Hotel Room Stories

Platypus’ first album Hotel Room Stories captures impressions of a trip through Japan in the fall of 2013 and expresses it through its own musical language. The individual songs traverse through various moods, images and intensities, playfully contrasting meditative silence with total sensory overload. Japanese music meets both traditional and modern soundscapes, enabled by a unique set of instruments consisting of turntables, viola, saxophone, percussion, voice and effect units. In this way, the impressions of Japan are processed and experimented with, melding two very different cultures.

Most compositions were written by Michel Barengo during the trip, which is reflected in the hotel room numbers used as the songs’ titles.