Katja Werker: Contact Myself 2.0

Stockfisch Records

"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."

"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