Rainmaker, by Ben Sidran

Rainmaker

by Ben Sidran

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Pre-order of Rainmaker. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

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releases April 26, 2024

$9 USD or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Digipak case with audio CD and liner notes.

Includes digital pre-order of Rainmaker. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

shipping out on or around April 26, 2024

$12 USD or more

1.	Someday Baby
2.	Panda
3.	Humanity 03:54	info	buy track
4.	Rainmaker
5.	Are We There Yet
6.	Sosi B
7.	Victime de la mode 03:07	info	buy track
8.	Times Getting Tougher
9.	Ever Since The World Ended
10.	Sweet
11.	So Long

about

The original idea for Rainmaker was to throw a party in a Paris recording studio in honor of my 80th birthday. I saw it as a way to celebrate the survival of many things, including myself, a life without borders, and my friendship with so many musicians abroad.

I imagined that it would be a blues record, so I began by writing some original blues songs and revisiting some of my favorite classic blues too. But as often happens, what we discover is not necessarily what we were looking for, and in this case I found myself writing songs that felt dystopian, not all of them traditional blues forms, and not what you might imagine as “party music”.

By the time we finished recording at Studio de Meudon with new and old friends from America and France, the record had found its own sound. Somewhere between tragic and celebratory, shaggy and polished, broken and healed, I guess you could say that Rainmaker really is all about surviving in the modern world. - Ben Sidran, March 2024

credits

releases April 26, 2024

All songs written by Ben Sidran / Bulldog Music except “Ever Since The World Ended” (Mose Allison / Audre Mae Music), “Times Gettin’ Tougher” (Jimmy Witherspoon / Belwin Mills Music Ltd.) and “Victime de la mode” (Ben Sidran, James Cooke / Bulldog Music).

Ben Sidran: piano, organ, vocals
Leo Sidran: drums, organ, guitar (“Ever Since The World Ended,” “Are We There Yet,” “Someday Baby”), vocals
Billy Peterson: bass (“Someday Baby,” “Ever Since The World Ended,” “So Long,” “Sweet,” “Humanity,” “Are We There Yet”)
Max Darmon: bass (“Rainmaker,” “Victim,” “Panda,” “Sosi B,” “Times Getting Tougher”), vocals (“Victim”)
Romain Roussoulier Ross: guitar (“Rainmaker,” “Pan Perdu,” “Times Getting Tougher,” “Victim,” “Sosi B”)
Rodolphe Burger: guitar (“Humanity”), vocals (“Humanity,” “Are We There Yet”)
Rick Margitza: saxophone (“Someday Baby,” “Alice”)
Olivier Ker Ourio: harmonica (“Are We There Yet,” “Panda,” “So Long,” “Ever Since The World Ended”)
Andy Narell: steel drums (“Panda”)
Denis Benarrosh: percussion (“Someday Baby,” “Are We There Yet,” “Victim de la mode,” “Panda,” “Cool Baba Do,” “Rainmaker”)
Camille Marotte: vocals (“Victim de la mode,” “Humanity”)
Michael Leonhart: trumpet (Sosi B)
John Ellis: saxophone (Sosi B)
Mike Mainieri: vibraphone (So Long)

Artistic production by Ben and Leo Sidran
Recorded by Julien Basseres and Aurelien Marotte at Studio de Meudon (assisted by Camille Marotte)
Additional recording by Gordon Davidson at Abbey Road Studios, London (assisted by Neil Dawes) and by Hector Coulon at Electric Poodle Stoodles, Brooklyn

Mixed by Leo Sidran at Electric Poodle Stoodles, Brooklyn
Mastered by Julien Baserres at Studio de Meudon