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I am letting this song to the world on International Women's Day <3
Here are the thoughts from my heart to yours.  They were bubbling in my mind whilst I was recording this piece:

be love supreme
If you blot time and matter, what do you hear?
hearts beating in all hemispheres
If you blot time and matter, what do you feel?
Light and darkness as one
Light is transparent
be the light and open heart
let your heart be out of time and matter
be the universe with no judgement
open arms and caring for each other
becoming a tree that stands strong
be love supreme

Love and Light
Ola

credits
released March 8, 2022
Music and Artwork by Ola Szmidt
Recorded in Warsaw on 23rd February 2022

YÔNGQUÂN

I adore this song so much. I love THE CURE <3

The Cure- Lullaby (Cover)

Notes:

For this song, I challenged myself to use a looper and incorporate Teenage Engineering OP1 in symbiosis with Moog Mother and Moog Subharmonicon. In my mind: my voice and instruments created petioles.

In botany, the petiole is the stalk that attaches the leaf blade to the stem and can twist the leaf to face the sun.

Connecting all the feelings and words for this song to express and define my heart in 3 minutes 33 seconds became my petiole. I twist my heart to you all listening.

Working on this song has taken the walls down within the songwriting process for me. It opened a portal to expressing myself with total trust and flow, where I allow sound to take me, and what I want to say pours out with no pressure from anyone or anything. It is a particular song to me. It sets a clear direction for the LP to come. It is my therapy.

This is also the first time I address and sing about my eye disease, gently letting go of the pain that has caused me every day since I was born. The art cover represents double vision, as this is how I sometimes experience the world. I chose to live looping and looper as a technique many years ago because It helped me to create with eyes closed most of the time so that I could rest them as much as possible. My eyes get quickly tired, and I have a limit on how long I can read and spend time in front of the screens so my vision does not drastically worsen. It took me so many years to accept this song.

Szukam na stole morza oczu
Może nie widzę, a czuję wszystko

On a table, I am searching for a sea of eyes
Maybe I can't see, but I feel everything

Petioles

Experimental artist Ola Szmidt presents the first episode of Deaf Sentense: "It highlights the  timbre of vocals and textures that I’m deeply drawn to as a composer and  a sound therapist. The show includes 30 minutes guest  mix from Greg GTI from Grade10 bringing together French folk, abstract electronic music, and field recordings from his travels in France, weaving a rich soundscape with themes of social commentary."

LOOSE.fm

DEAF SENTENSE W/ OLA SZMIDT + GUEST:  GREG GTI FROM GRADE10 - 25 OCT 24

Eerie, dreamy offering in support of The California Wildfire Relief Fundraiser. Drawn from my private collection of raw, untouched meditative vocal recordings on Roland Loop Station RC-505 MK2.

 Room to Dream emerged in the wake of David Lynch’s passing, a tribute to a visionary whose work shaped my inner landscapes. All pieces from this mini album hold space for stillness, remembrance, and reverie.

Room To Dream

Released with permission from the original artist.  Made out of love for the track.
Huge thanks to Client_03 for the green light <3

Client_03 Bandcamp: https://client03.bandcamp.com/album/testbed-assembly
original track: https://client03.bandcamp.com/track/uncompiledotself

Artwork: Ola Szmidt

Client_03- UncompileDotSelf - (Ola Szmidt Vocal Edit)

Loose FM – Deaf Sentense Episode 2: PETRICHOR w/ Yetsuby

A Seoul-based producer and DJ, Yetsuby is half of Salamanda and also one of the founders of Computer Music Club—a label (but not quite).

1hr show:
🌿 First 30 minutes – An eclectic mix from Ola featuring unreleased tracks, hybrids, and her favourite music inspired by the theme “Smell of Earth After the Rain.”
🌱 Next 30 minutes – A guest mix from Yetsuby filled with ambient and electronica, evoking soil, the forest floor, and fresh new releases.

Artwork design: Karolina Wolska

Loose Fm 20.06.25  DS Petrichor w/ Yetsuby

Created to soothe and soften <3
Part of the release: https://olaszmidt.bandcamp.com/album/summer

Summer

TOUCHING TOO LOUD (single #1) from long awaited Spark In The Machine LP out 1st December 2025
on Bandcamp: https://olaszmidt.bandcamp.com/album/spark-in-the-machine-2

Press Release: 

Ola Szmidt’s music breathes in the rhythm of wounds.
Those visible, and those hidden beneath the skin.

She lets them speak through her in their own language.

It is the voice of women whose tenderness has been silenced for years, pushed into the shadows. Now, in subtle whispers, in trembling resonance, it slowly finds its way to the surface.

Each phrase is like a breath of freedom, a fragile yet courageous touch of the truth. Though still “too loud” for a world accustomed to silence.

This album is an intimate testimony of healing.

A process in which pain does not vanish, but transforms into strength.

In the space between silence and voice, between fragility and courage, Ola captures something essential: the path of reclaiming oneself.

It is music for all those who know that scars are not an end.
They are like a memory. They make us more sensitive and stronger same time. They are like a map leading towards freedom.

Touching Too Loud is a journey through the landscape of body and soul that have learned to live with scars.

They told us to be quiet.
To fold our feelings into silence.
To carry pain like a secret,
and let fear stitch itself into our skin.

But silence is not the end.
Beneath the weight of what was done to us,
our voices never disappeared

TOUCHING TOO LOUD is the sound of that waiting ending.
It is the trembling breath of women rising from shadows,
the fragile resonance of truths once too dangerous to be spoken.
Each musical line is a scar turned into a voice. And from those multiple lines, a song is formed.

This is not music for forgetting what happened.
It is music for remembering.
This is music about growing up, becoming stronger,
For feeling the wound and the healing at once,
for reclaiming the body, the tenderness, the right to be heard.

Here, our voices are no longer small.
They are subtle, yes, but unstoppable.
They are soft, but unbroken.
They are free.

Press Release written by Karolina Wolska
meditativedrawings.com  

#electronica #livelooping #rc505

Spark In The Machine

Pre-Order Deluxe Vinyl

TOUCHING TOO LOUD

This is my 2nd single from  upcoming SPARK IN THE MACHINE LP (out in December)

What's Under Us is a piece born from deep listening and acupuncture practice. It is not the one to skip; it is the one to close your eyes and fall deeply into the well of the words and textures I share. They are from underground, and they are slowly coming to the surface. They blend two hemispheres: LA region land and Kudhva in Cornwall.

Diary note: A tent on a cliffside at Kudhva (2024)
Mist rising. Breath slowing. Rain pouring. Needles resting on my skin. Gathering Qi, listening for the pulse beneath the earth. From this quiet place in mind, a song arrives in my heart. I feel it deeply.  I am peaceful and grounded. I am singing those words and never want to perfect them.  This is the truth of this land,  beings under the land speaking through me. I am crying after recording. Tears of immense release. I love looping on RC-505 mk2,  I feel I can travel anywhere with my voice.

13 What's Under Us  (Kudhva)

Ola Szmidt and Dave Dhonau, composers and friends, shape autumn’s glow into sound, where groove, ambient textures, jazz and soulful noise trace the contours of memory, warmth, and change.

Deaf Sentense w/ Ola Szmidt & guest: David Dhonau - 26 Sep 25

Amelie

Song manifesting mega tuning with your heart, trusting your breath, sensations and what is happening internally. Ren17 is an acupuncture point <3

Ren 17 ( from Spark In The Machine LP)

Vocals, Lyrics-  Ola Szmidt
Recording and Mixing- Ola Szmidt
Mastering -  Kieran Hebden
July, 2017

Wrapped

04 Wrapped

Ep2 Launch Tickets: https://olaszmidt.bandcamp.com/merch/ticket-for-ep2-launch-at-everyman-cinema-york

Ep2 available to pre-order on 12' and Cd here: 
https://olaszmidt.bandcamp.com/

EP2 Launch at Everyman Cinema, York on  Monday 28th of January 2019. Tickets via Bandcamp on Sale: Friday 16/11/18

Official EP2 release 25/01/19
Bandcamp/ Spotify/ itunes/ Deezer ...

Love Yourself

Love Yourself (Single Version)

Track 4 from Ep2 
Live dates: 
22.02- Leicester, St. Nicholas Church 
tickets: https://olaszmidt.bandcamp.com/merch/ticket-for-2202-st-nicholas-church-leicester
11.03, London, Everyman Cinema, Baker Street ( Audio-Visual + Special Guests)
https://olaszmidt.bandcamp.com/merch/ticket-for-ep2-live-on-11-03-everyman-cinema-baker-street-london

https://olaszmidt.bandcamp.com

11/12/2018

04 Washed Away Comedown

Ola Szmidt- Breathin' (Ariana Grande cover)

Recorded at Ola's home studio in York
lyrics
I will learn how to fall 
I will learn how to stand up again 

Don't try to fix me 
Don't try to teach me 
I want to go through the pain on my own 

Everything has beginning 
Everything has the end 

Don't try to carry me to a better place 
I will find my way out of here 
Oooh let it go! 
Don't try! 
Don't try to fix it for me 
Let go! 
Try! 

Everything has the end 
... has the beginning 

I will learn how to fall 
I will learn how to stand up 
Everything has the beginning 
Everything has the end 

Don't try to fix it 
Don't hide 
Have the energy 
So leave me to my own pain

credits
released March 24, 2019 
Ola Szmidt: 
Recording, Mixing 
Bass, vocals, lyrics 

Toby Colcombe: 
Additional Bass

Spring

This Mortal Coil/ Tim Buckley Cover 
Ola Szmidt- Vocals, Flute, RC-505 Loop  Station

Song To The Siren ( This Mortal Coil Cover) live

On my sister's birthday couple years ago, I sat next to my piano and I asked what shall I sing to soothe her and anyone who is suffering in any way. The piano always answers and after couple of hours, I pressed record and lyrics happened at that point, without writing them. I am sharing that moment in time with you. Words came to me like a letter to anyone who is in pain out there. I hope you will find it calming. It is one of those songs hidden on my computer waiting for the day when it could become a medicine and this is a time. I trust my heart and I let this sound bird out.

p.s I was always scared to release this song, time of pandemic made me realise that if I wrote this song, it was written to be shared not hidden. Someone could say it does not fit with where my music is heading, I will argue saying: these are my fingers, my hand and my heart wrapped in the voice recorded, so it does not matter if it os 5 or 10 years ago. It is still me. It is a journey.

I know there is a lot of You out there who will find it healing. I am proud to share such intimate, vulnerable and personal song. It makes me realise that is ok to not be perfect, it is ok to not feel ok and it is ok to cry, as I cried when I was recording this. Not in slightest embarrassed to share this with you. I am a human and as a musician I work with feelings and emotions finding ways to express them to help or simply be.

I am sending you all lots of love and light

Ola x

lyrics:

Have a little faith in yourself
Ocean is deep like your mind
We can get lost in the darkness
I promise to take you out from there
I am gathering positive energy

I follow you, you follow me
even we don't have to speak
I follow you, you follow me
even we don't have to speak

Have a little
Have a little faith
I am running to forest
to recharge your mind
I will find you if you are getting lost
I will follow you
I grab you from dark
dark it's alright
Just to let it go

I follow you
you follow me
I follow you
you follow me
I follow you
you follow me
I follow you
you follow me

Better Future

This is my interpretation of the song written by Bobby Wright in 1974. I heard it first time couple years ago when Melodies International reissued it on 7". I instantly fell in love with Bobby's voice, lyrics, emotion and the message that spreads: the message of love and peace. I worked on my version for two years on and off. I hope it calms and soothes everyone who will listen and I hope that more people will discover Bobby's music.
lyrics
"This world need not hurt no more
Sorry world, even though I love you so

There is no one to turn to
And no one to blame
For the blood of American has scandalized our name

No, world, don't you sit, sit and cry
No, world, don’t you even try

There is no one to turn to
And what will you do
When the blood of American is poured out over you?
When the blood of American is poured out over you?

Who can I turn to?
Who can I turn to?
Who can I turn to?
What will you do?

Evildoing the American has poured out over you
Evildoing of America has rubbed off on you
All the blood of American has scandalized our name
Evildoing of America has scandalized our name"

credits:
Illustration Art Cover: WIRROW
www.instagram.com/wirrow/

Ola Szmidt: Vocals, flute, recording,
mixing on Ableton.

Mastered by Mark Johnston
illeaglesound.com

Blood Of An American

Composer. Producer. Funded by Arts Council England, PRS, mentored by Four Tet.
Bookings: felixshimizu@proton.me

Ola Szmidt

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