Jeff Greinke – Late Rain

Description

Tracks:

01 The Great Butterfly Migration
02 Late Rain
03 Deep River
04 Landfall
05 After the Flood
06 Homeland

Since the mid 80s, acclaimed ambient artist Jeff Greinke has been releasing compelling
albums of evocative and seductive atmospheric music. On Late Rain, his 25th release, four
featured musicians bring an abundance of acoustic instruments to Greinke’s electronic sound-
scapes for an extraordinarily textural, hauntingly ethereal, and wonderfully organic music that
is both ambient and alive.

Jeff Greinke • synths, samplers, processing
Heather Bentley • viola
Greg Campbell • drums, percussion, cornet, French horn
James DeJoie • clarinets, flute, alto sax
Bill Horist • electric guitar

Following 2024’s OCEANIC, where Greinke performed all the music himself, he envisioned a
follow-up release based around an ensemble. Inspired to create a vibrantly energetic group
sound, he enlisted four exceptionally skilled, intuitive musicians out of the Seattle new music
scene to take part in his sonic adventure. Greinke sent each song-sketches from which to work
out their parts. He later gathered everyone in a Seattle studio to record a live session of the
album. This was the ensemble’s first meeting; in not knowing what the others had been working
on, an excited anticipatory charge was felt in the room. Greinke created an enticing environment
for the players to interact within, working around his open-ended compositions. A spirited,
imaginative musical alchemy was captured during that session culminating in an album unlike
anything in Greinke’s catalog.

CD in 4-panel Digipak, limited to 300 copies • February 7 2025
Genres: Ambient, Electro-acoustic, Ambient Jazz