xodanyaelox Perspective on Safe+Haven

My name is Daniel. I'm a father, and a husband. I'm a lifelong musician that came in with a truck load of baggage. After a tulmultuous upbringing, I succumed to several forms of substance abuse, and I life I didn't care to control. I hit bottom and knew there was a better way. I got clean, I have dove back into the one thing that has always brought a form of shelter, my art. I am a multi-instrumentalist, and producer on everything I release.

My past is colored with a lot of bad experiences and bad habits. For the longest time I believed that was all there was. So I would create scenarios in my mind of the beauty that I believed could be in the places I was in. When I began getting into composing, I would take these fantasy worlds and try to color them with sound. This song is a representation of a peaceful nostalgia I suppose.

My Grandfather played bluegrass, gospel, and oldie classic rock, so I had that around. Both sides of my family had people who had their favorites in music.. I was listening to 80's pop, rock, hair metal, glam, new wave, and anything I could get close to. I remember lots of very specific artists, and songs as young as 3 years old.

I didn't decide to commit to anything until I picked up a guitar going into high school, but I'd dabbled. I became obsessed with music then.

It's an electronic/dubstep track, but I feel like there are nuances to to all of my favorites throughout my life. There is a very particular theme in this song that is reflective of "You're Woman" by White Town from the 90's Jyoti is very underrated. But I also feel my nu metal influences, and industrial... Some pop.

Stop gatekeeping, stop using artists for selfish gains, stop claiming ownership to the art an artist produces because you help get people to connect to the artists... Most of those industry people make far more than the artist, for running their wallets at the right people.. It's not about art anymore.

Love, hope, possibility, honesty, balance, and what led me to these things.

I went from thinking I'd never get to do anything with my art, to having multiple songs known by different people around the world. I've gone from aggressive rock music to producing anything I feel.. It's made me a better person.

I think the perfect tour would be Mike Shinoda, Ren Gill, Falling in Reverse, and of course I would get to open and make a circus show for everyone! 

A melodic maelstrom of combined genres all for love.

Pink Floyd, I've always loved a lot of Gilmore's writing more than Waters, but I would love to have gotten to see Pink Floyd  together. The song High Hopes, and GIlmore's explanation for writing it saved my life once.

My favorite song I have made so far is called "Peace Beneath the Stars" I believe some great things are coming. This song is a calm before the storm.

I would love to do something with Ren Gill. That kid is brilliant, and love him for real. That is what a genuine person looks like.

I want people to feel love, to feel a freedom, to feel hope, and motivation to be the change.

honest, loving, creative? lol

Seeing, hearing, and feeling beauty everywhere.

Someone said to me about my track STREETS, that they could feel themselves walking down those streets, so I guess I nailed that one.

HI Ren by Ren Gill... He wrote a beatiful piece, completely unapologetic, and turned his truama into a beautiful masterpiece.

I want to be able to instill a feeling that would drive someone to peaceful change.