You know you're in Copenhagen when someone comes up with the idea of building a recording studio in the middle of a boutique hotel. And you know it works when it's Jacob Bellens and Martin Skovbjerg (yes, the one from AV AV and the kind of visuals that feel like a fit of beauty) who are behind it.
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They've set out to do what you'd otherwise keep hidden: show how music comes to be. Not on such a Master class with coffee and clichés-way, but in real time, in a real room, with real people and possibly natural wine involved.
Three times they have already transformed the Coco Hotel on Vesterbro into something reminiscent of an intimate sound laboratory with the audience. And apparently it wasn't just for the sake of art -- now they're publishing the music. The first single is called You can call me Patrick Swayze It was recorded in a single evening.
Does that sound hasty? It is. In the good way. The number has a rawness, which only comes when no one has had time to spoil it with perfection. The kind you normally only hear if you're standing in the room while it occurs. And that is exactly what Bellens and Skovbjerg invite to do.
There will be more of these studio sessions — next time on Thursday 15th May — and if you want to experience how music can arise in the middle of an espresso and a pig wine from Jura, you know where to be.
Coco Hotell?
Yes, that's it there very nice place on Vesterbro, owned by Cofoco, with café, natural wines and a reception that looks like an interiors magazine with good knuckles. It was named Scandinavia's Best Hotel in 2023, but that perhaps says more about the rest of Scandinavia than it does about Coco. Or maybe not.
Either way: this project sounds like something you wish you'd come up with yourself.
