Rain Song by Benjamin Kamphaus

I first wrote Rain Song just over 25 years ago, during my first semester of undergrad, when I was still a music composition major. Appropriate to that time and place, it's a short percussion ensemble piece (because percussion was my performance discipline). For the original recording and performance, now lost to time, I played vibraphone and one of the music school grad students conducted.

I've played off and on with different approaches to providing an adequate mockup for this song over time, but this recent take is the first one I've been happy enough with to release. The only substantial difference between this and the first recording, apart from the use of sample instruments, is the lack of a second snare playing a brush scraping pattern.

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