Mr.
Milan Malik was born 06.10.1978 in Skalica. His very first contacts with music
started to
manifest themselves already in his childhood, when he started to use his mother’s
pots and his sister’s
toy suitcases as a compensation for a battery of drums.
At
the age of six he started attending piano lessons, but his greatest love up
till now is percussion.
Composing music he most often uses a computer in combination with a midi synthesiser,
a guitar, percussion
and samples.
The
first band he performed with as a drummer (or a little drummer boy), was The
Destiny, where he started
to play during
attending the fifth class of primary school. Later there were a lot of bands
of various trends. With the
band The Ä he recorded
3 studio demos, with the Czech band Like Fool
that was of a harder nature, he recorded 2
demos and he played tens of concerts
in the Czech Republic, Slovak republic, Austria and in Switzerland. The Cloud
band, which originated after Milan’s
leaving Like Fool was composed of Czech and Slovak musicians. As for the genre,
it
was also a harder style band. Then there was The Natur@l band,
that used to use a computer with a combination with ethno instruments during
their live performances. Later a chamber-tuned The Jazzicek Trio came into
being which transformed itself into The Strange Seeds Band. Their music was
influenced by psychedelic period of the music genius Miles Davis and for some
time there were seven members of the band playing there. Nowadays The Strange
Seeds are performing as a quartet with occasional guests and they are preparing
a record with a work title Galimatias (A Nasty Mess).
Since 2002 Milan has been performing in The
Omens band
with which he recorded a CD named Džugašvilné šrotvajlery which he also sound-produced
.
As for his solo projects, in 1997 he recorded
a demo called Garden, where you can feel an inspiration by Nine Inch Nails
band. Then a demo called Crystaline followed and then a four-composition demo
called Milq, which is more oriented to electronic and experiment music. His
come back to guitars can be felt in his recording called A Return From A Place
Of No Return (2000) that is partially influenced by music of Slovak musical
giant Dezo Ursiny.
Since 2001 he has been working together, as
a musician and a sound engineer, with Softworks
Illusion Company that deals with the PC and console games development.
They already have created such titles as Hidden & Dangerous Part 1
and Part 2, Mafia, Viet Cong and another successful games.
Milan has been working on the project Chameleon, intensively for three years
as a musician and a sound engineer.Here you cen find rewievs ( 1, 2 ).
At the moment Milan has been working for five
years on a project called Psychic and which should be finished in the ending
of 2006 and which promises a very nourishing mix of guitar, electronic ant
atmospheric music.
Beside this all he is working on new project
wiht name ELVEON (www.elveon.com) for 10tacle company (www.10tacle.com)
Some samples of demonstration you can find in Discography section.


