Rain On Bamboo was founded in 1992 by Ingo Ito as an open band project with varying musicians.
After the basically pop-orientated music of Bamboo Industry, Rain On Bamboo shifted to a different, rather "avantgardish" style of music and the tracks for their first album "Sleep & Poetry" were influenced by artists like Brian Eno, King Crimson, David Sylvian or Ryuichi Sakamoto.

There was much space for improvisational performances within the loose framework of the songs and that can be heard throughout the whole album, especially in songs like "Viking", "Painted By Eisen" or "Reading, Writing And Tying Poem-Slips To Bamboo".
The lyrics of Ingo Ito were influenced by romantic poets like P.B. Shelley or John Keats as well as by stories of Rudyard Kipling and the recording approach to the whole album was regarded as a piece of art in itself with the music painting a colourful picture for the listener´s own imagination.

The contributions of the musicians were a vital part in this concept and luckily the whole studio sessions had a playful and free of bounds athmosphere for everybody.

Although the album was released on CD in 1994 and did quite well in the shops and radio, there was unfortunately not enough money at hand to do a tour or at least some concerts.
Besides, the musicians had already started new projects soon after the end of the recording session - like Gabriel Le Mar, who founded his own projects, the Saafi Brothers and Aural Float, or Hans Schumann (Flucht nach Vorn, Mad Romeo), who joined the Geschwister Pfister team. Saxophone player Lorenz Allacher joined the german band Rosenstolz for live concerts and Susa Lie started to work as an editor for visual effects in film.
Ingo Ito was doing the "Bodega Bohemia" recordings in Brussels with the german synth-band Camouflage and the pre-recoding work for Camouflage´s next album "Spice Crackers".

There were only two Rain On Bamboo public appearances. The first one was a full playback performance on Deutschewelle-TV in Berlin and the second one a stage performance at a rather dubious music-festival in the Ukraine. For this half-playback presentation Ingo Ito was joined by bass player Susa Lie and Camouflage´s Heiko Maile on keyboards.

Rain On Bamboo´s 2nd album "Suburban Skirmish" was nearly completely recorded by Ingo Ito on his own as a multitrack studio album, due to the lack of time of the originally wanted fellow musicians.
Only the basic recordings for two songs were recorded as a three-piece band with Ito on guitar, drummer Sven Küster (Legendary Golden Vampires, Space Kelly) and bass player Lisa Wicklund (7th Heaven, Kuusimäki).

The album was completed in Hamburg at the Camouflage studio and Heiko Maile added some sounds from his famous old-fashioned synthesizer collection.

The songs were about the little stories you can often read on the final page of a newspaper - stories about serial killers, sex-maniacs, legendary (but meanwhile forgotten) movie actors, VooDoo priests and so on.
"Suburban Skirmish" was released on CD in 1996, but didn´t caught as much attention in the press and with the audience as "Sleep & Poetry" had done.

In 1997 the whole project was closed. 10 years later In 2007 Ingo Ito did a re-mastering of "Sleep & Poetry". Two other songs were added and the overall sound was improved, making it an album still worthwhile listening to.

You´ll find more information about Rain On Bamboo "Sleep & Poetry (Remastered)" here.

There will be more Remixes of the 2nd album Suburban Skirmish done later this year and eventually a Remix album will be available.

The first release of these Remix songs called "Some Satellites" is now available.