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Rainmaker is not only Ben Sidran's new jazz and blues album, it's also a survival manual for today's modern world. The original idea for Rainmaker was to throw a party in a Paris recording studio in honor of the Ben Sidran 80th birthday. Ben Sidran saw it as a way to celebrate the survival of many things, including himself, a life without borders, and his friendship with so many musicians abroad. Ben imagined that it would be a blues record, so he began by writing some original blues songs and revisiting some of his favorite classic blues too. But as often happens, what we discover is not necessarily what we were looking for, and in this case Ben found himself writing songs that felt dystopian, not all of them traditional blues forms, and not what you might imagine as “party music”. By the time he finished recording at Studio de Meudon with new and old friends from America and France, the record had found its own sound. Somewhere between tragic and celebratory, shaggy and polished, broken and healed, we guess you could say that Rainmaker really is all about surviving in the modern world. Rainmaker a beautiful musical party with: Ben Sidran, Leo Sidran, Rodolphe Burger, Rick Margitza, Olivier Ker Ourio, Michael Leonhart, Andy Narell, Billy Peterson, Max Darmon, Romain Roussoulière, John Ellis, Denis Benarrosch, Billy Peterson …