Rhi Miles
Folk Rock project (2012-…?)
It’s an odd thing. I know one or two song writers and have found them among the most cheery of my acquaintances, ready of smile and full of merry quips and so forth. But directly they put pen to paper they never fail to take the dark view.
Bertie Wooster
When I was 16, I independently released a song I made on my laptop; and in so doing inadvertantly started a record label and became an artist. I had no real plan, but in that teenage period of naive experimentation I released a further 2 singles, 5 EPs and an album. They’re not particularly good, but I learned a lot. Over the course of the next decade, my music-making process evolved from solo efforts alone in my bedroom, to collaborative ones in studios and on stages.
For the next five years, I threw myself into our indie pop rock band, Birthday Project. The four of us had regular writing sessions. We gigged, recorded, made a music video for $6. I navigated public transport with drums gear (never again). Ultimately, covid lockdowns took the wind out of our sails, and we disbanded.
Once you’ve been in a band, it’s very hard to go back to being a solo artist! So it is that I find myself having just recorded my
After high school, I choofed off to get my Bachelor of Music, intending to pursue a career as a film composer. I met lots of like-minded humans, and drank lots of hot chocolate. I was introduced to the history and harmony of soundtracks, and the wonders of collaborating; first with engineers, then session musicians, and eventually co-writers when I joined a band.
Songs kept coming, so I kept recording and releasing them, but I still had no particular plans to be a solo artist. Rhi Miles was just a space where I could experiment. For my EP Kaleidoscope, I wrote parts for violin, harp and organ. I started playing live acoustic shows, learning what audiences responded to (and what they didn’t), and discovering a love for interactive crowd moments.