Discography


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COMPILATION - KAFKA / TOWARD MINOR TRIVIAL
CDR 2008 Doppelganger Records (DPCDR-125)

Track: False Ring Answered

Personnel: Samsa
Recorded: August 2008 at Grey Hat Terminal

Notes: Constructed using lost remnants from Samsa material from 2000-2002

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CIRCLE OF PINES - DARKWATER POND
MP3 2006 Dark Winter (dw030)

Tracks: Lichen Ritual / Wasser-Madrigal / Cove Point / Down to the Dreamy Sky / Cloak of Fog / Zerfrorenes Glas / Mossiges Kissen / Fissures

Personnel: Samsa, Seetyca
Recorded: April-October 2006 at Dark Winter Studios and mbira v.04 studios

Notes: Collaboration between Seetyca and Samsa

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SAMSA - FOREST WITHOUT TREES
MP3 2006 Dark Winter (dw025)

Tracks: Armchair Assention / Belief Revision / Centering Prayer / Devine Subconsciousness / Evening Meditation / Feedback Cleansing / Genetic Memories / Heightened Essence / Introlateral Call / Journey Beyond / Knowing Nothing

Personnel: Samsa
Recorded: January-April 2006 at Dark Winter Studios

Notes: Final full length album. Dedicated to alternative forms of meditation and mind expansion.

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COMPILATION - FROZEN LIGHT
CDR 2006 Essentia Mundi (EM002)

Track: Drawing Oceans

Personnel: Samsa
Recorded: February 2006 at Dark Winter Studios

Notes: Limited Edition of 100 on Romaninan Essentia Mundi Records

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COMPILATION - FROM A DARKENED POOL
MP3 2005 Dark Winter (special3)

Tracks: Deportation Point / Soft Hardware

Personnel: Samsa
Recorded: October 2005 Dark Winter Studios

Notes: A 2-disc compilation of artists who created original recordings using a loop package once available on Dark Winter

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LOOP COLLECTION - DARK WINTER / ABLETON LIVE 5 - LOOP PROJECT
MP3 2005 Dark Winter (special2)
WAV 2005 Dark Winter (special2

Tracks: Drone 1 / Drone 2 / Rhythm 1 / Vocal 1 / Vocal 2

Personnel: Samsa
Recorded: August 2005 Dark Winter Studios

Notes: A dark ambient loop package for Ableton Live 5. 30 loops in 5 categories by 5 Dark Winter artsts.

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COMPILATION - FULL COLD MOON - A Tribute to Jhonn Balance and the Musick of COIL
MP3 2004 Dark Winter (special1)
MP3 2005 Dark Winter (special1)

Track: Distant Procession

Personnel: Samsa
Recorded: November 2004 Dark Winter Studios

Notes: "Full Cold Moon" was only available for one moon cycle after which, the project was removed from Dark Winter. With the first anniversary of Jhonn's passing and the release of the final COIL disc "The Ape Of Naples", this amazing tribute project was available once again for one last moon cycle. The second time around saw the inclusion of several bonus tracks.

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COMPILATION - BIAS
MP3 2004 Luumu Records (LREC004)

Track: Broken Twenty

Personnel: Samsa
Recorded: April 2004 at Dark Winter Studios

Notes: Bias is mixture of noise, ambient, drone and abstract digital sounds. Artists are also mixture of more or less known bands from noise/ambient scene. Artists are coming from USA (Jeff Surak aka Violet, Samsa, Glass Box, Datura 1.0), Puerto Rico (Jorge Castro), Germany (Plastikk), Finland (Rihmasto)

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SAMSA - RETURN OF THE SOFA KING
MP3 2003 Dark Winter (dw010)

Tracks: Confidential Submission / Plastic Echoes / Mouthful of Ashes / Near the Center / Frequent Repetition / Devine Rapture / Unyou / Beyond Brightness / Assemblage of Forms / Close the Eyes

Personnel: Samsa
Recorded: Tracks 1-3 recorded March 24, 2004 / Tracks 4-6 recorded June 29, 2004 / Tracks 7-10 recorded September 25, 2004

Notes: All tracks recorded live during the "Sonic Seance" series held at Magus Books & Herbs

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FADLADDER - IT'S ABOUT LOVE
MP3 2004 Dark Winter (dw009)

Track: Children of the Monolith / Facing A Wall Of Eyes / "After a Divers Form" / Starseed (it's about love) / Heaven's Above / Circumpolar Star

Personnel: Fadladder (David and Noel Miller) with Nathan Larson (computer, fx, etc.)
Recorded: October 2004

Notes: 100% Fadladder with treatments and alterations by Samsa (both live and studio). Tracks 2-4 recorded live 10/26/04 at the acadia cabaret theater as part of their "every other tuesday" improv series.

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COLLABORATION - SAMSANGELSWING - DREAM SPLINTERS IN THE DOORWAY
MP3 2003 Dark Winter (dw006)
CDR 2003 Dark Winter (dw06)

Tracks: Chainsaws Cut Through Bone Like Butter / Surrounded By Nothing / Electro Like the Stye of Infidelity / Cloud of Blisters / 13 Fingers Around Your Neck / Train Locator / My Spine is on a Tombstone / Central Placement / Wings Buried in a Bucket of Teeth / Smell of a Burning Town / Urbanization & Industrialization / Freeway Execution Ice Cream Style / Final Disaster / Butter Cuts Through Chainsaws LIke Bone

Personnel: Samsa, ANGELswing, Stephanie Marks (Source Violin)
Recorded: June/July 2003 Dark Winter Studios (Mpls, MN), Lucifers Ribcage (Courtice, ONT)

Notes: "Dream Splinters in the Doorway" was created using a variety of different collaboration methods. After the project was completed it was pushed even further by creating remixes of the collaboration tracks.

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SAMSA - MECHANICALLY SEPERATED
MP3 2003 Dark Winter (dw003)
CDR 2003 Dark Winter (dw03)

Tracks: Consulting The Oracle / Long Time No More / Ubligum Day (early version) / Back Wash / Chaotic Space / Irregular Formation / Paper Bird (alternate version) / Target To Far / Dawn Key / Ninety-Five (live)

Personnel: Samsa
Recorded: 2000 - 2003

Notes: These tracks represent the outakes from "The Laurentian Divide" and "Sounds Good On Paper".

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COMPILATION - DRONE DOWNLOAD PROJECT
MP3 2002 Dark Duck Records (DDP)
CD 2003 Dark Duck Records (Year 1)

Tracks: Insomnia and Anxiety / Paralytic State / Hungry Umbrella Sunshine

Personnel: Samsa
Recorded: January 2003 at Dark Winter Studios

Notes: A massive ongoing compilation spanning over 4 years. "Insomnia and Anxiety" was released in 2002. "Paralytic State" and "Hungry Umbrella Sunshine" were featured on the "Year 1" data disc reeleased in 2003.

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SAMSA - SOUNDS GOOD ON PAPER
MP3 2003 Dark Winter (dw002)
CDR 2003 Dark Winter (dw02)

Tracks: Drifter / Plate Walk Away / Goat Abyssal / Unused Vessels / Dead Telephones / Quantum Foam / Vertical Dust / Ubligum Day / Still Do / Enter Pictures / Forward Music / Temporal Lobes / Vertigo Blow / Residual / Whiskey Ditch / Unstable Molecule / Nolder / Lone Star / Paper Bird / Uphill Both Ways

Personnel: Samsa
Recorded: 2003 Dark Winter Studios

Notes: Considered Samsa's "Punk Rock" album due to the short length of some tracks.

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SAMSA - THE LAURENTIAN DIVIDE
MP3 2002 Dark Winter (dw001)
CDR 2002 Dark Winter (dw01)

Tracks: Channelate / Glow, Sparkle, Dust / Perfectly Flawed / Leaving Trees / Edge of Forever / From The Mountain / Oru Skies / Ghostly Devices / One of the Above / Silence Within / Make Me Know / Ninety-Five / Skies Over St. Peter

Personnel: Samsa
Recorded: 2000 - 2002 Dark Winter Studios

Notes: Debut full length by Samsa.

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COMPILATION - CONVERGENT EVOLUTION
CD 1999 Green House Music (GHM.99.01)

Track: Long Since Gone

Personnel: Samsa
Recorded: May 1999 in The Living Room

Notes: "Convergent Evolution" was an eight track CD compilation featuring unreleased and exclusive tracks by Steve Roach, Samsa, Vidna Obmana, Vir Unis, Exuviae etc....

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