues a short-lived collaboration between Rudy Tambala, of A.R.Kane, and Alison Shaw, of Cranes. Assuming the alias, Inrain, the pair, in 1991, produced a solitary 3-track 7 for Rough Trade. The songs were created in Tambala’s H.Ark! Studios, in Stratford, situated in London’s then un-gentrified, less than salubrious, East End.* Tambala, at the time, was also working with the pioneering UK post-rockers Bark Psychosis and Papa Sprain, and Inrain’s music explores similar experimental, improvisational sonic territory. Grow marries acoustic strum with cathartic, electric chiming. Sparse, Lo-Fi, and rinsed with reverb, it represents the duo at their most A.R.Kane. …And Julie Rose is a loose lullaby, delivered in Shaw’s distinctive, childlike vocals, and set to romantic elevator muzak. Something about its drum machines, tones and textures suggesting Sarah Records’ Field Mice. Sleep is suitably dream-like. A slow, unhurried drift of pretty guitar…