Bernard Milé – Songs and Albums insights

[Mucha na Dziko]

Hi everyone,

Mucha Na Dziko here. You may know me, or maybe remember me as a fairly active user from a couple years back, or perhaps you don't. Let me introduce myself again anyway:

At the moment I'm nearly 24 years old, and have been making music since I was 16. My dream ever since I first touched an instrument was to become a songwriter and one-man studio band, so instead of sitting down with my bass, guitar or trumpet and learning for hours on how to properly play them, I tried right from the start to write songs and record them. First on my garage band iPhone app, then on garage band on a newly acquired computer, and then finally a little bit more professionally in Ableton Live and Apple Logic. I was releasing my songs (good or bad) on Soundcloud for a few years now, never gaining much of a following, but enough to keep me going and be happy with my output.

I never thought of Soundcloud as something very serious. More like a private library of all the things I've done up until that point, waiting until I will have skill enough to start releasing music on "serious" streaming platforms and CDs or Vinyl. And, well, that day has finally come. Just this month I released two singles and my first full-length album.

I'm extremely proud of all these tracks and – for the first time in my life – they're gaining a little bit of notoriety on Soundcloud (the algorithm seems to like me, as 80% of views come from Soundcloud recommending my music through "related tracks" and others), as well was on Spotify – though in this case it's mostly thanks to my friends and my parents listening on repeat and sending to their friends. I suppose everybody needs to go through this stage at some point.

Well, I thought a nice idea would be to have a place in the internet where I could share some insights about the creative process, updates on how things are going with released material and the one to come, thoughts on the music I make or the one that inspired me to create, etc etc with people interested in the vast and various world of music. And what better place for that than good old MusicBanter?


Photograph by my patrtener in love, crime and art – Damagenius