Today we have another story of a brilliant and rising female career. Because the positioning of Sibel Jacqueline Koçer aka JakoJako on the international scene has taken place in the last seven years, and from scratch musically speaking.

It was during this time that she left Turkey to settle in Berlin, where she worked as a nurse while studying nursing management. At that time, her musical training was zero, and she started with a little bit of guitar, a little bit of piano, followed by some music production until one day, after a first failed attempt, she went to work at Schneidersladen, the mecca of modular synthesizers.

From that point on, everything went into high gear. Within four years, he goes on to release his first EP on Leisure System and to play at Berghain… if this isn’t a meteoric rise, we don’t know what to call it.

His first EP’s are dance-oriented, full of quality Techno and textures, not your typical rough and tumble, high BPM work. Although it is also true that in the second of them, Lux EP, there are already adventures in Ambient mode of singular beauty.

This is the path he follows on his first full-length release, a cassette and digital format recorded together with Berghain resident Mareena, beatless and beautiful.

Now on his first solo full-length, he follows this path and opts for a beautiful intergalactic journey called Metamorphose, and proof of his upward trajectory is the label where he releases it, Bigamo Musik, owned by Frank Wiedemann (who, as everyone knows, is half of Âme and also owner of another label called Innervisions).

 

 

Regardless of whether you immediately associate the term metamorphosis with any kind of evolutionary adjustment, with the complex transformation of music or whether you simply think of the distinctive mark that the last two years have made on each and every one of us, it’s easy to agree that Metamorphose is the perfect title for JakoJako’s debut album for Bigamo.

JakoJako has made perfect use of the obligatory extra studio time regulated by the pandemic, developing and developing and fleshing out a sound that he instantly grabbed attention with, right out of the gate in 2019 with his first EP on Leisure System.

Metamorphose is one of those albums that can easily silence a bustling room in an instant, regardless of whether you’re a connoisseur of this kind of music or not. It’s a compelling and highly absorbing collection of tracks, a surprisingly immersive experience designed for late night listening (and beyond) that’s hard not to get lost in. Even so, the nine tracks feel almost like a paradox: they are fundamentally propulsive, yet seem to slow down time and space, generate tension yet offer a sense of security. and space, generate tension yet offer a strangely soothing effect, feel high-level and involve endless intellectual stimulation, yet feel deeply. intellectual, yet feel deeply and simply want to provide simple truths about ourselves.

The most disturbing aspect, however, might even be the fact that it sounds totally complete, although the musical journey of this Berlin-based musician, producer and connoisseur has only just begun.

 

Metamorphose release date, April 1st on Bigamo Musik, pre order available here

 

 

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