Copenhagen is reportedly one of the happiest places in the world, but CALLmeKAT (Katrine Ottosen) knows a thing or two about heartache. Armed with an intoxicating voice and upwards of five keyboards, this Danish native makes the somber something to sink into.
After releasing the single “My Sea,” and an EP, I’m in a Polaroid, Where are You?, CALLmeKAT made her full-length debut with 2008′s Fall Down. Critics have since called her music “lovely, delicate” with “serious synth talent and [a] voice to melt your ears.”
She’s toured with Blonde Redhead, Bat for Lashes, Okkervil River and others, including stops at SXSW and NXNE, and is widely known in Denmark, though she now calls NYC home.
We sat down with CALLmeKAT, who told us about her recording process (both at home and in leaky barns), her favorite keyboards (KORG gets mad props) and why Copenhagen has that happy reputation, anyway.
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