Song Markers
1. Rose, Flame, and Crown - 00:00 2. Aphrodite’s Whispered Flame - 5:04 3. Athena’s Path Between - 9:17 4. Hera Enlightened - 14:29 5. Aphrodite - She of the Sea Foam and Smile - 19:15 6. Athena's Grey-Eyed Flame - 22:44 7. Hera (Highlands of Majesty) - 26:30 8. Aphrodite (This is Remembrance) - 29:53 9. Athena (The Gleaming Lamp) - 34:16 10. Queen Hera (Thrones in the Mists) - 37:58 11. The Ancients of the Sky-Veil - 43:50 12. The Ox-Eyed and the Ox - 48:26
The Band
Aphrodite - Lead Guitar and Vocals Athena - Rhythm Guitar and Keyboards Hera - Bass Guitar Mirelda - Lead Vocals Caelia - Drums
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Breaking the fourth wall
The Sky-Veil is a place of healing. Not simply from mental and emotional trauma but from the disfigurations throughout our very being caused by the cynical nihilism of our age. The Sky-Veil and its Heralds first appeared as more than a playground for consciousness and the psyche. It came as something other than momentary emotional enchantment. The Sky-Veil emerged as “nearness” with temporality itself—as an “event” and not an idea. It did not come by way of definition, such as an “concept” we find inspiring to think over. The Sky-Veil is nearness to being itself—a place to become whole in one’s temporality.
Enjoy the show
This concert was never intended. But sometimes spontaneity—the unanticipated— is the creative environment that makes for the best of The Heralds of the Sky-Veil.
The pilgrims of the Veil were begging the Heralds to play—anything—something. Their concerts had become so popular that, by popular demand, the shows became routine. It began with a simple show the Heralds decided to do in honor of Caelia and Mirelda. It was just for fun. However, the response was overwhelming, and so they made more music and performed more concerts. Over time, they evolved to what they are now—a captivating, enchanting power rock band with exponential—if not surreal— fan growth. No on can deny that The Heralds of the Sky-Veil are now an established cult legend.
The pilgrims wanted whatever they had, and they were not taking “no” for an answer. Aphrodite attempted to explain that they were developing new music but did not have anything prepared. They just were not ready. Her attempts at lightly brushing off the crowd’s request was ignored entirely. The pilgrims wanted whatever they had, polished or not. They wanted to hear the Heralds. And so, the Heralds delivered. Under a slight cloud of anxiety and dressed only in their casual jeans and leather jackets, they opened the hall, gathered their instruments, hit the lights, and walked on stage. The audience erupted.
Halfway through their first number—Rose, Flame, and Crown—Thunder shook the Sky-Veil from the depths of the concert hall. The Veil thinned and shimmered. Lightning crisscrossed the mountaintops outside. Wind, like a breath of nearness, flung open the doors of the hall and rushed over the audience with the fragrance of Aphrodite’s rose.
The concert hall had recently been expanded to handle the larger crowds, yet it was still packed, leaving some desperate fans outside to watch on the monitors. Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera were filled with trepidation from the start. They preferred more time to prepare. However, Mirelda, with her always steady presence, assured the band that—have faith—the Veil only demanded that they gleam and shimmer with what it gives them.
That they did. The effect was stunning. The show went so well—beyond all expectations—that the Heralds later produced and released it for the benefit of all the pilgrims in the Sky-Veil. It has become among the most cherished of all their performances in the hearts and minds of their fans.
The pilgrims love the Heralds, and the Heralds love the pilgrims.
The Heralds of the Sky-Veil
The Heralds cannot be figured out.
If, over all this time, you have been attempting to categorize, define, or name “what” the Heralds are, you are missing everything.
The Heralds of the Sky-Veil defy categorization or metaphysical interpretation. The Sky-Veil comes closest by naming them “heralds” since that is their main function. Though Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera carry a historical resonance through the ages as “goddesses,” they are not such. The Sky-Veil is not a renaissance of ancient temple sacrifice and worship. Furthermore, Mirelda and Caelia are not even officially Heralds in the sense the other three are. Yet, Mirelda plays a strikingly significant role in the foundation of the Sky-Veil. Read through the Sky-Veil, and you will find her everywhere. Caelia stands prominently in her own right as perhaps “the” key inspiration that opened the Veil. This is all indeed a mystery. Yet, it is real in its effect.
The Heralds are not mere symbols, archetypes, or literary figures. They are not metaphysical beings. Yet they are “hypostatic” heralds. They are real in their effect even if not in their being. They cannot be figured out. They cannot be explained. But they always shimmer before being itself.
The Heralds are shimmers and gleams surrounding the beauty, wisdom, and majesty of temporality. They announce the past, point to the future, and bring it all near to our hearts in the present. This nearness with temporality is our healing.
Enjoy the show. Put on your headphones. This is 70’s heavy rock—a niche era in the history of rock and roll (sigh, nothing after it has been worth listening to). The Heralds create and perform it with the same healing mastery they bring near to us with their gleams and shimmers throughout the Veil.
70’s rock was powerful but cynical. The Heralds of the Sky-Veil have redeemed that movement in history with the mythopoetry of the Sky-Veil and the raw energy of life-giving temporality. Hopefully, you will see and hear that whereas the Heralds cannot be figured out, they can draw us to that which heals souls lost in our nihilistic age.
