David Rainger has a guitar CV to die for and is also a guitar FX pedal inventor (his Rainger FX line is winning admirers in Tin Pan Alley). Oddly (a word oft used in connection with Giant Jr), his father is a notable CBE and Emmy Award-winning inventor who created Ceefax, the best-known PAL/NTSC Systems Convertor and err… Satellite Broadcasting!
“The Short But Astonishing…” opens with what can only be described as a 10 second slice of cheesy, 80s, big hair glam metal guitar being inserted into Wall-E’s nether regions before meandering bizarrely through a landscape of generic vistas which border funk, electro, rock and dance.
It’s an album full of real-life notes, beats and sounds chopped up into Rainger’s unusual (but clearly quite happy) electro world which create a soundtrack that’s lush, cute, kitsch, darkly humourous, always surprising and fun but with a hard edge hidden inside it.
David (himself once a Reviews Editor for Melody Maker, Making Music and International Musician) has worked with a positively schizophrenic array of stellar turns and producers ranging from rockers Queen, David Bowie, Wishbone Ash and Rory Gallagher through Classical maestros Carl Davis, Henry Mancini, Placido Domingo and Ravi Shankar; he’s rubbed knobs with producers Trevor Horn, Stephen Lipson, Matt Wallace, Steve Levine, Michael Beinhorn and popped up - as a much sought after session guitarist - with Annie Lennox, S Club, Will Young, Rachel Stevens, Natalie Imbruglia, Geri Halliwell and Tina Turner. Delightfully, and almost as if to completely avoid any chance of ever being pigeonholed, he’s even hugged the left field with Bombay Dub Orchestra, Sly & Robbie, Baba Maal, Pop Will Eat Itself and UB40. Why, he even once took drugs with George Harrison!
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