The idea for his own songs was born 2004 together with the first complete home studio. It was envisioned as an unplugged album, carried by Mangara's voice and his acoustic guitar alone. The first results did not meet the singer's expectations. So Mangara launched the label Berlienna Productions with his team: the hiphop-soul producer fanatique (a former roommate from Berlin), the Viennese sound and beat engineer Michael Schrenk and the singer and songwriter Ed from Hannover. The first sampler “digital music – analogue soul“ was released 2006 with support from Wiener Elektroniker KonsortenTM. 2007 Mangara begins intensely with the production of his first album, also developing the idea to have a club version of “Wo gehst du hin“ produced. A musical friendship evolves. Mangara sends the track to Karl Moestl who does not return a club-remix but offers to newly produce the song. The re-production is being tackled with mutual inspiration. But that is not the end of it. Karl Moestl signs the singer with his newly founded indie label Defusion Records to release “Traumpfade“. Voilà, here it is! „Gegen den Wind (Against the wind) wir kreuzen auf (we show up) segeln davon (sail away) wir leben (we live) fühlt sich das nicht gut an (doesn't it feel good)“ ...sings Mangara in “Wind“, a punchy track on his album “Traumpfade“. The path as a theme appears consistently in his songs. Mangara's musical path had quite early beginnings. Only six years old, Matthias kicked off his career as singer with the school and church choirs. Also, the study of the recorder was not to be missed during his traditional musical schooling. As time passed he turned to jazz music and was educated by Sigi Finkel to saxophonist. Instead of finishing the conservatory Mangara launched a punk rock band called Nerz. After a couple of stagediving sessions in good old punk style, he got the urge to produce something of his own. This brought him to electronic music, which strongly shapes “Traumpfade“. Mangara's past influences of hiphop, jazz, punk and pop have formed the album to be what it is today: A strong and very personal piece of Mangara-Story.
