Berlin based Kat Koan & The Lost Souls are pleased to announce a brand new release with the arrival of ‘Lost Souls’, taken from the forthcoming debut album ‘Coccon’ due later this year to be released on Vinyl and Bandcamp only.
‘Lost Souls’ sees Kat Koan and her new band ‘The Lost Souls’, strike a powerful message in a dizzy explosion of modern rock and roll, with nods to 90s Riot Grrrl sensibilities, accompanied by a gritty live performance music video shot in the basement of an old Stasi building turned recording studio in Berlin.
Kat says: “LOST SOULS is essentially a song about the urge to grab life by the horns. There are always a million reasons why it’s easier to go with the flow, accept the status quo, keep your mouth shut and stop fighting for dreams. During the lockdowns I realised that I had spent a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, looking for excuses for procrastination and waiting for miracles to happen – until one day I snapped out of it and stopped waiting for luck to fall into my lap. We are our own lucky stars. Life is more fun when we live it instead of merely existing and drifting with the tide. I’m excited about this song – and the other songs on the album – as we stuck to the initial pact we made, to not follow trends or try to please, but to keep it 100% real and raw, and non-air-brushed so to speak, moving away from over-produced polished sounds and injecting lots of emotion, personality, attitude and grit.”
Deciding to buck the trend by releasing on Vinyl and Bandcamp only, Kat Koan goes back to basics and aims to forge a personal relationship between the listener and the band.
“Music is precious. Making music encapsulates many strong emotions, heart, soul and craft; the process is all encompassing. Of course, it’s a joy and a real pleasure to make music and I don’t look at making our own album as a ‘job’ that I should get paid for but there is a value to it. Holding the test pressing of our album COCOON in my hands made me realise how right it feels to listen to our songs on vinyl. Taking it out of the sleeve, wiping it, laying it on the record player and the anticipation as the needle crackles before the first song- it gives me goosebumps. That day when we listened to the test pressing we knew that this is how we want people to listen to our songs. Digital streaming platforms have their purpose and are not evil per se but the devaluation of mu-sic, and the way music is being ‘consumed’ as a result of it doesn’t make us feel good about what we do. We might be shooting ourselves in the foot for not releasing it on digital streaming platforms but that’s ok. The people who will be buying our record will mean a lot to us and we’ll be sure to stay in touch and enjoy a special bond.”
Lost Souls / 7th April
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Bio:
Kat Koan is a Berlin based artist with a passion for expressing intense emotions through music and visuals. At the age of 19 she left her hometown Riesa in East Germany and moved to London, where she studied Media Arts and Management. After graduating from Surrey University she worked as a News Reporter/writer for Bloomberg News and later moved on to producing various children’s TV series, commercials, music videos and Short Films, organised Film screenings as well as Art Exhibitions and trained as a voice over artist in London.
During her time as a commercials producer she developed a passion for combining words and visuals with music. She began to write poems and short stories and made field recordings to create soundscapes for these stories, in order to bring them to life and add more depth and dimension. This later led to an interest in song writing. In 2017 Kat started to write lyrics for other artists and from 2018 she decided to take up singing.
The focus on musical and visual storytelling didn’t go unnoticed. When she finished the production of her debut album LUSTPRINZIP with Alex Lavery in London, David Lynch’s sound supervisor Dean Hurley heard something in her electro clash songs that intrigued him and offered to mix the album. Some of the songs were subsequently placed on adverts for clients like Glass Magazine and Bulgari, and were met with positive press and live audience reactions. This gave her the confidence and drive to keep going and improve her songwriting skills.
In 2020 she started to collaborate with Belgian producer & musician Raymond Rose, for her new album COCOON, which explores an entirely different musical genre, as well as a more grown up approach to storytelling. The album is now complete and ready to be released on vinyl in 2022.