Andrew Mitchell, a Scottish composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, adopts the alias Andrew Wasylyk when issuing reflective yet luminous instrumental works. Pastoral jazz, experimental post-rock tendencies, and subtle electronic accents run through his sound, achieving their fullest expression across a trilogy of albums shaped by the landscape of eastern Scotland. Several years in the making, the series reached its close with the graceful 2020 album Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation.
Mitchell formed the Andrew Wasylyk project after performing with multiple bands, unveiling the first release under the name, Soroky, in 2015. That debut leaned toward singer/songwriter territory and placed vocals at the forefront. Two years later came the more restrained instrumental album Themes for Buildings and Spaces, which took its cues from the settings of his hometown Dundee and launched the landscape trilogy; the sequence continued with The Paralian in 2019 and concluded with the aforementioned 2020 release. Alongside those installments, 2020 also brought a self-titled EP with a stronger rock emphasis and a collaboration with poet Liz Lochhead titled Still Life, Sweetheart.
