A story in music - follow Kishori the Star Child's visit to Earth as traced by The Rain Garden here as a largely acoustic trio. Visit the Reflecting Pools, and the Cavern of the Dreamers and hear the ritual of the Sky People.

10th anniversary concert finds the band in a wild improvising mood with addition to the Rain Garden trio of a free jazz sax/flute player and an electric guitarist.

The best of The Rain Garden's recordings from their UK tours in atmospheric venues such as ancient churches and deep wine vaults.

4 & 5 piece group. a mountain of instruments, a more percussive sound, and an underlying ritualistic feel.

The Rain Garden's first digitally recorded release. An atmospheric classic. A strong mystical atmosphere flows through the whole album.

October 2009
Downloads & Hear whole albums online
On all of The Rain Garden's albums (except "India") you can now hear the whole albums online - click on the covers above, and play the widget player on each page.
All those albums can now be downloaded - hit download on the player widget - we've set an amazing low price to start this off - name your price! ($5 minimum to cover our costs) - downloads are available in a number of formats and payable using paypal and when you pop them on your ipod the artwork should appear too. Go get them!

Closer to the Flame, Practical Candle Magic and India should be available on iTunes very soon.

September 2009
1. India CD out now
The Rain Garden's first album in 10 years is fnished and will be due out in a month or so. Entitled India it is part of Paradise Music labels Spiritual Journeys of the World series and traces a journey across India starting and ending at the Ganges. India finds The Rain Garden as a duo again, which is how they started out 24 years ago.

Chris Conway is active in many genres of music – Celtic, world music, electronic, jazz fusion, singer-songwriter and more. His connection with Indian music began when he studied the sitar in the 80s. He has been in Indo-jazz band Jazz Orient (also known as Re-Orient) for 18 years with sitar master Baluji Shrivastav with whom he has recorded 5 albums. He has also worked with violin maestro Dr L. Subramanium, tabla fusionist Talvin Singh and toured with the Pushkala Gopal & Unnikrishnan dance company.

Carl Peberdy studied sitar under Dharamvir Singh, and classical Indian vocal from Kumar Shaswat, Sanchita Pal and Pandit Ajay Pohankar, and studied at Dartington College of Arts and the Birmingham Conservatoire (Bmus Raga Sangeet). Has regularly performed both as a solo sitar player and with traditional Indian dance ensembles, devotional groups and many fusion ensembles. He has also designed and constructed his own unique stringed instruments.