It was in the snowy, icy winter of 2010 when Katrine Ottosen, the creative force behind the artist
name, went to the Catskill Mountains north of New York City. Here just outside the town of
Woodstock she teamed up with notable local-based musicians Joe Magistro (Prophet Omega) and Sara
Lee (Gang Of Four, B52’s). They filled a car with old keyboards and amps and drove off to Applehead
Studios. A beautiful wooden barn-turned-studio surrounded by grand nature and packed with precious
recording gear, making it the perfect setting for capturing the songs for the anticipated, next album.
Ein Setting perfect to record a „real“ Album, live , intuitive, organic, direct, „Oldfashioned“ in the best
sense of the word. “I felt when embarking on recording this album that in this absorbing, crazy digital
age, sometimes we need to taking the music back where it lives in the room first instead of
constructing inside a plastic box” , Kat says.
And you can hear that this is what gives „Wtrtb“ a total own musical Identity, one is touched by this
voice and absorbed by those melodies that get you right away. From the almost translucend opener
“Somewhere”, over the hauting chords of the titlesong, let alone the the intense grabbing “Glass
Walls”. “The Haze” airy and full of light changes into the pacey groovy retro chords with “Heat Full of
Soul”, the dramatic deep yet wonderful melancholic never pathetic “Broken House” / ”Going Home”
and is rounded up by the norsk organic feel of „Dead of Winter“ or „Black Ink.
There´scertainly no easy way out of „When The River Turns Black“ ….
Print:
„The Skandinavian melancholy flows like a newly sprung spring stream through the woods, all while
it resembles a French black and white movie from the 1960’s. The material is organic, highly
aesthetic and somewhat universal.“(Soundvenue)
„Small is beautiful. That is the most fitting description for the music of Katrine Ottosen, alias
CALLmeKAT. Cosy, cuddly, slightly melancholic music (…) And then on top of it her soft, alluring
voice, as if purring in a corner. To get suddenly loud every once in a while. Think Fiona Apple meets
CocoRosie.“ (Eurosonic)
„I wish we had pop artists like her in the U.S (…).“ (United Groove, KJazz)
„Definitely among the debut albums of the year!“ (Belingske Tidende)
Spring Tour:
Tour:
March 23rd ESBJERG, SYDDANSK MUSIKKONSERVATORIUM (DK)
March 29th BREMEN, MS TREUE (DE)
March 30th BERLIN, HBC (DE)
March 31th OFFENBACH, HAFEN2 (DE)
April 1st THUN, CAFÉ BAR MOKKA (CH)
April 2nd ZÜRICH, MASCOTTE (CH)
April 3rd WINTERTHUR, ALBANI (CH)
April 4th ZUG, GALVANIK (CH)
April 5th SAARBRÜCKEN, SPARTE 4 (DE)
April 6th tba
April 7th PARIS, LA FLÈCHE D’OR (FR)
April 11th STRASBOURG, ARTEFACT FESTIVAL (FR)
April 12th AMSTERDAM, PARADISO (NL)
April 13th BRUGGE, CACTUS CLUB (BE)
April 14th LILLE, LA PENICHE (FR)
April 15th AACHEN, MUSIKBUNKER (DE)
April 16th HAMBURG, THALIA THEATER (DE)
April 19th AARHUS, RADAR (DK)
April 20th RANDERS, VON HATTEN (DK)
April 21st AALBORG, STUDENTERHUSET (DK)
April 22nd ODENSE, KULTURMASKINEN (DK)
April 27th COPENHAGEN, BETA (DK)
April 28th LYNGBY, TEMPLET (DK)