At some point throughout my life and artistic career, I was awakened with an intense desire: the need to express my ideas, experiences and feelings through music. I stopped thinking about the best chords and melodies that could become the “Hit Parade” and began to worry no more about composing for commercial purposes, success or fame.

My compositions that today (October 2006) total almost 400 songs over 25 years of career, gradually became the soundtrack of everything I lived, witnessed and felt. Above all, an immense desire to discover something greater than my simple human existence on Earth, that is, to be here only living to live, waiting for time to pass without any understanding of the condition we are undergoing.

This distancing has led me to reflect on humanity, the history of wars, behaviors, futility, greed, and the way in which we end up making the same mistakes, generating a vicious cycle where, I believe, no ideology can change it without the development of human consciousness like: compassion, empathy, discernment and the real perception of ilusion that we live just in a material world.

Then, through music, writing and enigmatic images, I set out to tread on a story that tells the saga of a Celestial Being that eventually deviated from its mission, letting itself be led by excessive pride, believing that it could overcome all evil alone, but ended up being seduced and thus enslaved in a world of darkness. Thus, this tale illustrates the trajectory of his incarceration and his incessant search for the doors that lead him to liberation.

I imagine myself in this “Being,” with all the mistakes and choices that led to it and led me to the mazes of life. Not as a hero, but as one who seeks to improve and overcome the limited human condition and psychic blockage. Harvesting the keys and trying to recover the wings, to one day be able to return … So, to free yourself from this cycle that imprisons us. So, in this way, we come together for the same purpose.

DaNe DaNiel

Oct / 2006