Looking into the distance along the two silvery surfaced but otherwise rusty lines of the narrow gauge railway in his native New Zealand, Dael Bartlett stood and dreamed. At age 11 he had no idea where life would lead, and it would be another four years before he would pick up his first guitar and start down the road to a love affair with music that has never faded.

Now several continents later and living by the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle, Dael writes songs about life and love with the heartfelt passion of an idealist dreamer.