Talk To Me Like The Rain
Eureka Waters, the project of pianist and singer Michael Wouters, puts a steady request in a single's title, from an artist whose bio refuses a genre box.
Talk to me like the rain.
The title asks for something before a note plays. Not louder. Not sweeter. Steady: the kind of talk that keeps falling whether anyone answers or not.
It is the name of a single, 'Talk To Me Like The Rain', from Eureka Waters, the project of pianist and singer Michael Wouters. On the artist's own music page it sits between the remastered trio single 'In The Blink Of An Eye' and another single, 'I'll Take It From Here'.
To read a title like this, start with how he says he writes. His bio puts the method plainly: "love, life, relationships, politics, the current (dire) state of the world, anything can and will be converted into a song."
The same page says he works "without specific stylistic boundaries," with the music resting "Under a warm blanket of jazz, soul, funk, folk or pop." Playlist editors like a box with a label on it. His bio declines to supply one.
The road behind that openness is long. He has performed as a solo jazz pianist, as a singer-songwriter and as a keyboard player in local and international bands, and he played Rhodes, piano, clavinet and synth on four songs from Reggie Parker's album 'A True King'. His bio traces a route by way of New York and Los Angeles to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where he now commutes between the two and works as a music producer and musician.
This year brought a new chapter. The trio's page describes it: the Eureka Waters Trio, piano and vocals with Itaiguara Brandão on double bass in New York and Christiano Galvão on drums in Rio de Janeiro, recording online. The page names what the trio is after: "musical interaction, space, harmonic freedom and musicians listening and responding to one another in service of the song." 'Define Love', released October 16, 2026, is described there as a reflective vocal jazz ballad about heartbreak, regret and the hope of beginning again.
Listening and responding: that is the thread the title pulls on. Rain does not argue, and it does not hurry. As a reading, 'Talk To Me Like The Rain' is a title for anyone who wants to be spoken to slowly, at the end of a day that ran too loud, by someone willing to keep going until the room settles.
A trio Christmas album follows on November 18, 2026, with newly written songs beside seasonal classics. Before that, there is this single and its quiet ask.
Keep talking. The rain does.
“Playlist editors like a box with a label on it. His bio declines to supply one.”
