On “Salvage The Radiance,” he taps into that resonance. “There's a lot of emotional resonance in one's childhood home,” Ritger said. There, in the cold Pennsylvania winter when all around him the earth lay still and sleeping, when the home of his youth was on the verge of belonging to someone else, when he and his were themselves rootless, Carl experienced one of his most productive creative seasons in years. On the way, they spent the winter months helping Carl’s father move out of their longtime family home. A year into the pandemic, he and his r decided to uproot their life in Philadelphia and move west to Colorado. Written in the midst of great familial transition, this near-44 minute album is composed of sounds generated and captured at the artist’s childhood home in Exton, PA, just outside of Philadelphia. This time the music serves as a guide map, a thread running through the membranous spaces that separates here from there, and the life we build for ourselves from the one our families built. Like his first album on the label, “The Bone of Memory,” this piece marks a passage. “Salvage The Radiance” - Carl Ritger’s followup album for Going In - is an offering of grace in times of profound upheaval. Now is the time to discern what you bring to the other side. Here lies a threshold–a gateway into the unknown. In the uncertainty, you stop to take stock before pushing on. The voice calls again, though from which direction you cannot say. Everywhere the earth rumbles quietly on its axis, while the shadows of the past mill about - their whispers filling the air like the pitter patter of sprites. An enveloping darkness hides what lies ahead. A voice calls from the distance, her song carrying through a deluge of rain, beckoning you onward.
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