Angel Marcloid

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🕉️ Music Composer & Producer
☸️ Multi-Genre Multi-Instrumentalist
✝️ Mixing & Mastering Engineer / Business Owner
☯️ Experimental Videographer / Graphic Designer / Collage Artist
☮️ Former DIY Record Label "CEO"
☪️ Unitarianism / Universalism / Non-duality / Perennialism / Interfaith / Christian Mysticism / A Course In Miracles / Vedanta / Upanishads / Bhagavad Gita / Buddhism / Law Of One / Paul Selig
⚛️ Feline & Coffee Enthusiast

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Specializing in the experimental, progressive, & forward-thinking corners of original music. Over 600 completed projects. 100% positive reviews.Check out angelhairaudio.com for more info, tons of audio examples, testimonies, rate quotes, FAQ, etc.

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[Updated 12/18/2023]Angelia Faye Marcloid was born in of the greatest years for music, 1984. To be more specific, it was 9 months after her Mom & Dad banged in a hotel room somewhere.She currently resides in a quiet town more than an hour outside of Chicago, IL. with her wife, 4 cats, 1 dog, and some plants.Angel changed her name from her former/birth name in 2015. She considers her full name to be Angelia, whereas 'Angel' is for short.She chose the name 'Faye' as her middle name in 2021.'Marcloid' is a "stage name" or "public name" of sorts, spawned from a joke her friend Derek made in the early 2010s.She was gifted a cheap acoustic guitar from a family friend when she was 3, but she spent most of her single digits playing drums instead. At only 8 years old she was playing Rush, Candlebox, Rage Against The Machine & Dream Theater covers in a band with the then-12-year-old guitar wizard Andrew Synowiec, now a Los Angeles session musician (The Who, Pink, 98 Degrees, Mark Anthony).At 12 she got a Fender Jazz bass for her birthday, and at 13 an Aria Pro II electric guitar. By her pre-teens & into her late 20s, she was playing in & writing for a number of hard-working DIY bands exploring many genres such as prog rock, post-hardcore, metalcore, punk, emo & screamo (the first two waves), noise, grind, powerviolence, alternative rock, and even classic rock covers.Some of the more well-known bands were Age Sixteen, A Perfect Kiss, Lilu Dallas, Batcomputer, Sawhorse (MD), New Years, Seabreezes, Shadow Gov't, & the regrettably-&-jokingly-named anarcho-powerviolence band Surf Nazis On Ecstasy.She was also the sit-in drummer for Sweden's Suis La Lune for one of their American tours.In the mid 2000's, Angel ran a MySpace clothing brand/graphic design firm/screen printing company called Black Sea, in which she outsourced printing work to a friend's merchandising warehouse in Florida. Most of her graphic work was making gritty, trendy shirt designs for metalcore & pop punk bands.From around 2008 to the mid 2010s, Angel ran multiple experimental music labels (Rainbow Bridge, Swamp Circle), & remained active with large number of simultaneous musical solo projects for one person. Some of those being Power Windoze, Inappropriate King Live, The Human Excuse, Pregnant Spore, Path To Lobster Believers, Dementia & Hope Trails, World Of White Ice, etc. She made a lot of the art for her labels & projects as well.As of the late 2010s, Angel's dominant creative endeavor has been composing/producing music (and making music videos for) her solo project Fire-Toolz, in which she explores & experiments with the sounds of industrial, jazz fusion, prog, noise, new age, ambient, avant-garde sound design & collage, house, early waves of emo & screamo, IDM, glitch, & more. Song structure, time signature, musical key, and timbral themes, are all subject to jaggedly shift at any moment in such a way that is jarring to some, stimulating to others, & abstractly authentically reflective of who Angel is.Fire-Toolz's visual & lyrical themes are often deeply personal, spiritual, esoteric, mystical, psychedelic, abstract, conceptual, & philosophical. They are rife with symbolism, synesthesia, connection to nature, and spiritual themes spanning across traditions.With Fire-Toolz, Angel takes the matter-of-fact & the visceral & synthesized them to uncover new colors, point to new realizations, & communicate both electrifying joy & stinging pain. It is all expressed in an embellished yet honest way, through the vehicles chaos, calm, & non-duality.Fire-Toolz has taken on an extreme amount of meaning & significance for Angel over the years. It is her flagship project, & it is a living documentation of her evolution. Each album is like a log file.Additionally, Angel produces original music as Nonlocal Forecast, Angelwings Marmalade, MindSpring Memories, Toad Computers, Apk ♀ ᴎᴇᴛ ☯ Ltd℻, and several others.Angel Hair Audio, is her music studio and full-time work endeavor in which she does mixing, mastering, music production, music videos, & audio/video post-production work. Typically she is booked 2-4 weeks out at any time.Angel spends most of her free time walking & exploring, meditating & praying, enjoying nature & animals, bonding with her cats/best friends, binge-watching academic YouTube channels on religion & spirituality, monitoring live streams of cat rescue nurseries, shoddily soaking up jazz music theory, Photoshopping together gaudy digital collages, digitally glitching commercial stock animations, dreaming of ordering takeout, actually ordering takeout, consuming overpriced lattes, or breaking the law (depending on which state she's in).She also absolutely loves just being on the internet. And doing stuff on it.She also spends a lot of time with the teachings and experiences of the Law Of One, Paul Selig, Eckhart Tolle, contemplative mystical Christianity, A Course In Miracles, Advaita Vedanta, Taoism, Sufism, Buddhism, & other spiritual wisdom traditions and works.On paper/on Earth, you could say that Angel is transgender. She is not a trans woman. The term 'non-binary' works, but ultimately she doesn't prefer to label herself with any checkbox or qualifier unless she has to. She finds herself "feeling feminine" but without any particular gendered words to justify or explain it. At the same time, her masculine energy & traits are undeniable. They swirl within & without her feminine nature.Angel is, on the level of form, a person, an animal, a sentient conglomeration of cells. But on a deeper and more real level, she is... happening, just as every other person & thing in this universe is happening. She is just as much everything & nothing as anything else is. Her lack of claiming a gender identity, & the world's resistance to accommodating this freedom to do so, are aspects of her worldly experience. However, they do not define her essence, which is prior to the world & modern culture, as everyone else's is.If words must be used to come up with some kind of identifying marks, they may as well be metaphor or poetry, as medical terms only refer to the body, & psychological terms only refer to the mind.We are all a single Ocean ultimately, & sometimes Ocean-Self appears to manifest as individualized waves. Angel is one of these waves that briefly rises from the Ocean, only to merge back into it soon. On this plane, Angel is just the Big Bang, still in motion.Although 'she/her' pronouns were used in this biography, 'they/them' pronouns aren't the worst thing. To Angel, no pronouns feel ultimately correct, but refusing to use them makes speaking more difficult, so why not surrender to that.


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