Golden Ravedays 9

Musically and emotionally, Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays, is a one sound autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and style that the artist has honed over a period of twenty years, musically, and forty-plus-years, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks stretching over 12 respective chapter albums, released on Hippie Dance sequentially during a one-year period. Where number eight of the series took it's listeners to outer space (TGR 008LP), number nine introduces two tracks that are an underwater celebration of all that is good and all that is sad. Side A features "Hiding". Imagine galloping sea horses pulling a Christmas chariot filled with dreams-come-true past enchanting mermaids, smiling sharks, waving tortoises, and nonplussed eels leaving a gifted blanket of mystical sound in their wake. "Hiding" stretches and breaks into many layers of listening love without enforcing one particular sound. Side B features "Flying". The piece is occupied by a sub-aquatic melody colored by whale sounds and the echoes of immersed guitar strings. "Flying" is not about complex development or diversity, but the weightless drifting of sounds that create a wonderfully hazy cloud to lose oneself in and fly, deliciously with the dolphins. Rest assured, the ending is speckled with whimsical chimes showers, paving the way for the softest of landings.