What is "raindance"

Raindance may refer to:

• Rain dancing
• Raindance Communications, a US company that provides online meeting, web conferencing and teleconferencing services
• Raindance Film Festival and Film School
• Raindance (Transformers), a fictional character
• Raindance (Clark Datchler album), 1990
• Raindance (Gryphon album), 1975
• Raindance (rave), British Rave event organisers
• Raindance Foundation, an early video art group and public access cable pioneer
• RainDance Technologies, an American company founded by Jonathan Rothberg

Raindance is a progressive rock album by Gryphon, originally released in 1975 by Transatlantic, catalogue number TRA 302. It is the penultimate Gryphon album, and the last to include contributions from guitarist Graeme Taylor.

The album was produced by Gryphon, and was co-produced and engineered by Richard Elen. "Down The Dog" was co-produced by Ritchie Gold. The album was recorded at Sawmills Studios, Cornwall during June and July 1975 except "Wallbanger" which was recorded on the Manor Mobile at Brian Goodman's P.S.L. Studios in London during October 1974, with engineer Phil Newall.

The original LP sleeve features illustrations by Tony Wright. Unusually for a Gryphon album, it contains a cover version (a pastoral rendering of The Beatles' " Mother Nature's Son").

Raindance are British rave event organisers. They were one of the best known rave names on the Rave scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Raindance is the debut album from English musician Clark Datchler.

Datchler originally left the successful group Johnny Hates Jazz in 1988 to continue his solo career after previously releasing several solo singles before the joining the group. He moved to Amsterdam and began work on his debut album.

The album featured some renowned musicians, including bass player Nathan East, drummer John "JR" Robinson and percussionist Paulinho Da Costa. Also featured was guitarist Dave Gregory of XTC. The album saw Datchler’s first environmental song, "Raindance" – one of several to follow.

The first single from Raindance was "Crown Of Thorns". It was released in Britain in 1990 but was not a success, only peaking at #100 for one week. This was the only appearance Datchler made in the UK chart. The Raindance album was released on Virgin Records in Japan shortly afterwards.

Some Japanese versions of the CD features the bonus track "Widow" which was b-side to "Crown of Thorns".

A selection of tracks were re-used for Datchler's following album "Fishing For Souls" as "Raindance" was only released in Japan. "Fishing For Souls" was never released until 2010 where it appeared on iTunes.