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The Rain Dogs
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The Rain Dogs. #minimalist #soundscape #prog #ambientmusic Music project of Gareth Bouch - @garethbouch.bsky.social

Bandcamp:
https://the-rain-dogs.bandcamp.com
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Fell in love with this song the instant I first heard those opening chords. A beautiful piece of industrial romanticism. (Go and Google the lyrics).

youtu.be/9IYDZ9spY3c
Steel River
YouTube video by Chris Rea - Topic
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December 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Have a feeling I’m going to be listening to “Shamrock Diaries” on the train tomorrow.
garethbouch.bsky.social Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 2d
Ah damn. Terribly sad news.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d
Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74
December 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Happy Solstice. Appropriate listening for today... "Days of Twilight" from @theraindogs.bsky.social album "Midwinter".
Enjoy 🙏
the-rain-dogs.bandcamp.com/track/days-o...

#wintersolstice #solstice #happysolstice
December 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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One of my favourite @theraindogs.bsky.social tracks. So evocative of this time of year. Ultra-minimal fretless bass meanderings from the excellent @ianhalst.bsky.social with sparse, subtle organic textures and atmospherics from me.
the-rain-dogs.bandcamp.com/track/in-the...
December 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Treat to self ❤️
#talktalk #markhollis
November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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One of my other favourite snippets from Ben Wardle's excellent biography of Mark Hollis is this about Polydor boss David Munns' thoughts on hearing "Laughing Stock" - an album I love to the moon and back, but which is apparently not to everyone's taste... 🤣

#talktalk #markhollis
By early April it was complete and a cassette was biked over to David Munns at Polydor. Brown remembers Hollis taking a call in the Wessex control room from the Polydor boss. Putting the receiver down, he turned to deliver Munns's verdict to the production team: "I can't stay in the same room as that album."
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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ICYMI: "From Abydos To Dendera" Another collaboration between bassist @ianhalst.bsky.social and keyboardist @garethbouch.bsky.social - Grooves, soundscapes, ramblings and improvisations loosely inspired by travels in West Africa and Egypt.
the-rain-dogs.bandcamp.com/album/from-a...
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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The two @The_Rain_Dogs ‘Generative+’ albums “Abstraction” and “Signals Sounds And Spaces” are available now on #bandcamp And the massive 3 hour 3 album set - Flow | Still | Drift - from the “Abstraction” sessions is available to VIP subscribers.
the-rain-dogs.bandcamp.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Treat yourself. Get in the warm, turn down the lights, pour yourself some red, and wrap your ears around this…
the-rain-dogs.bandcamp.com/album/midwin...
#postrock #ambient #minimalist #electroacoustic #soundscapes #electronica #drones #loops #generative #christmas #midwinter #solstice #prog
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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ICYMI: "The Ebb And The Flow".
A collection of ambient and minimalist pieces, inspired by local seascapes.
Listen or buy on @BandCamp
the-rain-dogs.bandcamp.com
#ambient #minimalist #electroacoustic #piano #improvisation #soundscape #experimental #electronica #bandcamp
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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If you fancy something bigger, darker, proggier, and downright unsettling compared to our latest releases, do check out “HAWKSMOOR”

the-rain-dogs.bandcamp.com/album/hawksm...

#postrock #industrial #prog #hawksmoor #occult #peterackroyd
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Playlists of our music on #Spotify

Dark and Intimate
open.spotify.com/playlist/6Nt...

Electroacoustic and World
open.spotify.com/playlist/0ZJ...

Electronica
open.spotify.com/playlist/5AU...

Piano based
open.spotify.com/playlist/00H...

Ultra Minimalism
open.spotify.com/playlist/1nm...
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Thanks to music distributors DistroKid, you can now find us via many online distributors.
The key ones being...

iTunes
music.apple.com/gb/artist/th...

Spotify
open.spotify.com/artist/7MfpN...

Youtube Music
music.youtube.com/channel/UCx4...
November 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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New lock-screen ❤️
#spiritofeden #talktalk #markhollis
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Thanks for both the purchase and the comments! 🙌

Enjoy 🙏
ajarchibald.bsky.social ajarchibald.bsky.social @ajarchibald.bsky.social · Nov 24
@theraindogs.bsky.social @garethbouch.bsky.social I'm digging this on bandcamp and especially liked Not all Who Wander so bought the digital.
Sprit of the River gave me real Pat Metheny vibes in the best way.
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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@theraindogs.bsky.social @garethbouch.bsky.social I'm digging this on bandcamp and especially liked Not all Who Wander so bought the digital.
Sprit of the River gave me real Pat Metheny vibes in the best way.
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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I’ve been unable to write / play / compose for almost a year now, but I’m okay with silence. Thanks in a large part to this astonishing guy…
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Re-reading Ben Wardle’s excellent “Mark Hollis - A Perfect Silence” and once again the boss of Polydor’s reaction on hearing “Laughing Stock” makes me cackle.

PS: It’s a quite extraordinary, brilliant album. (Although clearly not for everyone 😆)
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Probably my contention that the snare drum on “Ascension Day” is the most gorgeous sound ever recorded.
But that could only be on grounds of geekery / nerdism - because it’s 100% correct.
arrogantade.blacksky.app Arrogant Young Blood @arrogantade.blacksky.app · Nov 17
If you were running for public office which of your tweets/skeets would be the one to tank your candidacy?
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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#Hiraeth
Available on #Bandcamp
the-rain-dogs.bandcamp.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Also on #Bandcamp
the-rain-dogs.bandcamp.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
theraindogs.bsky.social
An hour of piano improvisations with a few judicious edits and overdubs.
Buy/stream here...
the-rain-dogs.bandcamp.com/album/hiraeth
#Hiraeth
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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They’re not “fireworks” they’re just massive explosives.
And they terrify pets, wild animals, and also even many humans.
I absolutely despise the people filling the night with such obscene, extreme noise.
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I once mentioned this in a Facebook group, and the actual engineer on the album, Phill Brown, chimed in and explained exactly how he’d mic’d up the drum kit - which for a musician like me is an amazingly kind and cool thing to do. Legend. 🙌❤️
garethbouch.bsky.social Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · Nov 2
Also - the snare drum on “Ascension Day” is one of the most gorgeous sounds in the world is a hill I would die on.
garethbouch.bsky.social Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · Nov 2
Had to do a bunch of design work this afternoon, and decided to do whilst listening to “Spirit of Eden” and “Laughing Stock” (in that order).
Absolutely sublime. Masterpieces, both of them.
November 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM