Crys Cole & Oren Ambarchi - Hotel Record [2LP]

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: BT029  
Barcode: 880319855139
Release Date: 19 Jan 2024
Genre: Electronic/Ambient/Electro-Acoustic

Repress: 09 Feb 2024

2024 REPRESS. 

‘Quite easily one of the most quietly seductive records you’ll hear from the abstract, ambient, electro-acoustic sphere this year’ BOOMKAT.

Hotel Record is the second release from the duo/couple of crys cole and Oren Ambarchi, following on from Sonja Henies Vei 31 (Planam, 2014). Where their debut recording presented a disquieting portrait of the erotic dimension of romantic intimacy, the follow-up continues to explore the pair’s simultaneously musical and romantic relationship in a more subtle fashion, presenting four long-form pieces that touch on the variety of forms the life of this couple takes: as a musical duo, as a pair of travelers to exotic locations, as opponents in a game of cards…

Each of the double LP’s four sides presents a distinct sound-world, yet each manages to attain the same suspended, half-sleeping feeling, outlining a space where improbable combinations of the electronic and the acoustic, of extreme closeness and amorphous distance, occur with the gentle insistence of a dream.

Carving out an intimate and human sonic space across a diverse array of compositional approaches, sound sources, fidelities and textures, Hotel Record is the latest dispatch from the continuing explorations of a unique duo. Ambarchi and cole reimagine electro-acoustic music, not simply as ‘abstract’ sound, but as a diary, a love poem, a dream.

Deluxe gatefold sleeve with photography by Crys Cole and LP design via Stephen O’Malley Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin February 2017

Tracklisting
A Crys Cole; Oren Ambarchi Call Myself 00:17:35
B Crys Cole; Oren Ambarchi Francis Debacle (Uno) 00:18:53
C Crys Cole; Oren Ambarchi Burrata 00:07:04
D Crys Cole; Oren Ambarchi Pad Phet Gob 00:16:16

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