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Rocco DellaNeve - composer, producer, recording/mix engineer, vocals, keys, synths, bass, drum programming. 

Kevin Urso - Guitar

Matt Grote AKA OGRE - Artwork

Kevin Blackler - Mastering
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LYRICS: 
You come around with your bowl of stars 
Seeking donations so that you can afford your life on mars
But they’re hardly ours to be giving

All and All a pretty good day
Got a message from mom saying she’s gonna be ok
Despite the global fight on the blue planet you left so long ago 
So that you could steal the show.  

And you know you can come back home if you wanted to 
You could always make your way back down 
What’s so great about May anyways?
They’re all the same 
Cliché bouquet and a crimson escape

I shot the heavens too
A stupid thing to do
But when they laughed
They looked a lot like you  
You said you gotta be by yourself
But would you mind just taking me?

Off again
It's no use 
Always defending all of your self abuse   
It helps you slowly drown without water 

We never know what state you’re in 
Come burst through the walls 
When all of love you can't win 
Still-Well that's ok
You can try for it another day
Anyway
May's still a ways away.  

I see your image in the dust storm
It's the least you can do
Considering all we’ve all been through 
Come home
One more trip and you're a goner
You're slowly falling in and out of relevancy 
You’re just a castle in a fishbowl out to sea

Wakey wake
Which you will I get? 
Weighed all the options 
Opportunities to forget 
And then recall
Lots to be said about coming up at all  
You’ll scratch the surface yet 

Looks like the safest bet 
On your mark ready get set 
Go!

Mars In May

This song is about escapism and trying to merge the various personalities an artist ( and all of us really ) has to balance. The ego is constantly running away, bruised and battered for this or that. Here I am, feebly attempting to put myself back together.

Musically, I don't know what this sounds like. Fast space lounge? I know that it's different, and I like that. That's when some of the most interesting things are going to come about. I hope you like it.
lyrics
We've been living in the underground disguised
As a substitute for meaning in our lives
But it's getting hard to find a way
Getting kinda hard to find another way
Even after evolutionary war
We're still a generation's body sores
But it's alright by me
I still got a little bit of fight left in me

When it comes to cleaning up this mess
They'll say to hell with all the rest
Careful making all that noise
Or they're gonna make squeaky clean girls and boys
You can kick and scream all you like
God knows they love to fix a fight
Being free is a fallacy
And it's getting kinda hard to know the enemy from me
From me
From me
From me

Go on and get in line
And get your soul vaccine
You're just in time
We'll give you what you need
Come get your soul vaccine

What a gift to be self aware and yet
You gotta wonder if the gods don't have regrets
Whiny beads in their abacus
Lust to know more
But love to know less
Slowly pick their heads out of the sand
And await the fates to reprimand
If it's written so shall it be
Why re-write it just for little old me?
For me... Yeah
For me
For me

Come on and get in line
And get your soul vaccine
You're just in time
We'll give you what you need
Come get your soul vaccine

Go on and get in line
And get your soul vaccine
You're just in time
Hey, we'll give you what you need
Come get your soul vaccine
credits
released April 1, 2021
Music and lyrics- Rocco DellaNeve
Singing/Vocals- Rocco DellaNeve
Guitar (electric)- Rocco DellaNeve
Recording engineer- Rocco DellaNeve
Additional engineer- Rocco DellaNeve
Producer- Rocco DellaNeve
Mixing engineer- Joseph Secchiaroli
Bass- Joseph Secchiaroli
Guitar -(Solo) -Amit Peled
Guitar -(electric)- Dave Goodison
Drums: Steve Padin
Mastering engineerSteven Fallone

Official website roccoofthesnow.com
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Booking: ofthesnowmusic@gmail.com

Soul Vaccine

"Between Dreams" makes you feel like you're a time traveller bringing modern synth vibes into the 60's. It's psychedelic, yet has a nice pulse all the way through. It's about being caught in between worlds, not unlike how many of us have felt and are still feeling this past year. We've got one foot in reality and one in the unknown, unsure as to which to trust with our weight. It's overall a very calming, peaceful vibe-accepting even. Despite everything-right now is alright.

Between dreams
Dry as can be
Bells sound inside of me
And we wait for the sea
To come and bury me
And wash over reality

Between dreams 
I'm alive
But I'm not all there it seems

We hold up the mold 
Still the dance grows old
My head gets tired my hands are cold
And there’s salt on your tongue
Through all the deal is done
This bird had flown 
The song is sung

Between dreams 
I'm alive
But I'm not all there it seems

Between dreams 
I'm alive
But I'm not all there it seems

Between Dreams

"Between Dreams" makes you feel like you're a time traveller bringing modern synth vibes into the 60's. It's psychedelic, yet has a nice pulse all the way through. It's about being caught in between worlds, not unlike how many of us have felt and are still feeling this past year. We've got one foot in reality and one in the unknown, unsure as to which to trust with our weight. It's overall a very calming, peaceful vibe-accepting even. Despite everything-right now is alright.

Between Dreams (Instrumental)

This song is about the eternal battle of the ego.

Gotta Wonder

12/03/2018

The song talks to how exhausting it can be at times to go down rabbit hole after rabbit hole, only to come back feeling like you're right back where you started-in an uncertain world that appears to be crumbling all around you and getting crazier with each passing day. But then, it describes the joy in throwing your hands up and simply taking in the beauty of it all, ultimately falling in love with faith in the higher pattern. We all die in this form. Our energy will go somewhere, whether or not it will take with it any memory of this life's iteration will be the answer to the big riddle.

Big Riddle

I’m told there’s beauty, magic, wonder, divinity in the world. I believed it for a while. Now I’m having doubts. The song talks to how bleak things can start to look at times. Maybe I was wrong about us being able to manifest what we bold enough to know we want and deserve, maybe I was wrong about everything.
But just when you’re at your lowest, something or someone comes from out of nowhere to remind you that what you feel is correct. It reintroduces you to the path and with a new fresh energy too. It gives a nod to the idea of reincarnation as an example of a possible longer cycle or series of cycles necessary to be experienced in order to reach “heaven” or “Nirvana” or simply “understanding.” It could also be simply a love story. IS IT?

I’ve been told there’s a magic out there.
Well If there’s a spark of life still alive I’m dying to see
Cause I’ve been holding out for a miracle
But Emptiness is all that stares back at me.

So I keep me nose to the grindstone
And I hold my ear to the ground praying for a sound
Just as I’m bout ready to give it up
I realize that you’ve been here all along

I’ve been waiting a lifetime baby
and I don’t mind waiting a couple more
But it feels right now in the moment
Maybe I found out what I’ve been waiting for

Yeah I know it might seem totally crazy
But we owe it to ourselves just to check it out
And who knows the time may have passed us by
But if die, well I won’t wait to meet you again.

So we gonna feel it out and put your mind at ease.
We can shake it up. Be here now.
We just vibe it out the way we always do.
So put your worries away.
Tell me that it don’t feel good.
Let’s just play it out
And listen to the sound.
So go and live it up. Yeah!
credits
from Prime Mover, released December 21, 2018
Waiting a Lifetime (Rocco DellaNeve)
Rocco DellaNeve-Vocals, Piano, Prophet, Minimoog Voyager, Guitar, Bass, Beat Production
Joseph Secchiaroli-Guitar Steve Padin-Drums, Percussion

08 Waiting A Lifetime

Check my debut album "Prime Mover" here:  
https://linktr.ee/roccoofthesnow

I wrote most of this song in the back of a truck traveling through the hills of southern Thailand in 2015. I was pretty depressed at the time and needed to escape life for a while. Then, while hypnotized by the most beautiful landscapes I'd ever seen, gratitude began to well up inside of me and so did this melody. Even though it felt my life back home was in shambles, everything was exactly as it should be in that moment. 

Elation washed over me and this little ditty made me feel so good, I actually forgot all about my troubles...and the song. I equate this to how terrible I am at remembering the feeling of the bad times as soon as times are good again. I returned to the "land of smiles" in 2018 and the feeling and the song immediately came rushing back. I committed to finishing it as soon as I got back to New York City. Two years of touring later......and I finally made good on that promise. Better late than never! That's one wonderful aspect to being quarantined in your apt most of the year. 

My anxiety can be a real asshole at times, but this year I tried waking up every day and saying thank you for.....whatever pops into my head. I set the timer for five minutes and just let the stream of consciousness pour out. Time's always up before I'm done. 

I sincerely hope this song makes you happy. If you are deranged like me and tend to get a little nauseous with this much steadfast positivity, fear not, I promise more dark introspective nightmare's to come. It's still good to feel good sometimes though. 
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This wonderful video was created by Danny Rocha & Gregg Lawson. 
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Song Credits:
Written, produced and performed by Rocco of the Snow
Rocco of the Snow - Lead vocals, background vocals, organ, clavinet, piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitars, bass, engineering
Devin R. Flynt - Drumkit
Justin Rose - Drum recording engineer
Joseph Secchiaroli - Mix engineer
Steve Fallone - Mastering 
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I Give Thanks

This tune is a happy, hopeful song about changing your reality. I want to allow for different possibilities, but I'm also acknowledging how fickle I can be and how I don't know which I'll choose by the end of the week, or the song. 

LYRICS: 
Someday Soon
I'll drown all the moons to death
and write all new tunes for this new breath
 
There will be you and me
And all else will be just subtle scenery
in a world not meant to be seen. 
 
And you can choose a new fantasy
As for me I got a whole new way to be
I'm bound to change my mind over time
But at least not 'till the end of the week. 
 
Way back when
We'd have to defend our walls
From being broken by echoes rising.
 
Something about the way we'd pretend
Managed to suspend our love until this last end
But we were happier back then. 
 
And you can choose a new fantasy
As for me I got a whole new way to be
I'm bound to change my mind over time
But at least not 'till the end of the week.

Someday Soon

Rocco of the Snow is a New York City-based multi-instrumentalist & producer/engineer hailing from Buffalo, NY. In his music, you'll hear his Romantic era/Jazz sensibilities mixed with four-on-the floor dance grooves, funky key-basslines, analog synth-heavy production, and introspective bordering on self-indulgent lyrics, always coming together with the intention of holding melody to be paramount.  

He was raised on Radiohead,  Ben Folds Five, Brad Meldau, Sergei Rachmaninoff, & Jamiroquai, but later fell in love with contemporary artists such as Little Dragon, James Blake, Jack Garratt, Vulfpeck, Bibio and Grizzly Bear, to name a few.  He tours internationally on keyboards, bass and guitar. He writes, records and performs with several artists including Gin Wigmore, The Reign of Kindo, Todd Carey & Jackson Harris. He has also performed with Ginuwine, Jessie James Decker, Cody Simpson and is a founding member of the Buffalo-based band The Etchings. 

When he's not on the road, he scores music for films and produces for other artists.  Rocco of the Snow can be heard performing live all over NYC, either playing with friends or solo with his one man operation- sanging, banging on keyboards, doodling guitars, slappin da bass and squashing drums all at the same damn time. 

Philosophy: we are beings of frequency. As such, we strategically use sound and light in an effort to raise the collective vibration of the whole. We are designers of our own reality. As such, we aim to see how much heaven we can pull out of this earth. We are collectively deciding our future. So it's decided then-we're making it awesome!

ROCCO OF THE SNOW

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