scratches, by Rowan Katz

scratches

by Rowan Katz

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Gabrielemenopee Rowan Katz writes songs that should resonate with all of us who feel we're sitting at the world's deathbed. Some of their songs hit like a morphine drip, others like a storm of raging tears in the parking lot, or the soft squeeze of a dying hand in your own.

scratches reveals a voice both beautiful and powerful in its vulneravility, exposed as it is over the bare bones of Rowan's songs-to-be. Buy this record and support their vision to record this music in a professional setting! Favorite track: the gutter.

lillianavillines For years Rowan’s music has been a force unto itself, this is nothing new. And yet, with every release I am thrown into a vivid world of the unexpected and the unknown that make me howl as I’m listening.

Each time I hear a Rowan Katz song for the first time, I’m hearing an unearthing of questions that are being dug up as if from under untouched soil. These stories and observations are treasures that feel both ancient and new.

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1.	the gutter 03:52	info	buy track
2.	vultures 03:18		buy track
3.	my mother's body 04:38		buy track
4.	let me be found 04:07		buy track
5.	her name 04:53		buy track
6.	snakes 01:38		buy track
7.	monday best 02:50		buy track
8.	flowers (left at the altar) 03:33		buy track
9.	pompeii 04:58		buy track
10.	borders 03:50		buy track
11.	san francisco 05:49		buy track
12.	a new world 04:10		buy track

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What I wanted was to be able to record - studio set up, mixed, mastered, produced, the whole shebang - most of these songs over the past 4 years or so. But life got in the way, and so did money, and fear, and exhaustion, and all the rest. I've been writing music since I was 12, so about 13 years now, and there are hundreds of songs I never took the time to release because I felt I couldn't find a way to give the best, most polished version of them to the world.

But if I died tomorrow, I would want to know I had let people hear these. They are so raw, so unpolished, recorded in a variety of settings on an iPhone over the past 3 years. And I don't care. These are me, my everything, my heart, my soul, my legacy. Have them, use them, take them, they are yours too. They are for us. I hope you enjoy these as much as I have enjoyed making them and playing them to stay alive and know myself and better explore the world. Thank you so much to everyone who listens to my music and supports me in my highest good as a creative and a human being, I love you beyond words.

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released January 7, 2022

Written, recorded, and performed by Rowan Katz.

Special thanks to Bella Hangnail, the GOAT, for mixing and mastering The Gutter.

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Rowan Katz Los Angeles, California

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