Solar Witcher – Shades of Orange EP review
Every track snapshots emotions that emerge as the day unwinds
Hello and welcome to 2012. Thank you for following this blog; I’d like to make this really simple for you and me. Are you the type of person who doesn’t really bother what music is being played anytime of your life? If yes, most probably you never bought an original music record, let alone looking for new music that fits your brainwaves, or being picky on playing the right music that suites your moods. Then you can be classified as part of Johnny and the generic public; i.e. you are no better than the cattle crowd who is good only at voting for the best celebrity hairstyle, or be the first to know who has been dating Jennifer Aniston. I don’t want to offend you in any way, but the truth hurts. You can stop reading this blog post now and navigate away through the internet to some celebrity gossip blog. It would be a waste of bandwidth and electricity if you continue, and a waste of your time. Well, it’s not that your time is really worth something, is it?
Still reading? Hope it is not out of curiosity but because you are into music. There is a reason why you are the chosen one; because you are the one who can understand what I am talking about in this blog post. Also, The EP I’ll be reviewing in this blog post is not for the masses. At the end of last year, going into this year, I had a great festive and holiday season where (obviously) excessiveness was the rule of the day, especially when it is about alcohol. Touching back reality, you realize how much was wasted over ten or fifteen days of festive season, and being in love with mother earth, you start thinking green in more than usual mode. Being in this green mood and browsing through my email, a specific artist name attracted me; Solar Witcher.
As much as his name is green, so is his music. It puts you in a shade of blue and green world, where nature and ocean meet, and people dance naked. We are talking about electronic
lounge-type of music here, music to chillax, and to help you get all philosophical, depending on your surroundings. I am not really the philosophical type of person, but from time to time everyone needs to sit down and think what they are up to. Sometimes even some good or bad experience in life puts you in an all philosophical mood, and so does music. I am sure that when you listen to some specific tracks, they remind you of something, be it good or bad. No need to be shy, from time to time everyone gets a little bit philosophical; just check out what happens at funerals! At each funeral, everyone is as good as an ancient Greek philosopher, philosophising about the life of he or she who passed away. The instrumental music Solar Witcher presents us with in this debut EP ‘Shades of Orange’ is amazing and relaxing; dreamy electronica and ambient gem with bright, yet soothing melodies that infiltrate your brain atoms and excite those electrons which are going round in circles around the atom’s nucleus.
Over the last four years I’ve written well over hundred music reviews, but I couldn’t have explained the music in this ‘Shades of Orange’ debut EP better than Solar Witcher himself. Even though I really enjoyed this EP, I was in a little bit of a dilemma; what should I write? So I sent an email to Solar Witcher and he replied with the following:
“Shades of Orange” EP is centred around one day story. Every track snapshots emotions that emerge as the day unwinds. My favourite movies were a great source of inspiration for me. Some of the tracks were made with absolutely different framework in mind – I wrote a tune about being high on painkillers after surgery and it eventually became “Sleepover”; “Touching Water” image appeared in my head, however, when I was actually swimming in the rain.
Definitely couldn’t have said it any better. Even though the above is coming out of the creator’s own mouth, this is not twentieth century marketing; full of lies, gimmicks and China merch. This is the real thing. Check it out for yourself on Solar Witcher’s own bandcamp page, where you can stream and download the EP for free; such a good man he is! Enjoy it while sitting on the sofa in a room with faded lights, and a glass of Tuscan white wine. If instead you feel like watching a music video, you can also see Solar Witcher’s own work by adapting scenes from the film ‘Lost in Translation’ as a music video for his own track ‘Touching Water’.
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