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 disfigurement of our very being caused by the cynical nihilism of our age. The Sky-Veil and its Heralds first appeared as something other than a mere playground for consciousness and the psyche. They came forth 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 metaphysical definition, such as a concept or an abstraction we find inspiring to think over. The Sky-Veil opened as nearness to being itself—a clearing in the world offering wholeness in one’s temporality.
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This concert was never intended to happen. But spontaneity—through unanticipated gifts thrust upon them in the Veil— is often the creative catalyst that brings forth the best from The Heralds of the Sky-Veil.
The pilgrims of the Veil begged the Heralds to play—anything—something. Their concerts had become so renowned that, by popular demand, the shows became routine. It began with a simple performance by the core Heralds—Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera—who decided to honor Caelia and Mirelda, their close friends from the far side of the Veil. It was just for fun. However, the response was overwhelming, and they went on to make more music and perform another concert. Soon, Caelia and Mirelda joined the band and, over time, it evolved to what it is now—a captivating, enchanting power rock band with exponential—if not surreal— fan growth. No one can deny that The Heralds of the Sky-Veil is now an established cult legend.
The pilgrims wanted whatever the Heralds had, and they were not taking “no” for an answer. Aphrodite attempted to explain that new music was indeed in the works, but nothing had been prepared for the public. They just were not ready. Her attempt at politely brushing off the crowd’s request was ignored entirely. The pilgrims wanted the nearness of their presence, polished or not. They wanted the Heralds as “event,” and so, the Heralds delivered. Under a cloud of anxiety, with no formal costumes, and dressed only in their casual jeans and day-to-day leather jackets, they opened the hall, gathered their instruments, hit the lights, and walked on stage. The band gathered at center stage to decide on the sequence of songs. They separated to their places. The lights went down. 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 Heralds recently expanded the concert hall’s capacity to handle the larger crowds, yet it was still packed that evening leaving some desperate fans outside to watch on the monitors. Trepidation filled the anxious hearts of Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera 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 demands from them what it gives. They only needed to shimmer and gleam with the gifts received.
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, through all your visits to the Sky-Veil, you have attempted to categorize, define, or name “what” or exactly “who” the Heralds are, you’ve missed 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 resonate deeply across the ages as “goddesses” of mythology, 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, the hidden 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. One moment they walk the Golden Thread with pilgrims and the next they fill the concert hall with guitars roaring like lions and drums almost cracking the earth with thunder. Yet—they always shimmer before being itself.
The Heralds are shimmers and gleams emanating the beauty, wisdom, and majesty of temporality. They make present the past, hint at the future, and bring it all near to our hearts in the present. This nearness in 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. Receive it, and you will understand that whereas the Heralds cannot be figured out, they can draw us to that which heals souls lost in our nihilistic age.
