Listening to "Hotel in LA" by singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Kramies and I feel a dichotomy of sounds and visions. I feel an overwhelming emotional sense and while this is accomplished by a density of sound, that density carries with it a vagueness. Kramies holds out his stories with an outstretched hand but it is within a haze, a fog of emotional sonics. You can feel, hear glimpses of his voice coated with a patina of melancholia and degrees of loss but you might have to decipher those words. He trades any transparency with opaque elements. In this way, the atmosphere overall plays out like a mystery or even a horror show. In this regard, "Hotel in LA" is brilliant in amping up as much unease as it does beauty. Two constants that the city this song references carries in spades, in it's bruised, battered fucked up arms.
OF "Hotel in LA", Kramies shares:
“I have kept a lot of memorabilia, photos and letters from my past. Especially stuff from touring and travels. I’ve had a pretty unique life as an artist so I’m glad every time I move to a new place to find old memories of things I might have otherwise forgotten about. I wrote ‘Hotel in LA’ on a day that I found an old letter from someone I used to care about. It was a fond memory even though it might have sounded a bit sad. Most of my songs seem to have that element. In the letter was a paragraph on how we joked about having to make a hotel that was falling apart in California into something lovely by hanging photos over the cracked and water stained walls, eventually filling the walls with 1000 frames.
I’ve never known how these songs come about and through me but this one was a special moment in time. The letter and lyrics came from the time when I was at the height of my drug addiction before I got clean. The song was originally titled ‘Shitty Hotel in LA.’ It kind of follows that timeline of my life where there was a beautiful blur between the lines of what was real and what was nostalgia in the making. I write a lot these days, and the best part about this song was that I captured it on a balcony overlooking the Blue Ridge Parkway. I’ll never remember how to play it again, which makes it even more of a lost memory caught in time.”
"Hotel in LA" ultimately feels surreal and otherworldly made up of things that you cannot quite touch. Eventually, I will cobble together all the words and hope after reading them that they don't keep me up at night.
Written by Kramies, produced by David Goodheim and Todd Tobias with a dreamy video by Derek Lee LaJoie Song, "Hotel in LA" exists on the upcoming self titled full Length "Kramies" dropping on September 9th, 2022.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Kramies, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, collaborator, wordsmith, visionary, avant pop, indie rock, art rock, art folk, folk indie, "Hotel in LA", upcoming album "Kramies",
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/kramies/
https://soundcloud.com/kramies
https://twitter.com/kramies
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2nJoTFq3w9UjrqtsyZVzOG
https://kramies.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kramies/
Along with his critically acclaimed EP The Wooden Heart, as well as Of All The Places Been & Everything The End produced by Jason Lytle (Grandaddy), Todd Tobias (Guided by Voices) Jerry Becker (Train), Kramies has worked and performed with known artists such as Grandaddy, Clexico, and Spiritualized and many others. In 2021 Kramies teamed up with Patrick Carney of The Black Keys to produce his first Top 10 radio single "Days Of". By the beginning of 2022 Kramies had two top ten songs on college radio and is slated for his first highly anticipated LP in September of 2022.
** At this particular time we find ourselves in a financial pinch due to many factors. We want to keep AP going. It has been a passion project for over 13 years. PLEASE consider donating, we could really use the support. Thanks so much
We get by with a little help from our friends
Kramies, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, collaborator, wordsmith, visionary, avant pop, indie rock, art rock, art folk, folk indie, "Hotel in LA", upcoming album "Kramies",
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