"The time of the long, snowy, frosty Russian winters, when there is no way to just walk along in the frozen but still vibrant and beautiful city. You can only run, gritting your teeth from the cold, wrapping your face in a scarf, freezing for a moment on the embankment to admire the blocks of crystal that cover the river. Hundreds of thousands of little icebergs, crashing into each other.

You run further, crossing squares and canals, marveling for the thousandth time at the architecture and beauty, the mystical atmosphere of the deserted night streets, mentally greeting their eternal inhabitants: the stone lions, sphinxes, horses, Atlanteans, angels and chimeras. I'm running to catch the last bridge, to get from the mainland to the island, to where my house is.

If I am late and they split the bridge, then I stay on the other side, until the early morning. When this happens I go to the nearest bar, warm myself in a corner, then take out a notebook and write. Something of its own, something natural. Into a white void."

Galina Ozeran, St.Petersburg (2012)

Design & Layout by Shawn Reed

Mastering by Oliver Kuusmann

released by Crash Symbols
June 25, 2021

Buy the album/cassette

Chikiss - Something Natural (Crash Symbols, 2021)

Sad romantic collection

Collaborations/ Side-projects/ Remixes

"The enigmatic and expressive Chikiss breaks a three-year silence with Between Time and Laziness, a brand-new LP of dramatic and dreamlike synthpop perfectly suited to Hamburg’s unfaltering Bureau B. Written in St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Athens, and co-produced by Finnish multi-instrumentalist Jaakko Eino Kalevi, the album renders the existential, psychological, and philosophical in song form. Exploring motivation and self-doubt, the long shadow of the Soviet Union, and collective empathy with a cinematic flair, Chikiss weighs darkness and light, landing on the side of hope in her most considered and polished vocal album to date."

— Patrick Ryder

Music, vocals - Galina Ozeran
Mixing - Robin Hunt
Co-production - Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Guitar in "Nevesta" - Obi Blanche
Voice in "Intro" - Sergey Danilov
Mastering - Detlef Funder
Artwork - The Great Fruit

Recorded at different times in the former bridal gown salon in St.Petersburg, Atlas studio in Berlin and Mutual Sound studio in Athens.

released December 6, 2024 via Bureau B
https://orcd.co/chikiss

Between Time and Laziness (Bureau B, 2024)

DJ of Tomorrow/ mixtapes

https://soundcloud.com/mustelide
https://soundcloud.com/chikissecrets
https://soundcloud.com/sameheads
Buy Release: https://sameheads.bandcamp.com/album/vax
YouTube: https://youtu.be/dQsxboMkp9E

“Vax!” - Reminiscent of all the slippery vinyl that glitched under so many sweaty wet fingers in a steamy basement before time - a picture that seems highly illegal in our current antiseptic climate of hopefully germ free adolescents. Vax-inate! Give them the needle! It’s time.

Deti Vechnosti - Pered Rassvetom opens the gates to plug into the socket of our collective deranged consciousness, generating frisky and flamboyant specks to brightening darkness that confines our lives. Offering glimpses of the great unknown we also carry within. The Track introduces Chikiss & Mustelide’s new group “Deti Vechnosti”.

Alexander Arpeggio & OhLandy’s “Der Anruf”, wich originally appeared as a French language version on a previous Sameheads / Diapason tape release tells those tales of hot and hotter heat. Karmic payback for the sweaty and long nights enveloped in the halo of resonating frequencies of silly and high-spirited mischief.

Rouge Mécanique - Down the Line - follows suite in the odyssey that is a demented night out, sitting in front of a club, realising that the leatherjacket you picked up a few streets ago from the ground doesn’t smell like adventure but like spew.

The B-Side opens with Automatenfall - a hardware electronic 3 piece, previously appearing live at Sameheads during a “My Friend calls it K-Jazz” event. A yearning that eventually gets us on a spiritual path and headed toward enlightenment through the meandering melange of chimes, that little sounds that usually overcome us in the weirdest of times.

Das Kinn - the new project from Toben Piel, who’s part of Frankfurt’s MMODEM family, and one half of Les Trucs evokes memories of better days, black leatherpants - think Falco meets DAF - Überpop for the Untergrund.

Stopping for a final coup d'œil is Alessandro Adriani’s - Preserved Data Space. A persuasive case of brutally but lovingly worked machines serenading sawtooth waves of an infinite Weiter, a dissolving timeframe - the longest after hour I’ve been to, it lasts more than a year now already and counting.

Tracklist: 

Side A:
A1. Deti Vechnosti - Pered Rassvetom
A2. Alexander Arpeggio & OhLandy - Der Anruf
A3. Rouge Mécanique - Down the Line

Side B:
B1. Automattenfall - Die in Seconds
B2. Das Kinn - Das Kinn
B3. Alessandro Adriani - Preserved Data Space

Vax!

Pered Rassvetom

PREMIERE: Deti Vechnosti - Pered Rassvetom [Sameheads]

Тема дома

Maaamm

Красные вспышки деревьев

Time Tunnel

Gizem

Single "Зачем ты плачешь"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu_b7vnvk5w 

Premier: 30.11.2021

Music: Chikiss
Lyrics: Boris Pokid'ko
Sound/Mastering: Robin Hunt

...

Зачем ты плачешь, все равно умрешь 
И по дороге что-то потеряешь
А если миг – и песню не пропеть 
Да и о чем тебе осталось спеть? 
О чем молчать? Похожа ты на лед
Соленых слез, застывших невпопад
Но неужели чудо не придет?
И жизнь всего лишь бесконечный ад?

Но сон – всего лишь сон, и утром вновь 
Поля набьются юною травой 
И может быть придет к тебе любовь
Ты по дороге к ней тихонько спой

Вновь лето только что опять прошло
Мечты умрут в заоблачном гробу
И только лучик солнца сквозь стекло
Осыплет поцелуями судьбу
И в час, когда не в силах губ разжать
Безмолвие застынет в тишине
Пойдет свинец за облаком мерцать
И ртуть сиять в небесной синеве

Но сон – всего лишь сон, и утром вновь 
Поля набьются юною травой 
И может быть придет к тебе любовь
Ты по дороге к ней тихонько спой

И вот твой кон закончиться сумел
Напрасно смерть боялась не прийти
И только лучик солнца на окне
Ведь ты свою любовь  смогла найти.

...

Why are you crying, you will die anyway. 
And you will lose something along the way.
And if one jiffy. And you can’t sing this song? 
And what are you left to sing about?
What is this silence about? 
You look like the ice from salty tears, 
Frozen out of place. 
Well, really, a miracle will not come, 
And life is just endless hell?

But a dream is just a dream.
And again tomorrow the fields will be filled with new grass.
And maybe love will come to you.
Sing quietly along the road to her.

Summer has just passed again. 
Dreams will die in a sky-high grave. 
And only a ray of sunshine 
Through the glass will shower fate with kisses.
And at an hour when you can't unclench your lips, 
Silence will freeze in the sky, 
And lead will gleam behind the cloud,
And mercury will shine in the heavenly blue.

But a dream is just a dream.
And again tomorrow the fields will be filled with new grass.
And maybe love will come to you.
Sing quietly along the road to her.

And now your round has managed to end.
And death would not come in vain. 
And only a ray of sun shines on the window, 
Because you could find your love.

Зачем Ты Плачешь (Why You Cry)

Dance in spite of despair, shine in total darkness...

Debut single of the collaboration of two Belarusian artists Galya Chikiss and Sveta Ben.  

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHbcNbsT-Fo

Music, lyrics, vocals - Sveta Ben
Music, arrangement, mixing - Galya Chikiss
Mastering - Robin Hunt


Lyrics in English:

There was such a beautiful mirror ball,
Such a beautiful mirror ball was spinning there,
Slippery floor, flimsy chair, sticky bar ...
But there was such a beautiful mirror ball…

Mirror ball

My story was so dark, long and boring
And to in short,
I feel - this is the end 
The world is so dark and dangerous,
I'm out of sync with him,
The evacuation plan is clear, but not doable. 

Mirror ball

There was such a beautiful mirror ball.
Gingerbread man, take a hit.
Glue up with sticky dough
Your broken paradise
But to be honest with you
You must die

But the ball spoke:
- Lie!
You will never die!
You are dancing -
You will never die!
Look in my eyes! Am I lying, am I lying ?!
You dance - you will never die
I'm spinning - and I will never die
I'm spinning just for you, only for you, only for you
Your mirror ball
only for you, only for you

Your mirror ball…

Premier: 16.11.2021

Света Бень & Галя Чикис - Зеркальный Шар // Sveta Ben and Galya Chikiss - Mirrorball

Video: https://youtu.be/gGvUW9W5ZbE

Ian Curtis

The turtle takes a step in a while
And a breath in a mile,
It thinks once a week,
And it’s reluctant to speak.
My heart is knocking outside,
Its place is being occupied
By the dark evil sea running high.
I’m going deaf to stay sound
Not a whisper around
I’m listening to the waves
To survive and be safe,

And the only one I can hear is Curtis Ian.
I feel bad for myself.
I feel bad for myself.
And I hug myself.
And I rescue myself.
And I wrap myself.
And I put myself away.
No more news I need! No more news I need!
Fuck the fucking newsfeed!

I drop my eyelids
Not to kill with my gaze,
And I stay blind for days,
 
And the only one I can see is Curtis Ian

Света Бень & Галя Чикис - Кёртису // Sveta Ben & Galya Chikiss - For Curtis

Black Steel Cans

Time is breathing on every thing
with a clouds of chlorine
Watching us through a hole of a toilet
Stuffing things with a body fat filling
Time’s not gonna replace you a hand
It’s not gonna restore you a spine
If you don’t let it cripple you out
Time is healing

I will have to forget to survive
Not to kill anyone
I’m forgetting I’m stayin alive

Black cans twanging the black city streets
They deliver black milk to the kids
Big enough to contain all of us
Five person per glass
People looking like coffins on wheels
Chalk some interesting doors with a crosses
They have questions to ask 
So get ready
If you live behind interesting door
They are at your floor
Already
 
I will have to forget to survive
Not to kill anyone
I’m forgetting I’m stayin alive

I need hundreds of millions of tons
Truckfuls of garbage and stones
Need to muffle this voice of a pain
That drives me insane
 
I am breathing with silicone lungs
Alveoli become fiberglass
Spiky branches inside of my head
And a window with burgundy blinds
 
I will have to forget to survive
Not to kill anyone
I’m forgetting I’m stayin alive
Only those who were never alive
Will survive
At the gates of detention prisons
They are getting in twos
Not afraid of a knife wounds
They can easily turn into spirits
With their bags full of cigarettes and linens
Only those will be breathers
Bus-stop kissers
Life givers
I let go of the horror
This fear of a swine
From the deep of my spine
From the darkest of houses
Which is no longer mine
And I have to forget to stop suffering
Not sure if I can make it happen

Света Бень & Галя Чикис - Чёрные бидоны // Sveta Ben & Galya Chikiss - Black Steel Cans

Aliens

I wish that majestic alien-friends would come and get me out of here as fast as possible,
 as long as I still have the strength to believe that behind my house is not a scrapyard,
 but a real sea, where seagulls sing. 
But even if that isn’t true, I’ll still wait for signals from other planets.

Света Бень & Галя Чикис - Я слышу чаек // Sveta Ben & Galya Chikiss - I hear seagulls

Do not be sad about anything, everything will pass, it will end.
It will grind like flour, turn to dust.

A crocodile is walking, a hippopotamus is swimming,
Everything passes and passes and will pass finally.
Sleep and don't think about anything.

Where are your thoughts? They’re hung up on the snot.
Where are your worries? They don't remember who you are.
Where are your victories? Say goodbye to them.
Where was everything? There. Where everything was.

Don't whine, don't be sad.
It hurts everyone.
Everyone has their own unequal battle with themselves.
Everyone is Hieronymus Bosch
Fight your own Hell, 
And don't disturb the Hell of others.

Света Бень & Галя Чикис - Не печалуйся // Sveta Ben & Galya Chikiss - Don't be sad

Maybe

Maybe if I cease to exist
That would be better at least
But just in case please note
I’m not the one who’s deciding here
Certainly not

Why are you hanging up here
Nailed, hammered or glued
My organism
That is so immaterial
Humble and nude?
Maybe the fact that you haven’t
Been kicked off the planet by now
Meaning you needed by someone
Somewhere somehow
Maybe trying to figure things out
Would be better than having a doubt
But let me explain it to you  
Everything here is unclear my dear
No one’s having a clue
Why are you possibly brought in
Why did you ever arrive
My organism
That is beat up and broken
But strangely alive
Maybe the fact that you haven’t
Been kicked off the planet by now
Meaning you needed by someone
Somewhere somehow

Света Бень & Галя Чикис - Может // Sveta Ben & Galya Chikiss - Maybe

Teddy the Bear

A golden fall 
Black leaves on asphalt 
If you didn’t hide 
It’s nobody’s fault

Teddy the Bear broke from prison again
We could see his scriptures
In every police station
All the cops turned grey
But not us, no way!
They saw him in a cafe
With a pie on a tray
In an industrial zone
Taking nap on a lawn
Wrapped in linoleum sheet
Or drinking from tap in a street

We knew he’s not too far
He couldn’t go too far
So we sneaked to a basement
To leave him milk and pastry
Our daddy’s coat
A book by Walter Scott
Some iodine drops
And a honeycombs
A needle with a surgical thread
And a phone that was almost dead
Last night I saw him in the neighbourhood
He didn’t look good
On a cop’s car hood
Face down with his belly open
One of his eyes half-dropping
He turned and he told me
look
The Good is coming but it’s slow like a slug
It can not go faster pal
Because it’s afraid to do something not well
But the evil can hurry as much as it wants
Don’t be scared of the evil
But to turn into one of its parts
And I didn’t know what to say
Then he laughed
And the cops came to drive him away
There’s a foliage and water in tracks
A blood, a dirt and a synthepone scraps
I was looking at him while I stood
Then I went to the basement
to leave him some food
A golden fall 
Black leaves on asphalt 
If you weren’t hiding
It is not your fault

Света Бень & Галя Чикис - Не виноват // Sveta Ben & Galya Chikiss - Not guilty

Tree bones are all over the garden 
Frozen branches   
Like stumps of you 
Look, while we’re not guarded   
And the tubes 
Are out of our throats 
We can escape from the wards 
The key is in the linen drawer  
Over. 
 
Go and pick up the tree bones, dear  
And feed our hungry stove  
The outside is scary  
The inside is clear 
And my blood is too thick  
To flow.
I need you to stay inward 
To be my connecting cord  
Together, it’s not that sloppy. 
Do you copy?  
Do you copy? 
Copy?

Света Бень & Галя Чикис - Приём! // Sveta Ben & Galya Chikiss - Priyom!

I turn off the instinct of self-preservation and believe that this is not happening to me.
The pain recedes, all the bullets have  passed
My shadow accepts them, it is elusive and irresponsible,
It has no nerves, it is not like me.

Thank you for the strongest anger inside me, it is precious and very honest.
It is the most real of all that I have.

There are many complexities in kindness - and rage is transparent
God draws light from the ultimate fury. 
You're open like a can by the knife.
You burn everything good inside of you
And you feel free.

Света Бень & Галя Чикис - Самое злое // Sveta Ben & Galya Chikiss - The most Evil

Swallows

A swallow would grow
Into a cross or an arrow
Into the dark of a barrel  
Into a fishing tackle
Or a core of an apple
 
A swallow can be:
A full stop or a comma,
A dot-and-dash
Or a semicolon.
An apostrophe of a lightning
Or someone’s handwriting.
A poetical row on a shore
Licked by the waves off.
 
A swallow washes the milky
Insides of the lowering sky,
It winds its way smooth and silky,
It abandons the nest to fly.
 
Its home is a terrace and roof,
Its daily routine – to wake up and move.
 
A swallow is hunting after
Mosquitos, flies, and the same.
We’re tracking it with a laughter
Taking it as the game. 
It goes in a downward spiral
Cutting the air by tail,
A swallow is not at least tired
Or maybe it doesn’t tell.
 
A swallow is gathering speed
Thrown as a shuriken.
A swallow will never defeat,
And you don’t give up if you can.
 
Just take every effort to fit.

Света Бень & Галя Чикис - Ласточки // Sveta Ben & Galya Chikiss - The swallows

Plattenbau - Sleep / Paralysis (Chikiss Remix)

Cингл Светы Бень и Гали Чикис «Не печалуйся"» // The new single by Sveta Ben and Galya Chikiss "Don't be sad" 

Video: https://youtu.be/F_53Ud0OajE

Премьера альбома "Приём!" 16.12.2022 // Album "Priyom" will be released 16.12.2022.

Света Бень: «В Средние века был такой жанр danse macabre (фр) – "танец смерти". Это одновременно и бегство от смерти, и пляска с ней в обнимку. Чувство, когда так страшно, что уже и не страшно, а даже как будто весело. Получилась песенка, в которой детская считалочка, а точнее дразнилка, соединяются с наивным духовным стихами-отсылками к творениям Григория Сковороды.

Не держись за прошлое, его уже нет и не будет, не печалься зря – рано или поздно ты исчезнешь и все завершится. Не упивайся своими страданиями и не придирайся к другим -- всем  одинаково страшно и у каждого свой Армагеддон внутри.»

Не печалуйся ничем 
Все вокруг не насовсем
Все что движется обрящет 
Деревянный ящик 

Перемелется в муку
Затеряется в стогу 
Станет прахом одним махом 
И ку-ку !  
Крокодил-дил-дил идёт 
Бегемот-мот-мот плывёт 
Все проходит 
Все проходит 
Все проходит 
Все пройдёт 
Изотрется в порошок 
Упакуется в мешок 
Белым снегом засыпаясь , 
Засыпай скорей, дружок 

Где твои мысли? 
На соплях повисли
Где твои заботы? 
Им бы вспомнить кто ты! 
Где твои Победы? 
Им скажи - покедова! 
Где все что было? 
Там где все что было 

Не печалуйся, не ной 
Каждый болен сам - собой 
Каждый трудится как может
Свой ведёт неравный бой 
Каждый хрупок и раним
Каждый- Босх Иероним 
Со своим сражайся адом 
И не лезь во ад к другим

...

Do not be sad about anything, everything will pass, it will end.
It will grind like flour, turn to dust.

A crocodile is walking, a hippopotamus is swimming,
Everything passes and passes and will pass finally.
Sleep and don't think about anything.

Where are your thoughts? They’re hung up on the snot.
Where are your worries? They don't remember who you are.
Where are your victories? Say goodbye to them.
Where was everything? There. Where everything was.

Don't whine, don't be sad.
It hurts everyone.
Everyone has their own unequal battle with themselves.
Everyone is Hieronymus Bosch
Fight your own Hell,
And don't disturb the Hell of others

Lyrics - Sveta Ben
Music - Galya Chikiss
Mixing - Galya Chikiss, Robin Hunt
Mastering – Robin Hunt
Artwork - Ira Zabela
Recorded at P.A.N.D.A.Platform,  
Berlin, 2022

Света Бень и Галя Чикис - Не печалуйся // Sveta Ben and Galya Chikiss - Don't be sad

“Танцевать вопреки отчаянию, сиять в полном мраке…”
“Dance in spite of despair, shine in total darkness…”

Video: youtu.be/yHbcNbsT-Fo

Music, lyrics, vocals - Sveta Ben
Music, arrangement, mixing - Galya Chikiss
Mastering - Robin Hunt

Lyrics in English:

There was such a beautiful mirror ball,
Such a beautiful mirror ball was spinning there,
Slippery floor, flimsy chair, sticky bar ...
But there was such a beautiful mirror ball…

Mirror ball

My story was so dark, long and boring
And to in short,
I feel - this is the end
The world is so dark and dangerous,
I'm out of sync with him,
The evacuation plan is clear, but not doable.

Mirror ball

There was such a beautiful mirror ball.
Gingerbread man, take a hit.
Glue up with sticky dough
Your broken paradise
But to be honest with you
You must die

But the ball spoke:
- Lie!
You will never die!
You are dancing -
You will never die!
Look in my eyes! Am I lying, am I lying ?!
You dance - you will never die
I'm spinning - and I will never die
I'm spinning just for you, only for you, only for you
Your mirror ball
only for you, only for you

Your mirror ball…

Света Бень & Галя Чикис - Зеркальный Шар // Sveta Ben & Galya Chikiss - Mirrorball

Lyrics, music, vocals - Sveta Ben
Music, arrangements, mixing - Galya Chikiss
Mixing, mastering - Robin Hunt
Artwork - Sasha Belsky

Пожалуй, биолюминисценция - умение живых организмов сиять - это один из лучших примеров, который дает нам природа. Чем сильнее  раздражение внешней среды, тем ярче сияние. Эту песню мы посвящаем  тем, кто от тяжелых испытаний или от беспрестанной помощи другим иногда не находит больше силы сиять. Ну, и тем, кто всегда не забывает искрится как сгусток самых ярких  блесток, преодолевая все раздражающие факторы внешней среды.
...
Perhaps, bioluminescence - the ability of living organisms to glow - is one of the best examples that nature provides us. The stronger the irritation from the external environment, the brighter the glow. This song is dedicated to those who, from either heavy trials or constant assistance to others, sometimes find it hard to find the strength to shine. Well, and to those who never forget to sparkle like a cluster of the brightest sparkles, overcoming all irritating factors in the external environment.

Сгусток блёсток

Sveta Ben & Galya Chikiss - Сгусток блёсток / Bunch of Sparkles

Dances In The Wrong Blubbery Wave (for FUSElab records)

cover of the song by Natalia Vetlitskaya and Dmitry Malikov

soul
my sun doesn't shine me longer,
my sun doesn't shine me longer,
songs will not come in spring,
copper pipes, tambourines and flutes is silent now.
you become like everyone else.
we do not divide light of distances with you any more.
i feel burning pain from breathing of ice moon.
my soul at the end of a day 
will sing me that love has gone.
you are more the moon than the sun now.
forget about me, forget about me.
i will never descend from the heaven
in white wreath and smile anymore.
and i will forget about you, you, you, you
our hearts will cry and say goodbye.
i will never hear screams of flocks flying from afar.
blizzard in the vast fields hid the sky from me.
my soul at the end of a day 
will sing me that love has gone.
you are more the moon than the sun now.
forget about me, forget about me.

Душа/ Dusha

An expressionist noir-jazz fantasy about a girl who doesn’t exist; a muse of the artist, sometimes disappearing into storm clouds and meteor showers, and sometimes suddenly appearing out of nowhere — elusive, weightless, yet tangible and highly desirable (from upcoming album "Between Time and Laziness" by Chikiss, out December, 6 via Bureau B, order: https://orcd.co/chikiss).


Music, vocals, synths - Galina Ozeran aka Chikiss
Drums - Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Lyrics - Boris Pokidko
Mixing - Robin Hunt
Artwork - Great Fruit

DKN (single, 2024)

For the September episode of their monthly Outsiders residency, Bureau B invited songstress, composer and producer Galina Ozeran AKA Chikiss to provide a mix. 

She’s about to unveil her brand new LP to released on Bureau B later this year. For her guest show she compiled one hour of her very personal music favorites.

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Minimalist lines, resembling more a mysterious counting rhyme than a poem. It is as if groping through a viscous, blurred landscape of inaction, procrastination, and fears towards a cherished goal. Everyone has their own. And what doesn’t work out means it simply doesn’t work out. But what is meant to happen always happens. 

From upcoming album 'Between Time and Laziness' (out December, 6, order: https://orcd.co/chikiss

Music, vocals, synths - Galina Ozeran 
Drums, bass guitar - Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Electric guitar - Obi Blanche
Poetry - Sergey Danilov
Mixing - Robin Hunt
Artwork, titres - Galina Ozeran 
Recorded at Atlas studio in Berlin and Mutual recordings in Athens

Video: https://youtu.be/EAKgOVQSluQ?si=0PBOHfu0gd6p-9xe
Bandcamp: https://chikissecrets.bandcamp.com/track/nevesta

Nevesta (single, 2024)

«4:45» is ​​the Russian-language part of the double bilingual single “4:45/"Four Forty Five” (from upcoming album "Between Time and Laziness" by Chikiss, out December, 6 via Bureau B)

Chikiss: "Strong, vivid love in a dream, and the subsequent awakening in limbo between the ghost of the real and the reality of the non-existent - this is too intense and destructive in every sense to pretend that nothing happened. I wanted to share my feelings."

Video: https://youtu.be/6U7i3cqheoY?si=OJxIBafMqR6pXYRN

Mysic, lyrics - Galina Ozeran (Chikiss)
Mixing - Robin Hunt 
Artwork - The Great Fruit


4:45 (single, 2024)

Intro

Evil Sky

Nevesta

Train Schedule

clip (ENG): https://youtu.be/6U7i3cqheoY?si=C1Lm2QEfmSFqCUff

"Inspired by the moment in REM sleep when the illusion feels most real, this electronic torch song embodies the loss of the (im)possible life at the moment you wake."

— Patrick Ryder

Music, vocals - Galina Ozeran
Mixing - Robin Hunt
Mastering - Detlef Funder
Artwork - The Great Fruit

Recorded at different times in the former bridal gown salon in St.Petersburg, Atlas studio in Berlin and Mutual Sound studio in Athens.

released December 6, 2024 via Bureau B
https://orcd.co/chikiss

4:45

Between Time and Lazyness

Into the Void

Don't Be Afraid

Forever

Sameheads C60 Tape Collection Series # 7
"Magical Soviet Soundtracks of the 60's & 70's"
Compiled by CHIKISS
https://soundcloud.com/chikissecrets

The Sameheads C60 Tape Collection Series is our in-house tape label offering up semi-regular mixtape releases from a selected bunch of our most eclectic, curious and / or pioneering collaborating artists.
They normally sell out pretty quick, but just in case please refer to:
https://www.discogs.com/label/891815-The-Sameheads-C60-Series

www.sameheads.com

Magical Soviet Soundtracks

Magical Soviet Soundtracks of the 60's & 70's Side A - Compiled by CHIKISS: Sameheads C60 Tape

Magical Soviet Soundtracks (Side B)

Magical Soviet Soundtracks of the 60's & 70's Side B - Compiled by CHIKISS: Sameheads C60 Tape

special for tribute to VIKTOR TZOI "Мы вышли из КИНО"
live at Red Light Radio Amsterdam

https://meduza.io/feature/2017/06/26/my-vyshli-iz-kino-vse-25-kaverov-na-viktora-tsoya-zdes

Chikiss - Камчатка (КИНО Cover, RLR/LIVE, 2017)

words - sergey danilov
sound - alexander ionov, anton gur'evsky
master - vlad parshin

february, 2012

01 chikiss - kino

1. Alexander Matochkin - Выпил рюмку, выпил две /I drank a glass, drank two
2. Shch9 - Shiny objects on your chest 
3. Интурист - Похождения компьютерного мастера /Inturist - Adventures of computer master
4. ЖЛОБ - Саша /Sasha
5. Творожное озеро - Южные волны /Curd lake - South waves
6. Blablarism - Golveoleth
7. Moх - ↔
8. Milky Toad - Youth gone wild
9. Мутафория Лили - Чертово колесо. Карусель авангард /Ferris wheel. Carousel Vanguard
10. Что то из колбасы
11. Панама - Святые /Panama - Saints
12. Povalishin Division - Красные симпатичные ботинки /Red cute shoes
13. Zhenya Kukoverov - Kaif 
14. Fake Trailers - Ночью /At night
15. Rosemary loves Blackberry - Kис Мяу /Kis Meow
16. Bat Bitch - Violet Sofa
17. Poexxxali - Чай /Tea
18. Хор Тропинка + 4 Позиции Бруно - Чудо-страна /Wonderland
19. Alexander Dubrovin - Under the Moon
20. Keta - Kamchatka
21. Inna Pivars & Histriones - Звездочка /Small star
22. D. Pantyushin & S. Lipsky - Telephone
23. Chikiss - Don’t be Afraid (Nocow Fluent mix)
24. Rumsissyboy - Birds in a mall
25. Сергей Иванов - Сердце /Heart
26. Crimson Corridor - Cold comfort
27. Lapti feat. Nocow - Sirenas
28. Chikissecrets - Девочка которой нет (Milky Toad mix)
29. Silver Boy - Neo-Kuban

Unobvious pearls of 10's (Mix for NTS radio)

"IT'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT"
based on the song of the band "НОЛЬ"

VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JxfjcRh7Dw

from upcoming album "Между временем и ленью"/ "Between time and laziness" 

lyrics - Fjodor Chistyakov
music - Galya Chikiss

☽

lyrics:

Сядьте в кресло, расслабьтесь,
Погрузитесь в полный покой.
Телевизор бесшумно
Работает сам собой.
Вы делаете вдох.
Выдох.
Будет все хорошо.
Вы делаете вдох.
Выдох.
Еще.

Небо ночное черным-черно,
Нет печали о прожитом дне.
И не надо смотреть в окно –
Отвернитесь лицом к стене.
Вы делаете вдох.
Выдох.
Будет все хорошо.
Вы делаете вдох.
Выдох.
Еще.

Мысли тревожные вас не гнетут,
Ваш дом – это ваша нора.
Будни суровые завтра ждут –
Все праздники были вчера.
Вы делаете вдох.
Выдох.
Будет все хорошо.
Вы делаете вдох.
Выдох.
Еще.

...

It's gonna be alright

Sit down, relax,
Immerse yourself in complete peace.
The TV runs silently on its own.
You take a breath, exhale.
It's gonna be alright.
You take a breath, exhale.
More.

The night sky is so dark,
there is no sadness about the past day.
And do not look out the window.
Turn your face to the wall.
You take a breath, exhale.
It's gonna be alright.
You take a breath, exhale.
More.

Disturbing thoughts do not oppress you,
Your home is your burrow.
Harsh everyday tomorrow awaits us.
All holidays were yesterday.
You take a breath, exhale.
It's gonna be alright.
You take a breath, exhale. More.

released June 18, 2020

Будет Все Хорошо (It's gonna be alright)

Arm Author cover

Hundreds of broken keys
And faces, the names of loved ones
Modern cars
For our lives
They accompany us en route
Tomorrow won’t be remembered
Ten minutes remain
I am arrested
There’s room for dreams:
A train timetable

*translated by David MacFyden

Расписание/ Train Schedule

★ Russian adaptation of Italo Disco Hit "Only Music Survives" (1985) by Dora Carofiglio and Alba Parietti. ★

Music and production - Andrei Antonets

Lyrics and vocals - Galina Ozeran

Drums - Yuri Usachev

Guitar - Ilya Shapovalov

Mastering - Evgeniy Ivanov

OID & Chikiss - Only Music Survives (русская версия)

Baby, bye (2020 version)

May, 14,  "BETWEEN TIME AND LAZINESS" LIVE Berlin premier feat. Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Die Wilde Jagd, Saeko Killy, Sveta Ben, Mustelide @ Ballhaus Prinzenallee, 33

LISTEN: https://orcd.co/chikiss
Tickets and more: https://linktr.ee/chikissecrets

Galina Ozeran, known as Chikiss, is a Belarus-born, Berlin-based composer, producer, and songstress. 
Over the past two decades, she has followed her own desire line through post-punk, minimal wave, experimental electronica, and live improvisation to build an impressive catalog of emotive and innovative music.

Her work includes multiple full-length albums—most recently Between Time and Laziness (Bureau B, Dec 6, 2024)—alongside EPs, mixtapes, and collaborations with artists like Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Ensemble Economique (duo Video Salon), Dorit Chrysler, Eva Geist, Thomas Azier, Die Wilde Jagd, Bad Hammer, Mustelide (duo Machineries) and many more. With an intuitive approach, Chikiss channels personal experience and the world’s turbulence into sound.

Her music can be found in the catalogues of the labels Not Not Fun, Bureau B, Crash Symbols, Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound, Space Ritual, Fuselab, Sameheads, Osàre Editions, Silhouette Tapes.

Gigs:

15.5.25 - Ballhaus Prinzenalle, Album release show, feat. Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Die Wilde Jagd and friends, Berlin
12.4.25 - Yerevan, Armenia
11.4.25 - Tbilisi, Georgia
10.4.25 - Batumi, Georgia
5.4.25 - Belgrade, Serbia
28.3.25 - premier "Echoes of Dissent" (ft. Daria Goremykina), HAU1, Berlin
22.11.24 - PANDA Women festival, Berlin
26.7.24 - Berlin, Loophole soliparty
27.6.24 - Fusion Festival, DE
1.3.24 - Hamburg, Kino Forum, Metropolis Kino w/Sveta Ben
11.2.24 - Berlin, Kantine am Berghain w/Sveta Ben
4.2.24 - Tallinn, Kultuurivabrik w/Sveta Ben
2.2.24 - Riga, Laska V21 w/Sveta Ben
6.1.24 - Leipzig, Schauspiel Leipzig, Sleep In session, solo
10.11.23 - Panda Platform, Berlin w/Sveta Ben
1.9.23 - Pop-Kultur Festival, Berlin (God is God)
12.8.23 - Malmö Festival, Sweden (God is God)
24.7.23 - Nation of Gondwana Festival solo LIVE
30.6.23 - Fusion Festival (w/Sveta Ben)
28.6.23 - Fusion Festival (God is God)
2.6.23 - Meadow in the Mountains Festival, Bulgaria (God is God)
12 - 14.5.23 - Georgia w/Sveta Ben
7.5.23 - Budva, Montenegro w/Sveta Ben
4.5.23 - Belgrade, Dym w/Sveta Ben
30.4.23 - Tallin, Sveta baar w/Sveta Ben
29.4.23 - Riga, Laska V21 w/Sveta Ben
28.4.23 - Vilnius w/Sveta Ben
20.3.23 - Prague, Underdog w/Sveta Ben
6 - 16.4. 23 - Polish tour w/Sveta Ben
25.3 - München, Gorod w/Sveta Ben
21.1.23 - Release show, Haus der Statistik, Berlin w/Sveta Ben
15.12.22 - Berlin, Bureau B label night, Arkaoda (God is God)
8.10.22 - Berlin, Loophole, Tag der Clubkultur
3.9.22 - Berlin, Urban Spree, w/Plattenbau and Data Animal
15.7.22 - Cosmic Gathering, DE
30.6/2.7 - Fusion Festival
24.7.22 - Cologne, Neu Kaputt
26.4.22 - HAU Theatre, Berlin, w/Sveta Ben
26.2.22 - Arkaoda, Berlin
13.2.22 - Fanfulla, Rome, Italy
23.9.21 - Bildet Hischen! festival, HAU Theatre, Berlin
27.8.21 - STAUB Fest, H13, Berlin
21.8.20 - POP-KULTUR, Berlin
2.3.20 - w/Molchat Doma, Cologne, Germany
22.2.20 - LIVE soundtrack to "Unknown" by Todd Browning (1927), PANDA theatre, Berlin
8.2.20 - STAUB, ://about blank, Berlin
19.11.19 - WORM Rotterdam
4-5.10.19 - Synthposium, Yerevan, Armenia
27.9.19 - Sameheads, Berlin
13.9.19 - Yeltsin Center, Ekaterinburg
12.9.19 - NOOR Bar, Moscow
6.9.19 - CAMP COSMIC, Chemnitz 
27.7.19 - Present Perfect Festival/Boiler Room, St.Petersburg
17.5.19 - Spettro, Brescia, Italy
14.4.19 - Q3AMBIENTFEST, Potsdam
30.3.19 - Tallinn Music Week
25.3.19 - 8mm, Berlin
8.3.19 - Pluton, Moscow
3.2.19 - Arkaoda, Berlin
29.1.18 - Barcelona, Màgia Roja
8.12.18 - 5 anniversary of KlammKlang records, Richter space, Moscow
23.11.18 - GOD IS GOD, debut release show, Arkaoda, Berlin
21.9.18 - Reeperbahn festival, Hamburg
15.9.18 - Blind Signal, Berlin
4.8.18 - GARBICZ FESTIVAL(PL)
30.6.18 - FUSION FESTIVAL (DE)
31.5.18 - Monika Werkstatt, Schokoladen, Berlin
25.5.18 - Marie-Antoinette w/Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Berlin
18.4.18 - Mellochfest, Bassy w/Tess Parks + Underground Youth, Berlin
6.4.18 - Internet Explorer, M&M Mixtape Release, Berlin
31.3.18 - Museum of Moscow
31.1.18 - HKW, TRANSMEDIALE fest, Berlin
11.11.17 - Strelka, Moscow
26.9.17 - Internet Explorer, Weeeirdos, Berlin
29.7.17 - PRESENT PERFECT FESTIVAL, SPb
21-23.7.17 - Summit of "Braillė Satellitė", Lithuania
31.5.17 - Marie-Antoinette w/Space Lady, Berlin
22.4.17 - Guethe-Institut Amsterdam w/Group A
22.4.17 - Red Light Radio, Amsterdam
20.3.17 - WORM, Rotterdam, w/Mary Orcher, An Pierle
23.7.16 - CAMP COSMIC FESTIVAL(DE)
2.7.16 - FUSION FESTIVAL(DE)
26.8.15 - POP-KULTUR, Berghain, Berlin

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