a distant breakthrough

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)

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)

"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

Evil Sky

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

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