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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. An artist constantly wanting to push her own creative boundaries, Seja has also lent her keyboarding and singing skills to touring buddies such as SPOD, David McCormack (Custard) and Ben Salter. In 2010 Seja created a batch of solo pieces under her own name for her debut album We Have Secrets But Nobody Cares (Rice is Nice). 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 with her own band, playing support slots for Warpaint, Goldfrapp and Sarah Blasko, Seja wrote and recorded a second volume of sweetly synthesised soundscapes entitled All Our Wires (Rice is Nice). The album sees the likes of Robert Forster of Australian legends the Go-Betweens, Cut Copy’s Tim Hoey and Regurgitator’s Ben Ely contributing vocals, guitars and bass, along with some arrangement from Wally De Backer (Gotye). 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. In 2013, Seja was the recipient of the Grant McLennan Memorial Fellowship. Seja spent a few years sewing tiny replicas of instruments out of felt and starting up her in-demand music podcast HearSej. Seja’s much anticipated third album Here is One I Know You Know is both a leap in production and again an ode to analogue. 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. The album welcomes a few close friends playing real acoustic instruments, including Jen Boyce (Ball Park Music) on bass, Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint) on percussion, Fred Armisen (SNL, Portlandia) on octobans, Georgia Mooney (All Our Exes Live in Texas) on backing vocals, George Browning (Velociraptor) on drums and percussion, Nicole Perry on congas, Chris Farrer (the Quickening) on guitar solos, Conrad Greenleaf (Richard in Your Mind) on bass and Danny Widdicombe (the Wilson Pickers) on pedal steel. Hotmagnets was production assistant and noise merchant.