RAIN DOG – CLOVEN
Title: Cloven
Genre: Music Video
Year: 2014
Duration: 03:17
Format: 16:9, Full HD, Colour
Sound: Stereo
Premiere: EARMILK (United States & Canada)
Links: EARMILK
Creative Direction: Gordon Gieseking, Linda Kugler, Christian Limber
Director: Gordon Gieseking, Christian Limber
Cast: Linda Kugler
Camera: Gordon Gieseking, Christian Limber
Montage: Christian Limber
Production: Project Mooncircle, HHV
Year: 2014
Musician: Rain Dog (London, UK)
LP: Two Words
Artwork: Felicia Simion
Guests: Robot Koch, BigsonTomika, Sam Rogers.
Label: Project Mooncircle, HHV
Year: 2014
Links: HHV
About Rain Dog
Having originally studied as an artist, Rain Dog has spent recent years experimenting with production software, building speakers, composing music for indie shorts and making beats out of various small bedrooms scattered across the north of England. 2014 saw him release his debut album ‘Two Words’ through Project Mooncircle, garnering him widespread praise throughout the electronic music scene. With overwhelming support across the BBC Radio networks, XLR8R, Vice, Hyponik and having been featured on Tru Thoughts edition of Label Love, he continues to fly from strength to strength. Ever-evolving and developing his lowslung melodic compositions he finds inspiration in the most unlikely of places, leaving his next moves a thing of excited anticipation. Text: Project Mooncircle
About Project Mooncircle
Project Mooncircle is a Berlin based label and creative collective operating in the left-field sphere of electronic music. Originally established in 2002, its diverse back catalogue is one of no musical boundaries. Today much of the label’s output focuses on the fusion of organic and electronic music. With a heavy emphasis on artwork and design, the label prides itself on the curation of original ideas and vision.
Acting as an official label of hhv.de and parenting two sub-labels – dub techno imprint Project Squared and both blog/label Finest Ego, specializing in experimental beat music. In an ever changing music climate Project Mooncircle continues to develop and welcome new sounds of universe. Text: Project Mooncircle
About „Two Words LP“
For Samuel Evans, or Rain Dog, creating this album was a vast experiment to combine different attempts of blending more traditional elements of song writing and composition with the more contemporary influences of modern electronic dance and bass music, all within the confines of his computer and chair…
Being compelled by melody and variation, Rain Dog, by his own admission, never had much talent for songwriting in terms of lyrics. To circumvent this, however, he focuses on creating a narrative within the music through the combination of synth work and samples. He starts with anything that sparks an interest or emotion in him – Tom Waits, Joni Mitchel, Ella Fitzgerald, Portico Quartet and moments from movies, samples like these usually work as a foundation for the tracks. He then adds layers of unique and organic synth sounds (a notion he finds quite interesting when working entirely from a digital platform) before eventually completing the production with the beat. He likes his music like a nice pie – warm, hearty, and crusty. Text: Project Mooncircle
