Album · full production cycle
Vytynanka
KOZAK SIROMAHA & Gordiy Starukh · 2024 · 10 tracks
Composer · Producer · Arranger · Mixing · Mastering
A full-length album written and built end to end, composition, arrangement, production, mixing and mastering all in the same hands. Named after vytynanka, the Ukrainian paper-cutting tradition, the record puts traditional instrumentation and folk vocal writing at the centre of a modern production. It was prepared with a Grammy submission in mind.
10 tracks · 25 min. Co-writer on the music of every track, then the whole chain in the same hands: arrangement, production, mix and master.
- 01Intro1:36
- 02Tanok1:53
- 03Balada2:48
- 04Trojan1:51
- 05Haiem2:00
- 06Gop3:04
- 07Bolotyshche3:25
- 08Metelytsia2:18
- 09Dnipro5:00
- 10Outro0:48
Co-writing
Credited as co-author of the music across the whole record, not a track here and there, the full album.
Arrangement
Every part scored and voiced before tracking, the record was designed, not assembled.
Production
Session direction, sound design and the full sonic architecture across ten tracks.
Mix & master
Finished in the same room it was built in, one set of ears from the first demo to the final master.