About
Paul Ramey is the creator of the goth/rock opera, Veil & Subdue, along with collaborator Anna K. Meade. Paul has been composing music for the better part of two decades, often with a decided bent toward the darker spectrum of sound. His vast range of musical influences include Peter Murphy, David Bowie, Queen, Marc Almond, Sarah Brightman and HIM. Other creative forces that added fuel to this particular work include Neil Gaiman and Joss Wheadon.
Veil & Subdue is the culmination of three years of composition and recording; a 2-CD package which includes a complete libretto. The whole thing is designed to be eventually brought to the stage and performed live.
Veil & Subdue is the tale of Morpheus (referred to in the opera as The Black Sultan), the King of Dreams, who falls in love with a mere mortal woman and dreams of making her his queen. It is a classic tale, but entwined with the real physical phenomenon of night terrors. The premise is, “What if a woman had night terrors, and what if they were brought on not by any physiological reasons, but because a god was visiting her in her dreams and trying to love her? What if the mortal mind could not handle such an event, and it all manifested as night terrors?” The story is an attempt to put a physiological event into a mythological/allegorical context…much as (I suspect) many classic tales of gods visiting mortals existed to do.
