We met Angelnumber 8 through Rita Braz, a photographer and art director whose eye often moves toward people who carry their own world with them. She met him in Los Angeles, across the streets he moves through every day. In a city built on image, speed, and reinvention, Angelnumber 8 feels like someone guided by a different rhythm.
He is a musician, but his work moves beyond sound. It crosses image, style, and personal ritual without feeling forced. Everything seems connected by instinct, taste, and the need to build a language of his own. Now, with new music on the way, Angelnumber 8 is ready to open another part of his world.
For Casawi, we wanted to understand Angelnumber 8 beyond the surface of his visual universe. His daily references, his private side, and how music sits inside everything he does.
Below, Angelnumber 8 answers our questions in his own words.
How would you describe yourself to someone who has never seen your work?
I’d describe my work as a showcase of vulnerability. I believe vulnerability is experimental and my music is just as such–sonically and visually.
Once you call yourself a renaissance man guided by art and beauty. What does that look like in your day, from morning to night?
Shit, did I say that? How cheesy. Art and beauty or God is heavy throughout my entire day, though. I just try to realize it by grounding myself. Reminders that go off 4x in the day for deep breathing, looking up and taking in my surroundings, writing down my blessings at night, phone calls to my family, cooking with my lady. Oh, and a moment of silence at some point in the day.
You move across different forms. What stays the same in how you approach each one?
My curiosity stays the same. I’ve always been interested in stories, people, and why things are the way they are, so as I approach things I’m always looking to explore the capabilities. Maybe it’s an annoying youngest sibling thing.
Intuition is central to your work. Where did yours come from?
My faith in God and man, also, the amount of time I spend with myself. I enjoy being cooped up in my studio just as much as being outside. Since a kid. With that time I grew (and grow) trust within myself and my interests–trusting my gut feeling because I really did (and do) spend that time in the lab.
Do you recognize yourself in what you put out, or does it become something else once it leaves you?
Yeah, I do recognize myself pre and post but my songs become much bigger than me after they leave me. In a spiritual sense. Being a vessel, what I write is Heaven-sent relief for me at the moment, but afterwards, it’s for the world to connect with. There’s many times where lyrics don’t make sense to me until months after, and I gain the clarity from hearing people speak about it or idk, me looking at it again after it's been something outside of my studio. It’s all energy–growing and forming into its own being. Hopefully serving as something for others.
Your work sits between control and release. What do you hold onto, and what do you let go?
For the longest there was no recipe. Half the time, just in a creative flow and the other half, just a hot mess. I try to be more organized now since creating Digital Tribal in 2020 which helps get things out in the world. I still keep intimacy with the unknown but now with a direction of what I’m trying to accomplish. So even if I don’t get that exact idea, I can at least finish. I hold on to the things that I haven’t worked on a home for yet and release the others. When I get sick of the ebb and flow, I create these 10min tracks with visuals called [C]oncepts. ‘(2/3) Sex in Aqua [C]’ is my favorite.
You have new music coming. What does this next body of work say that your previous one did not?
Yeah, I’m hyped. Gearing up to release at the end of May. This next body of work was really a labor of trust. To your previous question about intuition, it has sometimes been a double edge sword to where my confidence within myself has blocked others from playing a role in my life. That, or me falling back entirely, entrusting someone else with the keys, the map, the gas + the car. Not focused on if we ended up at Six Flags or the library. I’ll-figure-it-out-when-I-get-there-mentality. This next project speaks on my middle ground of empowering others. Being a vessel but also one with intent. And letting God do the rest.
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