Stockfisch-Records

KATJA WERKER

Three Stockfisch releases featuring a German singer-songwriter:

In April 2011, Katja Werker had visited the Northeim studio for the first time. This charismatic yet equally shy musician is anything but a cliché. Katja’s songs are genuine, autobiographical and contain a good dose of melancholy.

The music on her debut album has been arranged in a subtle style that perfectly complements Katja’s delicate, soulful voice, featuring Ian Melrose on the whistle and guitars. This is complemented by the musical textures of the cello, dobro and electric piano – with no drums or electric guitars.

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Katja Werker

- to date she has published 15 albums and an autobiographical book

"An seidenen Fäden"

Katja's third album with Stockfisch Records: "On Silk Threads"

Songs that wrap you in a warm embrace: on her new album, Katja Werker sings eleven songs about the search for happiness and inner balance. The songs are about picking yourself up after difficult times and learning to value yourself. The album is filled with positive messages, human emotions and uplifting thoughts.

Katja Werker’s new songs are poetic and so light that they seem to float – yet at the same time they never lose touch with the realities of life. This exceptional singer succeeds in enhancing her lyrical words with powerful melodies.

Super-Audio-CD Hybrid: SACD Stereo + CD-Layer
SFR 357.4115.2  •  total time 47:00

Also available as rECOrd LP .

SFR 357.8115.1  •  total time 47:00  •  LP

The more you listen to this album, the more it begins to shine. And: the songs are comforting – like a warm embrace.

The EcoRecord (rECOrd LP) heralds a new era in sustainable LP production. The innovative special-purpose PET polymer used – selected for its clarity, mechanical strength and mouldability – possesses a range of properties that are essential for high-quality audio reproduction. The material has been specifically tailored to Sonopress’s advanced high-pressure injection moulding systems, which were originally developed for the manufacture of optical media.

Musicians

Performing on "An seidenen Fäden":

Katja Werker - vocal, guitar / Gert Neumann - guitars / Ian Melrose - guitars / Thomas Hirschberg  -  hammond B3


"Contact Myself 2.0"

"20 years later: My album “Contact Myself” was released in the year 2000 and it was/is in many aspects a musical milestone for me.

It opened many doors and paved my way as a singer, guitarist and songwriter up to this day. Regardless of the ups and downs I faced since the release of this album, these songs were always there for me like the strong and caring arms of a father.

During an intensive phase of radical changes and new beginnings in 2018/2019/2020 a wish grow in me to record the songs from “Contact Myself” anew for the 20th anniversary of this album. It would be live and minimalistic – exactly like how I wrote them in my kitchen in Hamburg back then. Stockfisch was the only label I considered for this project."

Super-Audio-CD Hybrid: SACD Stereo + CD-Layer
SFR 357.4102.2  •  total time 43:16

Also available as 180g-Vinyl LP  .

SFR 357.8102.1  •  total time 43:16  •  LP

"Günter Pauler and his team made it possible for me to realize this quite challenging project not only at highest audio-technical brilliance, but also in an environment of human warmth and calmness. And challenging it was, because, though I have released many albums over the years, a real live recording was a completely new experience for me. It was a recording session full of encounters, during which I had the opportunity to experience a hardly familiar feeling of arrival and acceptance, and a chance to rediscover everybody involved in the project, including my own self. And that’s what life and songwriting are about. Encounters." Katja Werker, July 2020

MUSIKER

Musicians on "Contact Myself 2.0":

Katja Werker - vocal, guitar / Gert Neumann - guitars / Hans-Jörg Maucksch - fretlessbass


"Mitten im Sturm"

Mit ihrem neuen Album "Mitten im Sturm" erscheint Singer-Songwriter, Komponistin und Autorin Katja Maria Werker nun auf der Stockfisch-Bühne.

Auf der Bühne ist die Frau mit dem sensiblen Gesicht immer; auf der Bühne ihrer Träume und auf der Bühne ihres Lebens, das reich an Stürmen eines zeigt wie in dem Stück „Aus dem Beton“: Der Mond ist bewohnt. Auf hartes Landen kann weiches Ankommen folgen – in diesem Falle bei Kunst.

"Mitten im Sturm" ist eine facettenreiche Platte – mal heftiger, mal ruhiger: Eigenkompositionen von Katja M. Werker: frische, energiegeladene Popsongs ("Crossfire"), Folk in englischer und deutscher Sprache, ein Peter Gabriel-Klassiker der 70er Jahre ("Here Comes the Flood") und eine starke Interpretation des Hit-Popsongs "Über sieben Brücken musst du gehn" oder Mikis Theodorakis' "Zusammenleben". Die Arrangements stammen von der Künstlerin selbst.

SFR 357.6074.2  •  total time 48:18  •  CD

Diese Produktion ist auch als 180g-Vinyl LP erhältlich.

SFR 357.8074.1  •  total time 48:18  •  LP

Jedes Stück ist einzigartig, aber alle sind höchst authentisch, weil sie im wörtlichen Sinne persönlich sind: Eine Menschlichkeit, eine Biografie, eine Reifung, die durch die Musik hindurchtönt ("Tief im Innern"). Mitten im Sturm ist der Ort, wo Schmerz und Heilung Nachbarn sind, wo „Leb oder Stirb“ der Imperativ und Hoffnung die zarte Pflanze ist, die noch aus Beton wächst. - Musik, eine Stimme, die eine Spur im Herzen hinterlässt, lange nachdem der letzte Takt verklungen ist. Musik wie ihre Schöpferin: Besonders und von bleibendem Eindruck.

musicians

performing on this album "Mitten im Sturm" :

Katja Maria Werker - vocal, guitar / Ian Melrose - guitars, whistle / Lutz Möller - Fender Rhodes, Mellotron / Alessandro Gulino - bass / Hans-Jörg Maucksch - bass / Martin Großkurth - hammond b3 / Peter Funk - dobro / Lucile Chaubard - violoncello / Beo Brockhausen - Hang, udu, saxophone, hulusi / Lea Morris - backing vocals