[Cover photo credit to Katja Ruge]

Berlin-based modular synthesist JakoJako (aka Sibel Koçer) has shared a new track from her forthcoming album, Tết 41, out on limited edition vinyl, and digitally, on April 25, 2025.

The new track “Kumquat” expands on themes explored across the album. The album was recorded in Vietnam during the Tết Lunar New Year celebrations where kumquats are a key symbol of Tết, “bringing prosperity and abundance.”

Tết 41 reflects on “notions of rebirth and the pursuit of a sonic core.” The album was created with a minimal hardware set up and for simplicity.

Koçer explains:

I wanted to collect the atmospheres of Vietnam, and strip it back to my language – electronic music. I don’t have huge ties to the traditions of my Vietnamese family, so being able to experience them with my mother and then bring the Lunar Celebration – the colorful flowers, food and customs – back to Europe through music has helped me realize how important this side of my heritage is.

The new track follows “Lì xì”, named after the small red envelopes gifted at Lunar New Year. The album opens and closes with field recordings taken during the Lunar New Year celebrations.

JakoJako is a Producer, live artist and DJ who has held a residency at Berghain while touring some of the world’s electronic music institutions. Tết 41 is “driven by a desire to document the potentials of analogue and modular synthesis, and to consider new contexts within which these could exist.”