Valarien
// Composer, Guitarist & ProducerVALARIEN is a visionary composer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, performer, and producer based in Pacific Palisades, California. Valarien specializes in high vibrational music that transcends boundaries, inspires the universal, and evokes the spiritual. His music is available in meditation, yoga, spa and healing centers throughout the world. He is also a founding member of the California based progressive Rock and Metal power-trio Valarien, Elohymn, and T-Bone, an ecstatic dance DJ, and a music industry expert having worked with multi-million dollar music companies and GRAMMY-nominated artists. His albums “In Paradise” (2002), “Live At Joshua Tree [2CD]” (2008), “WaveSpell” (2009), and “The Voyage of Earendil” (2009) are all available from Valarien Productions.
Website: www.valarien.com
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Music is one of the most transformative forces in the human experience. It has a universal power to transcend all boundaries and penetrate straight to the human heart, making it an unparalleled power to heal the psyche and liberate the spirit. Throughout our lives, the energies of pain and suffering that are an inevitable part of life on earth and the human condition can get lodged in our entire body, mind, and spirit. It takes an equal and opposite vibration to free these stuck energies, and nothing releases these emotions and frees the soul better than music. Healing cannot truly happen without forgiveness and love, and this can often be very difficult to achieve without outside influence. We are drawn to music in both our joy and our pain. In its inspirational vibrations and messages of truth, we are free to feel deeply and unreservedly, and in doing so be guided to our liberation and wholeness.
There is a reason why music is in every aspect of our lives, from entertainment to worship. Probably more songs are written about love, the secular and the sacred, than about any other subject. Music speaks to all of us with the same universal truth, and few things can better carry us in our need or better inspire our love. In music we are all in harmony together, and only when we are in it together can the love and forgiveness we all need be shared for the greater wholeness of humanity.
My father was a blues guitar player and an alcoholic. He suffered greatly in his life, and there was much anger and bitterness in him, which made our lives very difficult. It was from him that my love of the guitar and music came. It was through our mutual love of music, the guitar, and its gift in our lives that forgiveness, love, and healing were made possible in ways nothing else could provide. In all my experiences as a musician performing and sharing music with others, performer and participant have been lifted up and healed in more ways than I could ever fully describe. I am forever grateful for the gift of music in my life and in the world. In music we are all together, in music we are all one.
“In music we are all together, in music we are all one.”
– Valarien, Composer, Guitarist & Producer
