“Beautiful stuff” – Zakia Sewell BBC 6 Music
“One of this year’s best surprises has been Soul Retrieval, the debut solo album from Janine Rainforth, best known as the lead singer and co-founder of seminal post-punk funk outfit Maximum Joy….”
It’s easy for listeners to sink into these lush sounds, but you can’t ignore the emotion suffused throughout for too long. Rainforth’s powerfully unadorned language feels like it wants to be understood, with certain lines repeating almost like mantras. There’s a hard-earned clarity and a generosity to the writing which is really affecting.”
Janine was interviewed by Cosmo Godfree about her debut solo album – Soul Retrieval (Ransom Note) link to the article
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“As Rainforth forges a new musical future, it’s important not to divorce it from her fearless and catalytic past.. Releasing these long-gestated ideas into the public sphere, and especially returning to the stage after over two decades, took some guts..” Geraint Davies – Crack Magazine
. Janine Rainforth …. the perfect non-singer, lightly gorgeous voice but no impulse to shake it around, just like it glide out…. Matthew Schnipper, The Fader
Original co-founder and front woman of post punk band Maximum Joy, Janine Rainforth returned to performing her music in public in 2014, after her music career was cut short following assault and trauma.
One of her first return live performances was supporting the Pop Group at Islington Assembly Rooms.
Janine records and produces her music mainly from her home studio in East London.
“Marrying digital technologies with found sounds and otherworldly vocals, she’s dabbling in ambient crescendos and synth-laden melodies to maximum effect.” Janine spoke to M Magazine
In 2015 Janine spearheaded the reforming of her band Maximum Joy with some original players and some new to perform at Simple Things, 2015 and went on to make a new Maximum Joy album released on her own label London Field Recordings in 2019. They are gigging – played Dimensions 2018 and the inaugural We Out Here 2019 .
Some tunes from Janine’s discography
“Rainforth’s new work comprises rich, blurry lullabies which flow sonorously through space, dripping searching keys over shuffling rhythms and, of course, Rainforth’s piercing but pining vocal. It’s a sweeping, ambient sound which recalls another strand of 80s alternative in the otherworldly ethereal wave of Liz Fraser’s work with This Mortal Coil, or even the contemporary avant-pop of Zola Jesus or Glasser. ” Geraint Davies – Crack Magazine
Janine’s writing on Substack link below
“(P.E.A.C.E.) feels like a celebration of togetherness ..sliding, airy vocals, lending a spooky quality to the tracks, like a ghost slipping in and out between worlds” Crack Magazine 7/10
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