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The great thinkers of the East traditionally view the world balanced between spectrums of opposites, explains Rocky Votolato, a Seattle-ite musician-philosopher. ”There’s dark and there’s light, front and back, everything is basically a wave,” his voice continues in a telephone interview. Volotato works these rich veins of thought into the tension of his guitar strum, maintaining a fulfilling equilibrium between understatement and drama that echoes the core statutes of Eastern philosophy.
Thoughts on the human condition give True Devotion, Volotato’s latest release, a sense that “this is what life feels like on the ground,” as the song “Red River” says in a frame of running drums. The open beat nuzzles its way into your affections. Votolato sings in a steady voice that is tan like a friend’s drawl, a voice that takes you by the hand and draws you into a sunny afternoon, coffee shop discussion about life and purpose and love.
“We all suffer, we all suffer from the fact that we’re human. Just being in your own mind, trying to figure out what the hell we’re doing here,” Votolato tells me, “The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. That’s something you have to find out for yourself.” True Devotion helped Votolato to find the eternal Tao for himself, to define his beliefs as well as to fulfill what he sees as a the greater purpose of life by channeling creative energy to create a distinct voice which he hopes will reach people, “make them feel that they’re not alone.”
True, honest devotion is being there for your family, your friends, your loved ones, Volotato continues. But I think that we can also see it in Volotato’s dedication to searching out the subtleties of his belief and expressing them through music that translates into a peaceful yin for the listener’s yang.
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