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?"

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