L'altro Hotel
a disc of Michele Di Stefano

8/9/2025 - 8/9/2025

Xing presents the LP L’altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano, nineteenth release of XONG collection - artist records.
The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, including a collector's edition of 20 with a set of pseudo-exotic photo-postcards taken by
the artist, with original notes and memos.

L’altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano brings together, in a lucid and amusing way, fragments of a vast collection of voice memos collected by him from around the world as a catalogue of localized sounds, precise moments of personal experience. The processing of the album consisted in converting these diaristic recordings into pieces of 'placed music’, inspired by phantom theories on non-selective listening (a form of 'nearby music') and presented as a radio program now in its fiftieth episode. Michele Di Stefano, the radio host, contextualizes them according to the canons of music journalism: title, band or artist, anecdotes relating to the creation of the song, recording techniques, ethnomusicological fantasies and other scattered news. The result is an escape from field recording and travel literature, arriving at a more complex territory, where fiction and reality conspire to immerse the restlessness of travel in a haze condensed by the imaginative power of sound. The author exposes, through these very credible fake news, a 360-degree vision of making art. The hits of unlikely artists such as Marina Lee Orghad or Jonathan Evelos are intertwined with a mix of atmospheres, landscapes, perspectives that connect Tunis to the Parisian Marais, the Reserva Nacional Tambopata in Peru to the trams of Rome and the rivers of Botswana...



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Soundohm (international mailorder)
standard edition (E 23)
collector’s edition (E 60)

Flash Art (only special editions)
collector’s edition (E 60)

Les presses du rèel (international distribution)
standard edition (E 23)

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