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MUSIC AS MEDICINE FOR THE SOUL "Kate and our producer Oliver Statz are already waiting for us at Cala Pada”, says Volker Schmitz. On the drive over, the guitarist from the Lost Mountain Orchestra explains, “I recorded the ‘summer breeze’ album with Kate and Oliver. It contains all the love songs that Kate and I have performed together over the last three years at our live gigs, in restaurants such as Casa Colonial and Brisa de la Mar in Cala Pada. We have produced them in a jazzy, lounge music style, which means that the CD version of the songs is perfect as background music for a romantic dinner, but the songs can also stand alone and be used as a concert repertoire. The album contains songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and the present. It even contains a real oldie: the song ‘Scarborough Fair’ from the 17th century.” When we get to Cala Pada, Kate is sipping a glass of red wine. She has no showbiz pretentions – quite the opposite – Kate’s laugh and her pleasant British – sorry – Welsh sense of humour give the impression that you are talking to someone that you have known for years. Kate was born in Wales to a Scottish father and a Welsh mother of Italian extraction, and started performing with a dance-theatre group at the age of seven. Shortly after that, she started singing. When asked whether the roots of her homeland are evident in her music, Kate answers that the Welsh have always had a particular talent for writing mystical songs and poems. They are also well known for