I hope that you'll have a pleasant experience with this album like I do. I just feel that there is so much pure energy from this album as a result of each musician working together perfectly. I always have the urge to bob my head, tap my foot or just shake my whole body to the rhythmic of the music as a reflex. Although it may be different for others who hear it, my body reacts to this album in a way that not very many other albums do. On a personal note, this album is probably an absolute favorite of mine. It would be safe to say that the album that this most resembles is Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, which also is recorded in the improvisational, stream of consciousness style that Peter Walker interprets through his guitar in Rainy Day Raga. Although Walker's guitar style is much akin to Sandy Bull and Robbie Basho's, this album is unlike any that either have made. Instrumentation includes Walker's guitar, a second guitar, tambourine, and a 12 string drone. Walker sets each piece up with a buildup, a climax and an eventual cool down, much in the tradition of the Indian raga. Walker creates what is stated in the liner notes as an 'American raga'. Peter Walker is a solo guitarist, rooted in the Eastern styling of Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar.
