The final piece for this series! This is the background track for the Empress/Isis-Urania card. Of all this cards, this has the most transgressions, homosexual cults, terrorism, autocracy ... pretty amazing!

PS I had to change the original title because it was setting off all sorts of triggers, go figure ...

In another order of ideas, the card of the Empress signifies the door or gate by which an entrance is obtained into this life, as into the Garden of Venus; and then the way which leads out therefrom, into that which is beyond, is the secret known to the High Priestess: it is communicated by her to the elect. Most old attributions of this card are completely wrong on the symbolism—as, for example, its identification with the Word, Divine Nature, the Triad, and so forth. [Wikipedia, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Pictorial_Key_to_the_Tarot#III._The_Empress]

By Pamela Colman Smith - The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=138928470

Tarot-Rized: Elaborate Tropes of the Arcana

Tarot-Rized: The Uranian influence on Isis by the Cubic Stone

Tarot-Rized: The Uranian influence on the Cubic Stone

Rockambo is a bassist from Mount Pleasant, Washington, DC.

Since the pandemic, he's been writing compositions using MIDI instrumentation (and struggling with latency issues on slow computers). He takes equal parts inspiration from Palladium-era Latin jazz (https://www.facebook.com/groups/LFCE893/), vintage 70s jazz-funk (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv8l4QR862COAotwH_cw9wQ), 00s electronica (https://somafm.com/spacestation/), contemporary lo-fi (https://open.spotify.com/album/2j4Mjok0KmnQ2ENfWIpUKf?si=MuUDlZW9TAuziw5LLmFjvg), and some ethnic music from the countries where he's lived (https://blog.scuolaleonardo.com/2023/04/25/bella-ciao-one-of-the-most-famous-italian-songs-in-the-world-from-the-resistance-to-money-heist/).

Since he can't find his way around a sequencer, he breaks away from repetitive beat loop patterns and seeks to create more organic pieces. Having said that, he only knows how to use a few DAW platforms which are all primarily loop-based ... it's complicated.

All recordings are original compositions recorded using SoundTrap, (http://www.soundtrap.com), and Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org). More recently, he's been mastering tracks in Ableton Live Lite (https://www.ableton.com/en/products/live-lite/) and learning how to use MPC Beats (https://www.akaipro.com/mpc-beats) ... he bought some MIDI controllers ... There are no pre-recorded loops. If you are getting into composition, you should grab this (https://www.asio4all.org/).

MIDI is currently being played through an Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 keytar and with a regular ASDF keyboard and a mouse. Rad.

The mixes are low, so turn them up!

Jim Greif says his biggest influence is the Doogie Houser theme song by Mike Post (https://youtu.be/zE4M3hPut7E). 

Rockambo is fluent in neurodiversity and his music is neurodivergent-friendly.

All the appropriate influences are noted where possible. Contact him before using or distributing this material.

Some music-related books worth checking out:
"Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer" by Frank Trocco, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37535.Analog_Days
"How Music Works" by David Byrne, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13235689-how-music-works
"Just Kids" by Patti Smith, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341879.Just_Kids
"This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession"
by Daniel J. Levitin, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141565.This_Is_Your_Brain_on_Music
"Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk"
by John Doe, Tom DeSavia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25898106-under-the-big-black-sun