A brand new single by Daniel Angelus was released on August 10th. ‘More Than You Love Me’ was surprisingly revealed with a brand new music video and accompanied with artwork by the prestigious artist and creator Emily Brooks Millar.
Fans and listeners can access the song at over 60+ stores worldwide.
You can also access the song by clicking HERE
The music video and single cover art are featured below.
Hello humans. I am returning from my hiatus...see you August 10th! 👀 Daniel xox
Daniel Angelus has scooped his first major music award at the Best Shorts Competition held in California, USA. The award is for Best Original Score for The Lights of Dawn, a film that Daniel penned and recorded and co-produced the soundtrack for. It is Daniel Angelus’ second nomination for a major film award for music and his first win. See the results of this win and other category winners below.
Personal Post: TW/ Suicide & Mental Health
in 2019 i was set to perform a range of shows around the world to promote my recent music releases. at the time we were booking shows, i noticed that i was starting to feel quite different and i was making odd decisions and feeling extremely anxious. i cancelled some of the shows before they were announced, the announced shows in europe were postponed as i got off the airplane and i performed only two shows in front of the public in england.
i made public statements explaining that things had been very difficult and that i was dealing with mental health complications. the truth is that in the year previous to me making these musical commitments i had been told by my then wife of 8 years that she was gay. my mind exploded and all of my worst fears and anxieties surged into my brain and soul. a lot of them linked to my son and my own upbringing. i kept all of these struggles quiet. i ended up leaving my home for a short time to run away from these events and the lingering pain that existed there. i went to the doctor to talk about my mental health and they told me to take sertraline. that was it. the truth is that i needed time to process the events, understand my pain and talk to somebody about it in a safe and comfortable environment. as the news went public, this entire time i watched as my ex-wife was being cheered on publicly for coming out as gay and aggressively encouraged into her new gay life, however, not once did any of these people approach me and ask me "how are you coping?, are you okay?, how do you feel about your whole personal life's plans ending because of something completely out of your control?".
i am a complicated person. a childhood victim of multiple sexual assaults over the span of 16 years, domestic child abuse and further traumas. this latest event, rocked my world and brought a lot to the surface. i had spent my entire life working to build a home for our only child that was safe, comfortable and not broken like mine was. i started having very scary panic attacks and my world felt ever so small. i decided to take my first tablet of sertraline and i had a awful allergic reaction to it. over the following 48 hours i experienced extreme suicidal ideation and did everything left in my will to not hang myself until this tablet was out of my system. it was one of the hardest and most difficult experiences of my adult life.
the weeks following this event i was suddenly surrounded by therapists working with me to ground me and support me. my doctor told me to never take sertraline again. i reached out and requested the support that i needed from my friends. i talked and talked and talked about what i was going through and over the following months i got better and stronger. and then i started writing again. the first music i wrote after these traumatising events was the soundtrack for the film, the lights of dawn. the songs 'bridge' and 'limbo' came from a very personal and powerful place. a place of hope and legacy. a place in my heart that was hopeful. a place of wisdom, survival and rebellion against the situation i had been in several months previous. i sat in one of our studios with a longtime producer who was excellent at processing this moment and allowing it to happen, and allowed all of this emotion to flow into the session for this music. it flowed right through me. i don't think any single session had ever had such profound and powerful emotion flowing into on anything i had ever recorded before. i was grateful. grateful to be alive. grateful to have survived. grateful to be able to make this music for the wonderful film by sadie duarte. i was grateful for the love of my life, my son. i was grateful to be able to see things clearer. grateful for feeling again. if you take a moment to listen to this music, it was designed for very powerful moments in the film. moments of great mystery. legacy. and i felt my own connection with this and it was perfect. my most personally perfect work involved not one single word spoken or sung by me. it flowed through the music i created and the vocal intonation of our wonderful musical team. it was powerful. beyond the realms of the film, i want this music to be soundtrack for many peoples survival. many peoples moments of mystery. many peoples hope. our hope. we need hope.
I am doing okay now. i have faced challenges to my mental health and wellbeing recently and i have been firm and clear about what i want to experience. respect. love. positive mental health. i will not let anybody else take that from me anymore. and this music stands for that. one persons liberation was another persons heartbreak. but through this music, i was able to liberate myself, from heartbreak. i hope it liberates you.....
be good to yourself. be thoughtful. be kind. support other people's positive mental health. support your own. peace and love. daniel xox
The Award-Nominated Official Film Soundtrack for The Lights of Dawn film by Daniel Angelus is now available at stores and streaming services worldwide.
It has been officially announced that Daniel Angelus has been nominated for Best Soundtrack at the New York International Film Awards for his soundtrack to the short film ‘The Lights of Dawn’ directed by Sadie Duarte.
IndieZone Magazine caught up with Daniel to find out what he is doing at the moment.
The article reveals exciting new developments that you can read about HERE
The teaser trailer for The Lights of Dawn was released today - get your first look at the new film from multi-award-winning director Sadie Duarte featuring a full soundtrack by Daniel Angelus.
hello all.
recently i have been undergoing a lot of changes in my personal life, some that i have shared publicly.
some of these changes prompted a deep and humbling journey that led to many changes in my private life and now….my music career.
i feel a great rush of life and freedom that has enabled me to re-evaluate what i want to do moving forward.
i want to love myself like i am not made of stone. a person with fire in his soul, love in his heart and a pure dedication to music and art.
as a result of this….
i decided recently to cancel production of act iii. there will be no third act. no album.
i have worked on a new home studio setup and i have enlisted the help of two brand new producers to work alongside the wonderful and talented david emery whom i have proudly shared studio space with for 15 years.
last year i ended a publishing deal and signed new deals with companies who represent the vision that was growing inside of me.
moving forward i will be releasing music differently. no albums. i will be making music that sounds very different from my previous music releases. i will be moving in new directions and making music that i have dreamed of making for years but have not been able to due to budget constraints and lack of resources.
i want to thank the new team that have joined me and the great people who really believe in my potential who are helping bring my ideas forward in this new direction. to all of those who are helping fund this, thank you so much. i am so grateful to you. to my followers, thank you for sticking with me with every release, live show and journey since 2007.
2021 will see brand new music from me. it will arrive unannounced and i hope it will stay with you once you discover it. it comes with a big attitude change and a heck of a lot more travelling into emotional parts of my mind and heart that i have never shared in my art before.
i’m going to be gone for a while, creating, making, anticipating, romanticising and dying over and over again.
i will be returning soon….
i was sadly informed today of the passing of andrew price. andy was the first person to ever teach me how to perform. he taught me how to sing. he taught me how to act (sorry i am so shit at this andy) and he advised me to be less of the prick i was at school and in life.
andy was a very powerful figure in my young life. my childhood was absolutely dreadful and i was suffering a whole multitude of abuse in my home and then some more at school. this entire time andy was teaching me drama at school. after my father died at 14, he being my main abuser, i felt a lease of freedom that meant i was able to take those first steps to being the person i am now. it took me many years to feel at peace and comfort with myself but it all began with andy shouting instructions at me with passion, throwing tantrums and turning tables over because i fucked up a line in his musical play or i had just said something so blindingly stupid that he couldn’t take me seriously.
i was a young person going through some serious shit and andy, despite being brutally honest and sincere about how i should and should not be, showed me a level of empathy that i have never forgotten. he allowed me to be in his musical plays, he put his faith and trust in me, and he was honest with me when i pissed him off for being the egotistical little dick that i was when i was 14 to 22 years old. he gave me purpose and through his theatre company - the derby youth theatre workshop - he gave me a small breather from awful things happening in my home. i sat in my first ever pub next to him and listened to his jokes. i went on my first school trips with him and listened to his humour and his silliness. i went to his house after shows had wrapped and stared in awe at the artworks and crafts he had in his home. i was terrible at socialising but i knew i was in the presence of an incredibly skilled and unique individual. he allowed me to stay with him until 6pm after school most days to help him build his theatre sets for shows. it meant so much to me and i cling to these memories as he safeguarded me from the trauma in my home.
i let andy down on many occasions as a young person. he gave me opportunities and i squandered them as my life was a mess. however, andy persisted with me and this is why i will never forget him and every time i released a new record i always hoped that maybe he would have taken a listen and possibly liked just one of my songs. i seeked his approval because he was such a kind and special figure in my young life, an incredibly visionary who had such a huge passion for theatre and new york city. from the age of 20 i never spoke to andrew again. i had set off on my own travels, my own lives journey but i was so lucky and blessed to have his advice and words with me.
i remember writing a letter to andy about my abuse, explaining to him why i was such a letdown from time to time and i asked his forgiveness for exiting his theatre company twice. once because i thought i was going to be a big movie star (what a twat i was at 16) and the last time because i was struggling with my mental health.
wherever i go and whatever i do, i will always mention andrew price and how he taught me to be the performer i am on stage today. i am proud to have been a complex pupil of his because he, in turn, showed me what a true teacher and director can be. a leader. an organiser. but most of all, an inspiring person and i am eternally grateful for the important and hugely needed advice that he gave me along with his peers. i feel a deep sadness today and i am sure that many who have worked with andy and been students of andy will feel this same way, he was that special and unique an individual.
andy, i hope i can do you proud with the wonderful things happening in my music career, and i truly owe a lot of my drive, determination and love for music and theatre, to you. thank you so much. rest in power. xox
(i have included below a recorded performance for andy’s derby youth theatre workshop, the show was called trouble and is from 2004, i am 16 years old in this recording)
Daniel has released a surprise trilogy of music videos today called “The Man” via social media.
Three tracks from ACT II are included in the art film. The included songs are Sertraline, You Will Be the Death of Me & Rapture (feat. Amii Dawes).
Watch the video below!
Feelings Post: it is an absolute privilege and humbling opportunity to have written and recorded my first ever original music score for film. i remember lying in bed late at night next to my friend, when I got the DM on Twitter from the wonderful director, sadie duarte, around a year and a half ago. i felt this was an incredible opportunity that I had been working towards for over 10 years and I was shaking with excitement at the possibilities. i lay there and dreamed of all the "what ifs" and played out in my head how my music could help these incredible film artists bring their vision and performances to life. the time is nearly here for The Lights of Dawn to begin its world tour over the next few years to every film festival it can earn across the globe, to deservedly win as many awards as it could, and begin for me a journey that i have personally dreamed of my entire life. the journey is soon set to begin - for now I want to extend my gratitude to the team involved in making the film and to the director for giving me this opportunity. i love you all and I am humbled by this journey. lets do this!
The Rare Personal Christmas Post: hello lovely people - some updates on life, i know some of you like to ask, i am still working hard at university and i am really pleased with the grades i am getting, it means i am paying attention and offering the right level of commitment and work ethic as well as making sure i am researching and studying to the high standard myself and the university expect of me. some of you have asked how i am since flying solo in the dating world again after nearly 10 years of marriage. well, it certainly is different isn't it? - dating apps are the thing now and i find it a little difficult to connect with people via text. i am being patient and running towards a place where i feel comfortable, happy and content with who i am. i want to trust that true love is not a dying breed and although there is going to be opposition in everything i do, i just need to compromise with myself and the world and flow like a river to the best place for me. maybe a girl will love me like a lifeguard. my ex-wife is a wonderful human being who supports me when i feel a little nervous and i am grateful for that. i am happier than i have ever been though, i feel invigorated, my mental health has improved tenfold and my physical health is the best it has been in over 13 years. i feel the rush of life pulsing through me and creative energy that i have not felt before.
as christmas approaches and we are on the heels of the divine i want to take a moment to say a huge thank you to each and every person who has listened to my music in 2020. we gave you the tricky 2nd album in 'act ii' this year and a tiny bonus christmas present in the new only you/falling small record and me and my creative team are so humbled by the response to some of the new music and art i released in 2020. 2021 has more music videos from the 2nd act for you as well as the official release of my debut film soundtrack for 'the lights of dawn' - the film is going to travel the worlds film festivals and i hope it wins the awards it deserves. it is the first time my music could also be judged for prestigious awards and that's a new experience for me and i am both vibrating with excitement and trembling with nerves. we are working really hard on 'act iii' and this 3rd act album will definitely not be available until at least 2022 as i am creating something enormously ambitious. i need the time to release a 3rd act that is genuinely a difference-maker. i am working with some incredibly talented individuals to bring this vision to life and there are many pieces to this record that will take a long time to connect together to make the record of my dreams. stay with me and we can experience it together. i am so thankful to be living my biggest childhood dream. making music that thousands of wonderful people listen to. you are all so precious and unique and i am grateful i know you through this journey.
2020 has been a sombre year of loss and hardship for so many people. the impact that the global pandemic has had on the world has been profound. i want to acknowledge the heartbreaking loss of alan merril to covid-19. alan guided me through some difficult early years as a music artist from 2009 to 2011 after my first tour in the usa. alan was and still is a divine inspiration to me and i will never forget my interactions with alan or his work ethic that i aspire to replicate. rest in power.
as we push on through the hardship we can unite and love one another as best as we can. the smallest acts can make the biggest difference in somebodies life and it can help restore any lost faith in people. kindness and love is the best to get through hard times and i ask that we look out for one another and share positivity. if anybody is feeling alone this christmas you can reach out to me through social media and i will respond to you. you do not need to feel alone unless you want to be. until 2021, peace and love to you all. long live music. long live peace and love.
Daniel Angelus has released a new double-track EP titled ‘Only You/Falling’ today.
The A-side features a Daniel Angelus trademark dream-pop cover of Yazoo’s all-time hit ‘Only You’.
The B-side features an acoustic cover of ‘Falling’ originally performed by popular music artist Harry Styles.
Both songs are available to stream for free exclusively to YouTube or the EP can be streamed or purchased right HERE
ACT II, a brand new album by Daniel Angelus, has finally been released into the world and there has been a lot of excitement about the record, notably centred around the track ‘With or Without You’. We wanted to acknowledge the incredible amount of press around the release by adding the links to every article that is released around the world and say a big thank you to the music media for embracing and talking about ‘ACT II’ and ‘With or Without You’.
Find below a list of published articles about ACT II. We aim to keep this list updated for the next few years.
The anonymous music collective The Blue Romance released a surprise new single today featuring the vocals of Daniel Angelus. LIsten to the song below. The track is rolling out at stores worldwide this week and next week.
hello everybody
as you know i like to keep you updated personally on the works happening with the music so here is the latest
act ii has been released and i feel very humbled that i got to release this pleasure project of mine - it is a wonderful dystopian album with a sprinkling of hope and i thank everybody who has listened to the album and shared it with friends and family
on december 4 2020 i will be releasing a special winter ep that has two cover songs. i performed these songs intimately in our studios during the first english lockdown and felt that they could be shared with you, and so they shall be, with accompanying scene videos. i hope you feel them as much as i do. thank you deeply to yazoo and harry styles for creating such wonderful sounds for me to interpret.
we have a special musical short film for you in early 2021 that combines 3 music videos from act ii into one long video and i am so excited to deliver this character-driven performance of the songs from act ii - the songs that will feature in this music short film are sertraline, you will be the death of me and rapture.
also in 2021 i will be proudly releasing the film soundtrack for sadie duartes film the lights of dawn. the film is due to premiere at film festivals worldwide in 2021 and will tour the world for several years. the soundtrack offers you a very well kept secret of mine, in that i believe my best music i create is the music without me singing on it. you have never heard this music. the soundtrack offers you a first glimpse of my cinematic mind and the sound i create when i am deeply in it. i am so excited to share this music with you and for film fans and film judging panels worldwide to experience its role in sadie duartes wonderful movie.
i have been asked via social media about act iii and i think i am comfortable enough to talk further about this record. the acts are a series of music albums that chronic places in my heart and journeys my mind has taken. every album was designed to be in a different genre so that i had the freedom to make the music i always wanted to make without feeling the pressure to stay in one genre. my fanbase is quite erratic for this reason and i love that i have brought so many people from different walks of life to the same place for a brief moment. i hope that we find a connection on this musical plain and our hands clasp together through the hardest of times. act iii is now in pre-production and we are working hard on 13 songs. the album will be unlike anything i have ever created before. i am creating an overarching album of 13 songs that has a mini-album built-in as part of that. an album that delivers both an overarching pulsing dream-pop experience with a mini-album of slow cinematic ‘wall of sound and emotion’ songs. these songs have all been written and chronic some very touchy and sensitive moments in my life on this planet. this album, without any doubt, will be an emotional process. one that will leave us dancing one minute and crying on our knees in humble prose the next. the albums title is in a photo i have posted for you below. i hope you find this information worth the wait as the album is going to take us at least one year to make, maybe longer. we want to get it right. i expect, currently, a 2022 release for act iii.
thats all from me now. i go off into the ether to make something special for us to share together. love is a most wonderful experience and yet it always ends, one way or the other, in a terrifyingly vulnerable funeral of hearts. its a very busy few years to come….i hope you stay the course and take the journey with me, hand in hand.
Daniel Angelus has announced the release of a special two-track winter EP for release on December 4th 2020.
The EP features two cover songs, ‘Only You’, originally performed by Yazoo, and ‘Falling’, originally performed by Harry Styles.
The EP has been revealed after the success of Daniel’s dream-pop cover of ‘With or Without You’ by U2 which features on his latest album ACT II.
You can pre-order the new EP right HERE
You can listen to the songs exclusively below by clicking the YouTube play button.
i would like to thank every single person who has helped me on my journey these past few years. i am grateful that you have been by my side whilst i wander through life and whilst i record new music and attempt to improve with each and every record. i am humbled by the response to my new record and although the journey with act ii is far from over i am driven by the positive responses from humans that listen to my music and the media as well. thank you, sincerely. i really am also humbled by the reaction to my cover of u2’s with or without you. this band is so iconic and me and the team i work with knew that taking on their wonderful song was going to be a mountain of a challenge but we stuck to our beliefs that we could make this sound the way i wanted and feel raw. it is what i believe my music should always be. raw. emotional. real. beautiful. unique. original. to know that so many people across the world have a chance to hear this song and my other tracks from the present and past fills me with great pangs of gratitude and humility. again, thank you to the universe for giving my art many homes.
moving forward we have many special fragments of act ii to bring to you in visual forms now that you have the audio. we have a slate of content that will be released over the next 8 months. the metaphors and vision will all come together. i can reveal that we have the following:
music video for ‘you will be the death of me’
music video for ‘rapture’
music video for ‘live famous die’
‘the man’ trilogy music videos release
live performance videos on the official youtube
live shows once we are free and safe to perform for you in person
i have been writing a lot of songs and this week we begin work on act iii. it will take a lot more time than usual to make act iii because we are going to work our hearts out to make this the best body of work to date and we have big ideas and plans for the record. that’s all i can say on that at the moment.
lights of dawn finished filming in spain and the director sadie duarte and her team are working on the film in post-production for a 2021 release. i have written and recorded the original soundtrack for the film and this will be released worldwide alongside the film’s release at international film festivals. this is a whole new experience for me and one that again, i am simply humbled to have had the opportunity to do. i feel like i have far more film music inside of me to give out so hopefully, i will get this chance again. and i am grateful to sadie for reaching out to me and trusting me with this soundtrack.
i know we remain in the hardest of times at the moment and i beg of you to be positive. hold on to your reigns. we're all going to die one day. but when they close up your door, hope that it will have all been worth it. that you lived your life with happiness and wisdom. keep the dreams flowing for one day they shall run dry. we are always on the verge of eternal because we are a part of something bigger. a universe, aggressive, scary, incredible, remarkable, to the moon, to the stars and to the sun. your mind is like a confused pantheon, desperate for some direction and you can seek that path yourself. fall in love with personal ambitions, goals and chasing those dreams before they dry up. i have fallen in love with my potential, harnessing it year after year and growing more confident, standing in the lightning fields of kindness, love and strength. whatever challenges you face oh dear reader of this, and there are quite a few at the moment aren't there? just know that you can progress, overcome and create your own course and work in the direction you need to be. if your thoughts lead to negative ends, ask yourself why? how can you change that? what energy are you surrounding yourself with? what energy are you putting out into the world? are your works of art brave? are your conversations worth anything? are your movements and your motives pure of heart? are you coping? do you need support? do you know it's okay to reach out to good people and organisations for support? or do you run your fastest through those lightning fields of kindness, love and strength? - harness your ability, your energy and make each day worth something more than just another day of existence. watch your children grow with wide-eyed wonder and pride. breathe in the air and be grateful for the smallest of wonders in the world, of which there are millions. find your reason and purpose and go and achieve it one step at a time. be self-aware and manage your progress, be honest with yourself and others and be sincere with your potential. i believe in you as much as i believe in myself. love, daniel xox
Ramesh Sital of Sital Media in Netherlands has written an article about ACT II. You can see the article below.
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