"I don't care about being up to date. I want things to have meaning. I search for and am intrigued by stories, music and messages that can last longer than a summer." sighs Katrin Hahner a.k.a. MISS KENICHI, with just the hint of a smile. "That's why this needes to sound ancient, like a memory."

Hahner's music is, quite simply, timeless; it lingers in the air like smoke over a battlefield, ominous and yet mysteriously beautiful, its origins nebulous, its presence felt and yet intangible. On first listen it seems so delicate as to be barely there. But, given a little time, it sounds like it's been with you all your life, and the lives of many before you.

Though her first two, low key albums were more than well received, "The Trail" is a huge leap forward, the work of a mature and confident performer, its songwriting subtle and captivating, its arrangements imaginative and complex.

Miss Kenichi, based in Berlin, felt the need to expand her horizons, having focused much of her writing around the guitar. "I just got bored," she concedes. "I did not want to repeat what I had done before. I experimented with the way I play, and how I could take weight off the guitar and move towards other instruments, opening up my playing for bigger arrangements. I wanted to give it more power without losing the space and the fragility."

Miss Kenichi's songs outgrow their origins, thriving and blossoming as they develop. Miss Kenichi creates music that is boundlessly immersive, full of wisdom, grace and wonder.