Jeffrey Silverstein- "Trip Sitter"

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“Trip Sitter,” the newest track shared from Jeffrey Silverstein’s highly anticipated new album Torii Gates out April 16th from Arrowhawk Records, honors the role of a sober companion and conduit to reality and safety for those participating in psychedelics.

As Silverstein describes, "the goal is to 'hold space' - being physically, mentally and emotionally present without interfering or inserting yourself into someone's experience.

While making this song I thought often of close friends who have and continue to hold space for me, psychedelics aside. Folks whom I can sit in silence with comfortably for long stretches of time. I wondered if I'd done enough to return the favor. Here’s to holding more space for others in 2021.”

The single arrives with a companion animated music video created by Timothy Breen who provides his report on the visual feature to the instrumental track:

“When I stare up into the night sky I’m often aware of a cognitive dissonance between my emotional and logical experiences. I’m aware that time is a matter of perception. In the same way a giant rock face travels at a pace outside of our sensory abilities but displays all the signs of organic life, the universe bears the unmistakable quality of living. I want to speed up spacetime using the same tricks I have as an animator and see how the universe really moves. I imagine the the code of its natural energies is hidden somewhere between mathematics and psychic openness. Telescoping doorways or fractal carousels could propel us fluidly, compressing vast distances within a single step. Conveyor belts of light carrying our civilizations archives from one glimmering mineral to another. Perhaps we could evolve to see beyond our current limitations. Within our newly tuned senses the matter of the universe might appear as varied as the flora and fauna of the forests of earth. Space could be a fun place to explore. Something to sit with on these first trips out of our world.”

Purchase Jeffrey Silverstein’s new album Torii Gates out 4/16 via Arrowhawk Records.

David Walker