25 Years Later: Milan Suta and His “Which Way Do I Go”


Many people have something like this – an idea you don’t know what to do with. A novel draft stuck at the third chapter. A photograph that never made it out of the film. A melody spinning in your head but never finding a way out. Milan Suta, an independent Czech producer and synthesist, kept his idea on a 3.5-inch floppy disk. It was 1998. Suta wrote a riff on a Yamaha QS300, recorded it, put it away – and forgot. Or thought he did. Because good ideas don’t just disappear. They wait.

Twenty-five years later, the floppy resurfaced. And with it – the question that gave the title to the single that has just been released: “Which Way Do I Go.” The first thing the ear catches is the scale of the sound. This isn’t a home recording and not a nostalgic exercise of someone who dug up an old demo out of sentimental reasons. Suta went all in: he invited Sandy Beales – the bassist who played on big stages with One Direction and JP Cooper – and Abby Parker, a vocalist with a Dove Award to her name. The result is stadium rock with a bass line that, in Suta’s own words, “hits you right in the chest.” He’s not exaggerating.

Parker’s clear vocals keep the track from becoming cold and calculated – a risk, I think, quite real with such a scale of production ambition. There’s tension here, urgency, the sense that something important is at stake. That someone’s at a crossroads and truly needs an answer. And perhaps that’s the true strength of the song – beyond its incredible backstory. The question it asks is familiar to many. Which way do I go? Not as a cliché of existential crisis, but as that quiet, slightly frightening moment when a person stops, looks at the signs – and doesn’t know which one to follow. Suta searched for his answer for 25 years. There’s something freeing about that.


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