You know you’re in Copenhagen when someone decides to build 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 AV and those visuals that feel like a seizure of beauty) behind it.
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They’ve set out to do the thing most people keep hidden: show how music is made. Not in a masterclass with coffee and clichés kind of way, but in real time, in a real room, with real people and possibly natural wine involved.
Three times already, they’ve turned Coco Hotel on Vesterbro into something like an intimate sound laboratory with an audience. And apparently it wasn’t just for the sake of art — now they’re releasing the music. The first single is called You can call me Patrick Swayze and was recorded in a single evening.
Does that sound rushed? It is. In the best possible way. The track has a roughness that only appears when no one has had time to ruin it with perfection. The kind of thing you normally only hear if you’re standing in the room while it comes into being. And that’s exactly what Bellens and Skovbjerg are inviting you into.
More of these studio sessions are on the way — next time on Thursday, May 15 — and if you feel like seeing how music can emerge somewhere between an espresso and an obscenely expensive wine from Jura, you know where to be.
Coco Hotel?
Yes, that very very polished place on Vesterbro, owned by Cofoco, with a café, natural wines, and a reception desk that looks like an interiors magazine with strong knuckles. It was named Scandinavia’s Best Hotel in 2023, though that may say more about the rest of Scandinavia than about Coco. Or maybe not.
Either way: this project sounds like something you’d wish you’d come up with yourself.
