Forever will be gone

I Make The Mistake- Mortal love

This song was recorded in one of the darkest moments of my life. And it helped me went through. Hope it will help you too.

Apocalypse

Alone

Behind the scenes- a collage of moments

This is from the Rocky Valentines upcoming full length 'Music On The Shelf' out on 7/18 via Velvet Blue Music . . . pre-order : cd/lp/cass  :  https://velvetbluemusic.com/

Music On The Shelf

3. The Rocky Valentines 'Ships Arrive'

see u in the summer

Interesting Suno 4.5 Cover of  https://soundcloud.com/arnegleason/thinkingsong2-2024-04-08-2240?si=2a8b96baca954a6fb0d6cd72d254ee7d

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Ocean in the sky, I would like to meet you there

Ronan Goron - drums, lead vocals, synthesizers, electric guitar, tamborine production
Valentina Tesorone - bass guitar, backing vocals
Vivian Clark - mastering
Ella Stewart - artwork

Ocean In The Sky

Watch the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u1cvlAHOuI

Lyrics

Lasered to sense,
Even Sir Rich gets moved
When perusing the world of poetic blues
Where articulated real meets perfection
'Found questionable thought to his atomic interjection

Softly, softly says Professor Neil
Let's take their hands when want meets zeal
Dawkins holds that military mind
New domination for human kind

Only truth,
Call out the lies.
There's enough for our youth in sciences prize
It's poetry this reality
Generalized, it's just wonderfully free

This Plato brain does wander away
I try and imagine all sides of all way
Then we connect with everyone
Changing minds doesn't matter
The door is open

Notes
Richard Dawkins is one of the greatest thinkers of our time and possibly the very best at articulating our reality as he honestly sees it. He fights ignorance with such pure truth I'd be scared to debate him on the spirit world .. But I would love to and I think there's a very real conversation to be had asking him how he fills the gaps in science about consciousness and his dismissal of spiritually and an afterlife given those limited explanations of our conscious world... Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and a wonderful author.

This song was inspired largely by Dawkins and his want, now to project what he sees as the purest of poetry... The truth about our existence. He is well worth a permanent rabbit hole along with his team mate Professor Neil Di Grasse Tyson an Astrophysicist.

So I guess this song is giving them a hand.

Reality in Poetry

Inbetween Spaces (video edit)

ROPE SECT's debut album is taking shape. 

In the meantime:
An isolated song - experimental and different.
Not on the album, not representative of the debut. 
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A reminiscence of a handsome youth.
An austere presence.
A forlorn future.
Where is the beauty?

Rope Sect - Handsome Youth

My aim with (neo)- psychedelia
Is to be free of formal song structures. 
To allow emotions, both dark and light, to express themselves and reveal deeper images and messages from the subconscious and from soul. (Soul inspired music btw is not always pretty and polite)
I like to create atmospheres in which to hang out for a time
No barriers so I can then hybridise with other genres
I'm open to everything from Bach to Billy Idol (excepting Strauss waltzes and fairground organs... however I'm open to persuasion)
Hopefully to surprise and to disorientate. To use minimalist repeating phrases which build and give a hypnotic vibe or groove
Psychedelia teaches us that there is no rush, it's not the end that matters it's the process of getting there, that is my true goal
But I also bear in mind the imperative to be relevant 
The late 60's early 70's gave us so many great musical gifts (Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa etc the list is very long) and I for one am happy to keep unwrapping them
I highly value improvisation and jamming (but I have a no noodling policy). Instrumental music has a vocabulary of emotions with which I'm always mindful that there is a story encoded. 
I always record the first take as this is where magic, beyond the mind, can instantly emerge. An out of key, "mistake" is redefined as an accidental note or a borrowed chord a "surprise" and can liberate the piece from predictability. A degree of disharmony and musical tension are often necessary within a piece so that the subsequent release into harmony and joy is a highlighted sense of relief and spaciousness 
It's not so much about striving for technical perfection, it's about first and foremost serving the song.
I love that a piece can literally emerge from the tone of a single note, lightly asking "I wonder where this will take me?"
This keeps me guessing and ever curious 
In musical flow states, I am sometimes transcended into subtler realms of spirit. I've met some of my muses there... it can be very ecstatic 
Life on this planet, when observed for long enough, consists of periods of challenge leading to more settled blissful states... but one can only ever acknowledge these and keep on moving through, cycle after cycle.
Sometimes the pain and the bliss are simultaneous.
Psychedelia is here to remind us, usually with a mixture of compassion and gentle non insistent wisdom, that we are all equally valid and as important as one another.
The generation of this music doesn't require me to be in any specific state, prior to playing, in order to engage with it.

Inbetween Spaces (video edit)

Chimera Riddle (alt rock and psychedelia)

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