Kattoo -Hang On To A Dream
Label Hymen records
Cat: Hymen 754
Release October 2006
http://www.hymen-records.com
After releasing “Megrim” last year on hymen records I used a well-meant nickname for Volker alias Kattoo: “Ennio Morricone of electronic music” What sounds like a joke is my dead earnest. Kattoo’s music have special meaning to me, it’s too easy to call Volker Kahl’s music just head-movie music. Volker Kahl alias Kattoo creates “Soul” music. If you think about “soul” music you may implicate this just to beautiful pictures and wonderful moments. But Kattoo’s “Soul” music is partial dark and abysmal. “Hang on to a dream” is different to “Megrim”; it combines dark and light moments in one second. It’s more a colourful journey through grey soundscapes. I think that’s one of Volker’s talents, if you ask him to create a soundtrack about a grey and rainy day he will be the one who will describe it in it’s brightest colours. “Hang on to a dream “ isn’t a catchy album and at the same time it is a memorable album, multilayer soundscapes which expands in the listeners brain. Kattoo never repeats himself, that’s for sure; maybe with these sixteen tracks Kattoo allows us a short insight to his personality.
Absolute awesome album.