ZKRY takes me straight to his piano when I walk into his apartment and he’s excited to show me the new music he’s been working on this morning. His place is full of his instruments and paintings. He’s the first electronic artist I’m interviewing for this podcast. We sit on his couch and dive straight into a nerdy conversation about his passion for music that started as a kid when he would go to music shops, hotels and bars just to get his hands on a piano. He went on to study business and piano performance at university and he’s now performing around Seattle whenever he gets the chance. In this episode, ZKRY shares with us how performing music is like skateboarding, why it’s worth focusing on the art instead of the business and his attention to detail when creating music videos and sound engineering.

→ BLOG POST (Video, Quotes, & Photos)

https://chawilde.com/blog/9-focus-on-the-art-because-thats-what-its-really-about-with-zkry-wilde-musicians-podcast

→ Watch on Youtube

https://youtu.be/-JuJy_uyRXM

→ ZKRY

Producer, Sound Designer, Songwriter | Seattle, WA

http://zkrymusic.com/index.html

→ Wilde Musicians Podcast

chawilde.com/podcast

CHA WILDE

chawilde.com

@chawilde

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When you sing the word “condom” on a cruise ship, heads will turn. Emily McVicker and Chris Jordan met as performing musicians on a cruise ship and they now perform as a live looping band (Octomalien) in the Seattle scene. Just us for this comfy episode as we sit crisscross on their living room floor surrounded by instruments and talk about cruise ship life, songwriting at 4 am, the benefits of studying competitive piano performance, and how to write catchy songs about baby mermaids and condoms.

→ BLOG POST (Video, Quotes, & Photos)

https://chawilde.com/blog/when-you-sing-the-word-condom-on-a-cruise-ship-with-emily-mcvicker-and-chris-jordan-wilde-musicians-podcast

→ Watch on Youtube

https://youtu.be/mbRf9Jk7dCU

→ EMILY MCVICKER & CHRIS JORDAN OF OCTOMALIEN

Singer-Songwriter | Seattle, WA

http://www.emilymcvicker.com/

→ Wilde Musicians Podcast

chawilde.com/podcast

CHA WILDE

chawilde.com

@chawilde

♡ OTHER PLACES TO FIND ME ♡

↠ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/0zwsrpWYJ7ZFraivcuPHv1

↠ Website - http://www.wildeasfuck.com

↠ Instagram - https://instagram.com/chawilde

↠ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/chawilde/

↠ Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/chawilde

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When Katie Kuffel sings, my jaw drops…every time. She started writing songs in high school to release angst and since 2013 or so she’s been mastering the hustle, running her fully-time music business and juggling illustration and bartending on the side. Katie sings about mental health, sexual identity, assault, general well-being, and recovery and most of her followers are young women, non-binary individuals, LGBTQ, very liberal minded humans.

She currently leads a trio band and like I said, when she sings, I’m always surprised by its power. For this interview, Katie welcomes me into her adorable old house in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle; full of plants, rubber stamps, leather boots drying with fresh polish on the self, a weird-ass retro leg lamp, a cello, and a piano. Join us as we drink tea in her kitchen corner and discuss the juggling act of running a business and creating art, how to read the room as a performer, our feelings about fame and big egos, how to connect with fans through social media and what Katie calls ‘the fuck it adjustment”.

→ BLOG POST (Video, Quotes, & Photos)

https://chawilde.com/blog/i-realized-theres-a-fuck-it-adjustment-that-comes-with-being-a-musician-with-katie-kuffel-wilde-musicians-podcast

→ Watch on YouTube

https://youtu.be/-SfoVgxi_Ik

→ Katie Kuffel

Singer-Songwriter | Seattle WA

https://www.katiekuffel.com/

→ Wilde Musicians Podcast

chawilde.com/podcast

→ Cha Wilde

http://chawilde.com

@chawilde

As a child, Heather Edgley used to keep her music “in the closet” because life as a professional musician was a pipe dream. One step at a time, she’s walked her way into the Seattle music scene and is now known for the creative themed shows that she organizes. In this episode, on a dark rainy winter night, Heather and I drink tea on the sidewalk outside Chocolati Cafe in Wallingford, Seattle and talk about how scary it is to share your music and start performing, how writing sad songs is great therapy and how to organize your own shows with creative strategies to draw a larger local crowd.

→ BLOG POST (Video, Quotes, & Photos)

https://chawilde.com/blog/facing-fear-and-organizing-creative-local-shows-with-heather-edgley

→ Watch on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJHQTd522Sg&list=PLIFs_tRnZSRv7ZVSqI_TnSj6FMolEVdsw&index=6

→ Heather Edgley

Singer-Songwriter | Seattle WA

https://www.heatheredgley.com/

→ Wilde Musicians Podcast

chawilde.com/podcast

→ Cha Wilde

http://chawilde.com

@chawilde

Fresh out of Silicon Valley, singer-songwriter Spence Hood is exploring the Seattle music scene while intentionally building his online following through Instagram where you’ll find him posting rotoscope animation music videos and streams his night LIVE “Pajama Jams”. Spence and I met when we were both performing on the rooftop of a skyscraper (‘Art on the Rooftop’ event hosted by Justin Blanley) and we enjoy meeting up to discuss branding strategy, especially regarding Instagram and the visuals we both enjoy creating to promote our music.

→ BLOG POST (Video, Quotes, & Photos)

https://chawilde.com/blog/2019/2/8/5-artist-expression-vs-cohesive-branding-on-instagram-with-spence-hood-wilde-musicians-podcast

→ Watch on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f90Ic4adfqk&t=9s

→ Spence Hood

Singer-Songwriter | Seattle WA

http://spencehood.com/

→ Wilde Musicians Podcast

chawilde.com/podcast

→ Cha Wilde

http://chawilde.com

@chawilde

Let’s step inside Tyler Hamilton’s funky artist loft in Ballard, Seattle; it’s full of handmade musical equipment — he never wants any of his musical equipment to have a logo other than “Hamilton” on it. Coffee is brewing, his girlfriend is running out the door and we sit down to talk about the nerves he feels before he walks on stage, how he plays with people’s emotions, why it’s a good idea to record albums at the end of tours, and why rule-free house shows are the best gigs.

→ BLOG POST (Video, Quotes, & Photos)

http://www.chawilde.com/blog/people-just-want-to-see-you-have-fun-on-stage-with-tyler-hamilton-wilde-musicians-podcast

→ Tyler Hamilton

Singer-Songwriter, Guitarist, Amp Builder | Seattle WA

https://tyler-hamilton.com/music

@guitylerham

→ Wilde Musicians Podcast

chawilde.com/podcast

→ Cha Wilde

chawilde.com/

@chawilde

Let’s step inside Tyler Hamilton’s funky artist loft in Ballard, Seattle; it’s full of handmade musical equipment — he never wants any of his musical equipment to have a logo other than “Hamilton” on it. Coffee is brewing, his girlfriend is running out the door and we sit down to talk about the nerves he feels before he walks on stage, how he plays with people’s emotions, why it’s a good idea to record albums at the end of tours, and why rule-free house shows are the best gigs.

→ BLOG POST (Video, Quotes, & Photos)

http://www.chawilde.com/blog/people-just-want-to-see-you-have-fun-on-stage-with-tyler-hamilton-wilde-musicians-podcast

→ Tyler Hamilton

Singer-Songwriter, Guitarist, Amp Builder | Seattle WA

https://tyler-hamilton.com/music

@guitylerham

→ Wilde Musicians Podcast

chawilde.com/podcast

→ Cha Wilde

chawilde.com/

@chawilde

Time to hang out with my friend and fellow singer-songwriter, Alie Byland, a.k.a. “Desert Mama Girl” (so called by her band members). She songwrites, sings, plays acoustic and electric guitar and she’s the front woman of Byland. Alie and I met in a courtyard in downtown Seattle and talked for almost an hour about self-discipline to practice music when everyone else is watch Netflix, the value of vocal coaching, cultivating a relationship with “Creativity” and how it feels to perform on stage.

→ BLOG POST (Video, Quotes, & Photos)

https://chawilde.com/blog/discipline-when-everyone-else-is-watching-netflix-alie-byland-byland-music-wilde-musicians-podcast-episode-3

→ Watch on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krsX91PNxwg

→ Alie Byland

Singer-Songwriter, Front Woman of Byland Music | Seattle WA

https://www.bylandmusic.com/

@bylandmusic

→ Wilde Musicians Podcast

chawilde.com/podcast

→ Cha Wilde

http://chawilde.com

@chawilde

Time to hang out with my friend and fellow singer-songwriter, Alie Byland, a.k.a. “Desert Mama Girl” (so called by her band members). She songwrites, sings, plays acoustic and electric guitar and she’s the front woman of Byland. Alie and I met in a courtyard in downtown Seattle and talked for almost an hour about self-discipline to practice music when everyone else is watch Netflix, the value of vocal coaching, cultivating a relationship with “Creativity” and how it feels to perform on stage.

→ BLOG POST (Video, Quotes, & Photos)

https://chawilde.com/blog/discipline-when-everyone-else-is-watching-netflix-alie-byland-byland-music-wilde-musicians-podcast-episode-3

→ Watch on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krsX91PNxwg

→ Alie Byland

Singer-Songwriter, Front Woman of Byland Music | Seattle WA

https://www.bylandmusic.com/

@bylandmusic

→ Wilde Musicians Podcast

chawilde.com/podcast

→ Cha Wilde

http://chawilde.com

@chawilde

As a music teacher and touring performer, Drea knows what makes music technically good but she’s happy to experiment, take risks and break the rules if she likes how something sounds. From the chaos of songwriting to making friends in the music industry, she’s all about taking the route that is fun and weird.

→ Watch on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4L3FmIGD2g

→ BLOG POST (Video, Quotes, & Photos)

https://chawilde.com/blog/because-its-fun-is-the-best-reason-with-drea-marilyn-wilde-musicians-podcast

→ Drea Marilyn

Singer-Songwriter | Seattle WA

https://www.facebook.com/drea.marilyn/

@dreamarilyn

→ Wilde Musicians Podcast

chawilde.com/podcast

→ Cha Wilde

chawilde.com/

@chawilde