Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BB426LP


Colour

Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-03-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

4015698047332


Total Cap

Black LP

BB426

4015698402933


Artist

Saeko Killy

Genre GB

Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

Label GB

Bureau B

Bureau B is an independent record label, music publisher, and booking agency based in Hamburg, Germany. Founded in 2005 by Gunther Buskies as a sister label to Tapete Records, Bureau B specializes in releasing a diverse range of electronic and avant-garde music. With a focus on reissues and new productions, the label has built an extensive catalogue that includes iconic albums from the Krautrock genre of the 1970s and early 1980s. They also release recordings by influential artists such as Die Wilde Jagd, Kreidler, Toulouse Low Trax, and more.

Known for their commitment to preserving classic electronic music, Bureau B has been rereleasing albums from renowned artists like Cluster, Faust, Moebius, Roedelius, Plank, Schickert Schnitzler Tietchens Tyndall. In addition to these reissues, they also release works by similar artists including Blenner Heldon Pinhas Rev or NDW Plan Pyrolator.

With their impressive catalogue and dedication to promoting innovative music across various genres within the electronic spectrum - from pop to avant-garde - Bureau B continues to be a prominent force in the global music industry. Their contributions have solidified them as an authoritative figure in the world of independent labels.

Morphing Polaroids is the debut album by Japanese born Saeko Okuchi alias Saeko Killy for Hamburgbased Bureau B. After moving to Berlin in 2018 Saeko
Killy found herself in the orb of Club Sameheads, where she made herself known as a DJ and live performer. After releasing her first EP " Dancing Pikapika"
with the label Chill Mountain from Osaka in 2021, followed a fruitful Jam session during the pandemic lockdown, resulting in the eleven titles collected together
here for the album 'Morphing Polaroids' produced by Brussels DJ and selector soFa elsewhere. The LP is a contemporary Leftfield Clubsound, effortlessly
combining elements of Dub, Post-Punk and Kraut with electronic Beats. Back in Japan, Saeko Okuchi started to learn the piano as early as four years old and at
sixteen she started to play the guitar. Through her parents influences, Saeko discovered Jazz and Brazilian music. Visiting TechnoParties in Tokyo awoke her
interest in the spheres of electronic dance music. DJs who played renegade club music to the mainstream played an important part in that. Through those DJs,
Saeko discovered artists such as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, who greatly inspired her with their Industrial sounds. Driven by those impulses, Saeko
Killy became a DJ herself. During her time travelling in Brazil, she played at UndergroundParties, organised by the artist collective Voodoohop in São Paulo.
A context that showed free artistic expressions and broadened her horizons, both politically and musically. Alongside DJing, different band projects in Tokyo and
Berlin became her way of experimenting vocally. A Lo-FiImprov-Snapshot of her krautrock-post-punk-esque voice is found on the Vax!-EP (2021) by des
Sameheads on the track "Die in Seconds" by the group "Automattenfall". To produce music herself, for her either English or Japanese lyrics, she began to
experiment with Synthesizers. After the release of the first Saeko Killy EP (2021), the Belgian scene DJ and producer soFa elsewhere asked her to contribute
vocals on his song "The Dream" ("All My Friends Are Witches", Planet Trip, 2022). The musical collaboration worked out so well that he invited Saeko for an
improv Session at his home studio in Brussels: "The whole process was started during the pandemic – I was very depressed at home and soFa pulled me out of
Berlin to Brussels. So I can see through the songs, it was also a process to find my own fire again. The fire looked out but was actually still burning silently; looks
changing, and morphing, but still there, coming back, again and again." The meandering described by Saeko Killy during the production process is reflected in the
album title as well as in the lyrics and sound of the entire record especially the lyrics to "Sun Shower" and "Intimate Flame” which describe the resurgence of her
artistic vigour after it being dulled down and paralysed by the pandemic lockdown. The two found out that they complement each other delightfully and had much
fun recording many tunes, from which this album came into being. This interplay virtually challenges the intuitively emerging lyrics. Almost rapped the voice
becomes an instrument. Morphing Polaroids casts a spell as psychedelic dance music, which unfolds its magic through a certain form of opposing disturbance,
similar to the Japanese avant-garde

Morphing Polaroids

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