This is a weird one to me. I’ll explain why after the introduction. SAM is Marcin “Sam” Kaczmarek from Poland, and he uses guitar, loops and effects to create a noisy, bluesy, avantgardistic style of music that does or does not fit Vital Weekly. I don’t know. But while listening, I was struck by the minimalism of the composition. It reminded me a bit of Hugo Race and other swamp-induced guitar heroes from the past and the soundtrack of Paris Texas, which Ry Cooder wrote. Now, Race and Cooder aren’t names you see a lot in Vital Weekly, but as it is part of my personal background, having listened to swamp blues in the past and being a movie aficionado… Well, because it’s on Inner Demons, I’m just doing it.
But having written all of this, I’ve already mentioned most of what I can say. “No Sign of a Rainbow, But It’s Still Raining” is an 18-minute soundtrack for an unwritten movie about a guy sitting near the water, maybe holding a fishing rod without bait because he doesn’t want to catch anything. Listening, I get the hopelessness of that situation.
As SAM said in the promo text about constant rain and getting wet: “Then there is hope that the rain will stop, the sun will come out, and a rainbow will appear. So, everything will change, and it will be wonderful. But for now, it’s wet, and you’re waiting…” I missed that ‘hope’, but for a soundtrack, this is an excellent depiction of the moment before Hope enters stage left.
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