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This song Wedding at Ste-Polycarpe has DJ Sayian playing an old piano up in a back room of a country house in Ontario. Tom Badumptiz joins in with some steady simple trap work. Gretchen Zorn plays bass. It is a story song about the occasion of a wedding. Psychologically the point of view in the story drifts into the mind of 3 characters: a taciturn Scott bachelor who feels his old gang growing up and leaving him behind but at the same time being happy for them finding love; a young child who has gotten up early while the revelers slumber and gone outside to wander the small town unattended and revel at his freedom, recalling how he came on a long road trip to get there; and a musician taking solace in the sounds of an old piano being joined by a couple of other players. This track is available on the DJ Sayian 1st album, on Bandcamp. It is also on Soundcloud with the lyrics.

This song “How the Lake Thinks of the Sky.” Music and words composed by DJ Sayian.
Performed by DJ Sayian Band, with Hans “Austin” Otto, playing two tracks on classical Acoustic Guitar, Tom Badumptiz riding the cymbal like rain plashing, Gretchen Zorn playing cello, and DJ Sayian also double tracking on Sanur Shimmer synthesizer and using the Muykonos elements sampler in the synthesizer to play the rain.

This whimsical piece is gets its refrain from the children’s song, Its Raining Its Pouring. The rhythm is made to synch with a video of rain falling on the surface of a puddle. The poem goes into a simplified explanation of the water cycle as the music, in synch with the video, cycles back on itself. This track is available on the DJ Sayian 1st album, on Bandcamp. Coming to Amazon and iTunes one hopes. If it doesn't play here check it out on youtube: RainSynth Music Puddle Song to see the video on Youtube.

The South American feel of this tune, suits the subject of the poem by Mary Oliver titled The River, about the mighty Amazon. Tom Badumptiz keeps a steady samba beat, guest flutist Ierto Webster plays a composition by DJ Sayian who plays, the Ithaca Vox synthesizer. The music undulates along in a steady ostinato; DJ Sayian tries to do justice to the beautiful lyrics by singing them. The video is of the lyrics.

This song You Know Who You Are, takes an existential stance about standing up for who you are no matter how humble. Gretchen Zorn is in the zone with a big bad thumping electric bass. She double tracks with extra electric bass fingering. Tom Badumptiz is keeping the beat like riding a horse. Hans “Austin” Otto, is playing the steel string acoustic. DJ Sayian is playing electric piano, and double tracking on the whirly synth which has almost a dense glass hollow column sound. The eye tries to synch the sound with the video of two butterflies kerfuffling in flight over country wheat fields. They are humble and joyous, like the music. This track is available on the DJ Sayian 1st album, on Bandcamp. It is also on Soundcloud with the lyrics.