Rainy Taxi Lyrics

This evocative, meditative instrumental was recorded in between Up The Downstair and The Sky Moves Sideways, as a new track for the Staircase Infinities mini album. This was a limited edition 10" vinyl release on the Dutch label Lazy Eye (now reissued as part of a 2CD set with Up The Downstair). Staircase Infinities featured many mostly outtakes from Up The Downstair and re-recordings of older Porcupine Tree psychedelic extravaganzas - "Rainy Taxi" however, explored quite another style. Steven: "At the time I recorded "Rainy Taxi" I was listening to a lot of Krautrock. I can clearly hear the influence of the organdriven 'kosmische' souns of Ash Ra Tempel and Klaus Schulze. I still love this kind of music". The resulting piece was unline any other Porcupine Tree history: a lonely, luminous and lovely organ study, delicately emotional and detached. Steven would later explore this strand of music in greater depth via a seperate project - IEM, which borrowed its name from the Incredible Expanding Mindfuck myth of early Porcupine Tree.