Neels Brand

Neels Brand is a natural born writer who has struggled with the duality of mankind his whole life, and his own kinks. Great sentences, right? But does that make him a great writer, poet or lyricist. There are those who believe so, but destiny and time will tell. One thing is for certain, as a man who has walked on either side of the line of life, and as a man who is NOT afraid of truth, it could turn into something interesting, and when he refers to either side of... just understand that there be grey, and much of it in this fascinating, amazing, staggeringly unpredictable, beautiful... yet cruel world.

A very accomplished musician once told him, upon having helped him with some lyrics, "Neels, I don't know what you have been doing with your life until now, but THIS is what you where meant to be doing. It's as if you are the 'Bernie' to my 'Elton!' Not that I am comparing myself... but you catch my drift!"
Neels has managed to help with over 50 songs lyrics ranging from light and fluffy to deep and dark, and all of that with only one hour a day standing on a ledge to communicate with his friend over a 10 foot wall, a friend who, 90% of the time, did not have his almost impossible to own at that moment guitar with him. But it's like Neels can feel what others feel, the music deep inside, and between them the magic started to unfold unoresidently and unexpectedly.

J.R.R.Tolkien wrote The Silmarilian which conyains this premise that in the beginning there was not nothing and then light... but instead the 1st thing that ever came into being was SOUND, and all as we know it grew from that, from sound first and light second. Neels not only loves this idea, but feels there might even be some level of truth to it, whether fantasy or not.

Whatever is called for, Neels is the go to guy...a man so into music (having been a DJ in SA, London, China, Vietnam, even done some good vocals and a bit of piano back in the day) he sometimes wishes he could be the music. Some people once cracked a joke about how sad it is to want to be the music, but Neels understands on a spectrum that's his own, because music IS the universal language, even outdoing love.

Yes! Please! He really wishes He could be the music! As an ardent DJ and a great lover of a wide variety of music and electronica, this does not exclude rock (new or classic), jazz, metal, chillout, hiphop, lofi, or even classical in any way, if it is good it is good and that is determined by how deep it touches and what feelings evoke, most of which for there are no words, just the typical varience in the overrunning of the complexity of the whatever is responding inside...

"soul?"

 

#24 Suchergebnisse

This song is about voices that have manifested in my mind. At first it was only a week or 3. It all started 11 years ago, right about the time the brain initiutive started, and I just happehed to be in Hymen City at that time, a city known for its ecnredible technolohical advances, and that was also the first time I heard the voices). Now maybe they have ties to South Africa, and they pick they're targets well. Anybody with any pree-existing mentak condition, which means 25% of humanity. Add to that reacreational drug use and the percentage drastically drops. I have had to live with them never shutting up for a full year recently, do you know what that is like when in the "real world" you have a psychotic that has it in for you, smears your name, lies about you being aggressive, yet he us the one ever to puch me a shiner, through my broken glassess. He even pushed by mype in my ckassroom one day about money i do not owe him, thank God no kids were around, 1st thing I did was dop my broom to the floor when I saw he was trying to steal my phone, I took it back, the was the usual 2 mebpn hardly poshing each other around, he then damages his arm takes photos and claims... wait for it... I attacked him with the broomstick! What a lying miacreant piece of shit must you be to be that much of a pschopath. My point being, beween the experiment ("voices"), COVID19, no full time job because of this psycho, and then deeking with all the plethora of shit that comes my way from this hidious madman,.
I guess in my head it is somewhere in America, but not too far from Mexico... or possible the other way around. Just fun for the sak of fun.
I had to write about my absolutely amazing 99 year old granny that still drives a car, paints, cooks, cleans, makes mozaic grout colorful pictures on table tops for example, and does stained glad metal frame works. And she never forgets a things. She is a miracle. I had to write this song.
It's about COVID19 turning so much upside down, but that is why I wrote the title backwards. I hope it is understood, cause this is also about hope and people coming together, and what we leave for children. I'll be honest, not haveing had covid19 here in cambodia made me feel like I did npt have the right to talk, but enough people I knew were affected, so pen to paper it is. And in case you do not know, I am from South Africa.
This a a hard one, it stems from having had an "episode" with "voices", but once gone and I went outside, it was like heaven, like seeing everything for the first time, and reminded me of my youth. I honestly believe there is still a kid inside all of us. If I was Tom Hanks (I wish) in the movie BIG he could not contain the boy inside, he HAD to hope those keys on the foot piano, but I'm telling you right now, though technically he was a kid in a big body, I would play the heck out of that foot piano, or whatever it is called.