Babylon The Great Is Fallen, Explained

Posted on February 16, 2012 by daniela

photo by MARiA GAGLiARDi

Babylon The Great Is Fallen

Written, Recorded & Co-Produced By Daniela Aum

Co-produced & Mixed by: Glenn Aum

My first single is ready to be released & I am a bit nervous. If I could just write ‘why doesn’t he love me’ songs like normal people, I wouldn’t be this panicked. Because of the nature of my song & the lyrics, my meanings & intentions could easily be twisted to mean something its not, so I decided to preempt any controversy by having the discussion about “what I mean” by this song in advance.

Its a bit complicated.

I have been going through a crisis. I am consumed by recent world events. I see humanity in a horrid bondage and I see the end of a neocon plutocracy-it has to be. Tsarion predicted this would happen exactly now. I am absolutely besides myself totally being consumed by this lately.

I have also been dedicating most of my psychic & occultist energy to this as well.

This song was written as it was being recorded -was a spur-of-the moment inspiration that came on Feb 14, 2012 on the heals of the most recent massacre in Syria & the revolt in Greece when Athens was set ablaze. Both weighed very heavily on my consciousness as is the genocide in Palestine & the bullying of Iran….you notice I say bullying “of” Iran not “by” Iran.

I was home alone, in an altered state & meditating on this subject. I dedicated the song to the cause and asked to be guided. I got the basic beat down when I accidentally found bomb side effects on my effects player as I was looking for the sound of crickets.

It sounded awesome in the mix and it got me thinking of the whole global situation and realized it was perfect.

I wanted to include a holy verse from any holy book on peace to juxtapose with the sound of the bombs. I want my song to be about peace & victory. I wanted this song to be a magic spell of freedom of the masses, of peace, of victory. As I searched google, I found a quote from the Holy Koran that touched me very deeply.

Chapter 2 Verse 136: Say Ye: “We believe in God & the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that is given to all the Prophets from their Lord. We make no difference between one and another of them, and we bow to God”

Doesn’t get more peaceful than that! That’s what I love about Islam, it respects the prophets of all religions. I also love how in this quote, the Koran includes “us” among the prophets. We are all capable of open communion with God, as deep and abiding as the way the prophets communed with God. This is a very empowering quote, and in this time in history, humanity needs to be empowered. Its no accident that its the Arab Spring that started the global enlightenment.

I decided to add a quote from The Holy Koran as a nod of respect to my brothers & sisters of The Arab Spring and to my brothers and sisters here in the west that are suffering extreme prejudice from an ignorant and undeserved islamaphobia.

The rest of the song comes from the book of Revelations because I believe we are living this now.

Rev 18:2 “Babylon The Great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird” That’s just a fact, no explanation necessary on that one.

But then this where the magic spell comes in:

Rev 18:4 “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers in her sins and that ye receive none of her plagues.”

Psalm 30:5: Weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.

The word peace was the command that stops the bombs. Peace is our ultimate victory, and it will come. Freedom Come. I can feel it.

So Be It.

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7 Years To Song

Posted on February 16, 2012 by daniela

I am married to musician/producer Glenn Aum of TripleEye Music

Being an artist, marrying a musician was a compatible choice, but having different creative mediums kept our talents very seperate. Still, you learn a few things when your hubby spends 3/4 of his day in front of a mixing board.

We were finally able to marry our talents when we started DUENDE Art Productions

Glenn took care of the music, I took care of the creative direction.

During that time I was creating promo videos, commercials & inspirational shorts for our dinner theatre production. Before this, music was merely an inspiration to rock out to while I painted. Suddenly music became a tool, a medium to be used to compliment or bring the visuals I was creating to life.

No one could produce the ‘feel’ of what I was looking for, so I had to learn to do it myself. Hubby taught me the basics & I eagerly began to arrange my own beats & hubby happily mixed them quite amused at how groovy my little beats were.

1 minute jingles aren’t that intimidating & I was happy with that.

Now, a few years later, with a lot more time on my hands & an upgraded in-home recording studio, I am going wild!

So far, I have written & recorded 2 full length songs that hubby just needs to final mix.

My stuff def has a ‘vibe’ to it, I’d describe it as “Mystic Fusion” -kind of creepy yet VERY groovy. I can’t wait to release it!!

Music Production Patience, My Unvirtue

Posted on February 11, 2012 by daniela

Like with most big personalities, my biggest asset is easily my biggest downfall.

What makes me a great Creative Director is my ability to make instant decisions, and to ‘get on things’ right away. I don’t often let things percolate, I am motivated and like the ‘get er done’ feeling. Even when painting, once I start a piece, I don’t leave the canvas until it done. It might take me 24 hours straight but I can’t stop till its finished.

My time working with publicists taught me momentum is the key, you need a constant flow of energy output to keep the audience engaged over time as people have become quite fickle and easily get bored.

This talent, when left unchecked, can turn into a blizzard of rush. I had a client with a similar talent, and it led her to great heights in her career but man, everywhere she went, she was like the Tasmanian Devil. It was like she was doing 10 different things while have 10 different conversations and rushing through each thing at the same time. I found myself doing the same, trying to juggle day-job, consulting privately, art career & school all at the same time. I have juggled such juggles my whole life.

Soon enough you start rushing through life, and even rushing through special moments you should be soaking up for later. My 20′s were rather exciting, and when I look back, its mostly all a blur. I only remember a fraction of it-my greatest regret.

2011 was spent recovering from my injury. I vowed to keep 2012 cozy by concentrating more on family and myself. I decided I deserved a year of self indulgence after suffering a year of torture with a head injury. I withdrew from school, stopped consulting, day job is just 6 hrs a day, and I have not booked any art shows.

To satisfy my creative itch I did release 2 books, Creating Cozy: Food & Magic For Crafting Comfort & Liam’s Magic Rocket. If I do nothing else, 2 books in one year is A LOT. I could easily rest on those laurels as both are exceptional work. I haven’t done any promo for them either, for me, releasing them was enough.

My husband & partner Glenn of www.tripleeyemusic.com just came back from a 5 year music hiatus also dealing with tremendous health issues. 5 years is a long time to step away from your life purpose. It was hard on me to see his talent sit idle knowing what he had to offer the world. So when all of a sudden we found technology that helped him create music despite his disability, it was like a whole new world opened up.

The stuff he’s recording is mindblowingly AWESOME. I feel as though as soon as this stuff gets released its a whole new life….and there’s where the battle starts. Hubby likes to chip away at things…he’s a painstaking craftsman. It has to be perfect. He toils over every note, every breath then steps away to meditate on it, then comes back to it, then steps away, then comes back. The finished product is stellar but for someone like me its t-o-r-t-u-r-e to watch.

If he were to sit at the friggin computer and mix until its done he could do it in a day. But he likes having several breaks to keep his ears fresh when he’s on it. For me, I like to record all the elements of a song & lay them down and mini-mixed on day 1 & mix and master it on day 2-done. Online, available for the world day 3.

Hubby toils over a song for weeks. Considering the amount of songs he has to record, I’m ready to friggin snap.

Last week I had 2 days to myself in the studio. Day 1 I recoded a wicked song/incantation. Day two we mixed it. Its 95% done-it just needs Glenn’s master final touch…..its been sitting there for days…..I’m ready to friggin snap.

Glenn is a firm believer in stepping away for a few days through the mixing & EQ process because you come back with fresh ears & you hear things you missed or get great ideas on sounds or effects that would make it even better.

I’m so impulsive I’d release version 1 asap then release a remix later on. Not my hubby. He won’t release a track unless its perfect. I guess he’s waited 5 years to record anything new. Waiting a little more to make sure he’s releasing stellar material after so long being away-understandable-totally.

But I’m ready to friggin snap. lol