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At the halfway point of the year, we have a clear winner for best album title thus far. Raveena’s Where Butterflies Go In The Rain is a stunningly poetic and thought-provoking title. The sentiment becomes even more wonderful and deep when Raveena explains its origin. As she told Sage Bava and I at an inspiring hour-plus lunch in Pasadena Raveena was on a hike when she heard the voice of her unborn child ask where butterflies go in the rain. When you talk to the magical, mystical Raveena it all makes sense. There is a luminescent beauty to the way she sees the world. Sit her down with the equally magical Bava and you have a conversation that goes from meditation to Simon & Garfunkel to Plato and duality. One that also touches on meeting MIA in the jungles of Jamaica, Sade, Sinead O’ Connor and more. This was a profound meeting of the minds, one that covers what it means to be an artist, and, more importantly, a thinking, feeling human in 2024.
Sage Bava:
I feel like you’re so poignant on really capturing and creating a world and I’m sure a lot of that came from the space that you were in for these different projects, both inside and outside. So, I’m curious how your space inspired this and the whole process of this album and how it differed from your past and how it has evolved.
Raveena:
I started working on the album two years ago, like summer of 2022. I remember the day it kicked off, there was this internal switch. I had just gone on a really hellish tour where $47,000 of equipment was stolen from us. It was insane. Very taxing tour, I got really sick. I was in a place of stewing and feeling bad for myself. I went on this vacation, and I met one of my idols in deep Jamaica, like four or five hours from the airport, I met MIA in the jungle one day. We had a two-hour conversation about music, nobody is at this hotel. There’s like three of us. I walk into the breakfast room and she’s like, “Raveena?” I’m like, “Why do you know who I am?” Then, it was beautiful. It started raining really heavily and I remember the feeling of the whole thing beginning and I remember the feeling of what the music had to feel like because it was just this whole clarifying experience. So, then I went and wrote the first song of the album, which is “Every Color.” Then it kicked off a deep routine towards life. I just became very dedicated to this specific routine that has only gotten more intense over time. I became dedicated to meditation, to daily nature time, to writing songs and practicing music in this constant way so that my whole life is dedicated to flow and spirit. I think that was the change, I was becoming much less attracted to what was happening in the outside world and any chaos happening around. More like, “If I can keep my internal rhythm great, that’s the most important thing.” Now it has turned into hours of meditation a day. This intense vipassana practice every month. Practicing for hours in the morning, just becoming as much of a vessel for spirit as I can.
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