Sunday, September 30, 2018

Raytracer - Simulated interaction

What do you say about a band that has more than two songs about anime?
I wind up here asking myself a lot of questions, but it isn't that I need an answer--I just believe in the power of asking.  So what do you say about purpose, intention, and agony--these are the milky cascade of swirling colors and light that swim in their own solution to produce an optimistic defeat that frames the music of this young local band.  Formed in rag tag style of so many Memphis made groups, Raytracer has found a purpose and vision of communicating deep grief and profound longing in a disarmingly upbeat and frenzied fashion.

Raytracer demands of you, contests with your solitude, answers all questions to say that it's important to love, that you are allowed to be afraid of loss.  I never want to lose this feeling, that pushing of sound and solitude that penetrates deeply into the great fear of being alone.  I want to sing along forever, remembering those times when the words told me I was thought of, remembered, immortalized (if only for seconds.)  Enjoy, and reflect.