Seja

Seja Vogel started playing music in 1998 as an integral member of Brisbane synth-punk trio Sekiden who have released two albums and two EPs. Sekiden’s high-energy live performances have reverberated worldwide, with extensive touring throughout Australia, Canada, Japan and the USA.  2007 saw Seja join iconic genre-mashers Regurgitator, touring with the band throughout Australia and on numerous overseas jaunts to Japan, China, Europe and Brazil.  In 2010 Seja created a batch of solo pieces under her own name for her debut album We Have Secrets But Nobody Cares. Seja’s solo output is a synthesis of her musical lineage to date, with future-pop production and blissful vocal harmonies. Off the back of a couple of years touring, Seja wrote and recorded a second volume of sweetly synthesised soundscapes entitled All Our Wires. Seja’s second record contrasts her debut with an increased focus on acoustic instrumentation and overlaying refined vocal harmonies and trademark 80’s synth sounds. Seja spent a few years sewing tiny replicas of instruments out of felt and starting up her in-demand music podcast HearSej.  Seja’s third album Here is One I Know You Know is both a leap in production and again an ode to analogue keyboards. Recorded in her home studio in Brisbane, it is a dense collection of squelchy synths, drum machines and computer bongos with an undercurrent of sweet melodies sung about self critical and often tongue in cheek self deprecation.