I started working on tape project for a local label (Unit Structure Sound Recordings) today. I recently went on a mini-tour with some friends from the label, and the first show we played was in Vancouver. The ride was something like 12 hours, so gruelling. The trip from Vancouver and back is the inspiration for this tape, mainly the theme of loops and repetition that I discovered in many aspects of our journey.

Jericho Tides

This is a track off of a short EP I released last week called 'Structure', prior to my tape later this month, of some recordings I did earlier this year around the idea of textural music. It's a concept I want to pursue further in the coming months.

Structure II

Structure I

Structure III

Structure IV

This is track 2 from 'Shifts'. You can get the digital, or pre-order the tape here: http://valiska.bandcamp.com/album/shifts

Midnight, False Creek

'Scattered Focus' off of Wolf Moon, out now on Bandcamp, available everywhere on April 21st

Wolf Moon

Scattered Focus

Sketches Of Mid-December

Engulfed, the second track off of Wolf Moon

Engulfed

Breathe (For You)

Forgetting Another Year

Learning To Say No

Track 2 off of 'Between Seasons', the upcoming debut album from Osmanthus. 

Between Seasons, the debut album of duo Osmanthus (Laura Reid and Krzysztof Sujata), is a collection of years old recordings waiting for the right time to come to light. Started in spring 2019, the duo began as a one-off pairing for a small gallery show, and quickly moved onto recording and playing regular gigs, only to be shelved temporarily in the fall of 2020.

Recorded in 3 session between the summer’s of 2019 and 2020, the album consists of 6 one take improvisations which were then edited, layered, altered, or left alone, in some combination. With the project files lost due to hard drive failure, the music sat immutable on a cloud backup, in stark contrast to the dynamic process in which they were created.

With the start of 2024 and both members finding themselves back in the same city, these old recordings are finally seeing the light of day.

Laura Reid - Violin
Krzysztof Sujata - Synthesizer, keys and tape

Release date: January 30th
Format: Cassette/Digital
Artwork by May Cloud

Between Seasons

Osmanthus - Bloom (album preview)

Between Seasons, the debut album of duo Osmanthus (Laura Reid and Krzysztof Sujata), is a collection of years old recordings waiting for the right time to come to light. Started in spring 2019, the duo began as a one-off pairing for a small gallery show, and quickly moved onto recording and playing regular gigs, only to be shelved temporarily in the fall of 2020.

Recorded in 3 sessions between the summer’s of 2019 and 2020, the album consists of 6 one take improvisations which were then edited, layered, altered, or left alone, in some combination. With the project files lost due to hard drive failure, the music sat immutable on a cloud backup, in stark contrast to the dynamic process in which they were created.

With the start of 2024 and both members finding themselves back in the same city, these old recordings are finally seeing the light of day.
credits
released January 30, 2024

Laura Reid: Violin
Krzysztof Sujata: Synthesizer, keys and tape loops

All music by Laura Reid and Krzysztof Sujata
Mixed and mastered by Krzysztof Sujata
Album artwork by May Cloud (unsplash.com/@maycloudbackup)
Additional cassette artwork by A Kun (unsplash.com/@akuntime)
Design by Krzysztof Sujata

Osmanthus - Cutting and Layering

Osmanthus - Bloom

Osmanthus - Variegated Forms I, II & III

Osmanthus - In Early Spring

Osmanthus - In Late Fall

Osmanthus - When Winds Blow

This is the 5th track from my upcoming album 'Repetitions'.

I wrote this album after coming back from a trip to Poland in August 2014. It's about my relatives, the farm, the sea, trains and train stations, and other things. I took ideas about repetition and combined them with my experiences from the trip, and ended up with what to me is a very personal album. Two other tracks, 'Held' and 'Escape', were written for a collaborative work between Pamela Tzeng, Jenna Swift and myself called 'What is More'. They provided me texts, descriptions of movement and feeling, and then the music came from that. There was a lot of overlap between this album and that project, and seeing as they fit the mood and worked wonderfully with the flow, it only made sense to include them. I hope you enjoy it!

releases 13 August 2015 

Music by Krzysztof Sujata 
valiska.com 

Mastered by Lawrence English @158 
lawrenceenglish.com 

Cassette Artwork/Design/Logo by Whitney Ota 
whitneyota.com 

Cover photo by Krzysztof Sujata 

Dawn

This is the first track off my upcoming EP 'Healer'.

The EP was recorded entirely using the Moog Sub37 and voice as audio sources. I tried to keep other effects and processing to a minimum, for the most part. For me, this is music to listen to in a quiet setting, or on a nice stroll.

'Healer' will be release on August 1st, on Bow Bottom Records as a digital download.

Healer

Of Water

This track is dedicated to my Dad who passed away unexpectedly in his sleep on Saturday, October 1st. He was 58.

I had originally meant this as a bonus track to be included in the tape release of Healer, and had named it Sleep Now because that's what the music made me think of. But since Saturday, both the track and the name have taken on a completely different meaning to me.

The photo is a polaroid selfie of him from the late 80's, when he was working the US with the hope of bringing my Mom and I over from Poland to North America.

Rest In Peace Dad

Sleep Now (for Dad)

I'm thinking of submitting this for a local series of vinyl compilations.

Photo is from http://www.flickr.com/photos/playingwithpsp/3291313767/ by Playingwithbrushes

Bandcamp

Veil

This is a collaboration I did with Neural Xolotl. We shared some samples and made a track each. This is my contribution, which I posted a work in progress for a few months back and got side tracks. This is that track re-cut. 

You can check out his track here: https://soundcloud.com/venusmoctezuma/abiogenesis-collab-with

The photo is by Tallkev: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tallkev/462966585/

Dusk [Collab with Neural Xolotl]

Here's the full piece. I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it. It was a difficult journey writing this, but I learned so much in the process. 

Accompanying full length video:
vimeo.com/66243764

Composed/Recorded/Mixed: Krzysztof Sujata
Mastered: Rafael Anton Irisarri
Artwork/Design: Whitney Ota 

A Day as a Blade of Grass [available on Inner Ocean Records]

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