Finally we are happy to announce that our debut album “Encounters” is now ready for you to hear and purchase.
We would like to thank our families and friends, who supported us in this enduring process. In particular, we would like to express our profound gratitude to Erkan Oğur for contributing to the album’s opening song with his fretless guitars, Enrico Wolf for recording, mixing and producing the album, to Ediz İre, for recording and engineering the drums, Dragana & Aleksandar Veselić, for designing the album artwork, Fluttery Records for promoting us and Thomas Rahr & Dirty Shoot Crew for shooting our pictures and making us look pretty, although we are not 😉.
So, enjoy Encounters, listen to the whole album on iTunes, Spotify, Bandcamp and Google Play, visit and follow us on our social media accounts.
Thanks,
Katre
Katre’s debut album Encounters focuses on the concept of existence. By applying the ebow on electric and fretless guitars, Katre sustains the sound, and in doing so they combine the techniques of the west and the eastern culture, in which they grew up. Inspired by the stages that span conception and birth, to growth and self-awareness, the album explores these ideas through the two chapters, Existing and Existence. The title of the album invokes Ercan Kesal’s expression “the unrelated details give our lives a meaning” and the songs an extension of Erkan Oğur’s statement – who also honored Katre by playing as a guest musician in the album’s opening track – “I cannot compose humoresques. Regardless of what I carry out, the result is only about the melancholy of being. We cannot cheer you up, but only help you be.”
All songs in Encounters have been written by Hasan Koç. Guitars have been recorded in 24/7 Studios, Rostock, Germany. Drums have been recorded in Ozan Demir Studios, İstanbul, Turkey. Studio DOT from Bosnia-Herzegovina made the beautiful artwork and Enrico Wolf mastered the album. Finally, Erkan Oğur contributed to Track 1. (Existence I). Underwater World with his fretless guitars and e-bow.
