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Cover of Empty Rooms, Open Hours

EP · 2019

Empty Rooms, Open Hours

by Vanta Lux

Six tracks for empty places after hours: a market in the rain, a hotel room, a pool with nobody in it.

Tracks

  1. 1. Wet Market, Warm LightsRain on the awnings and lanterns in a line. A nostalgic one, with the groove sliding like a wet street.nostalgic house, dub house2:39
  2. 2. Last Night in My Old BedLast night in my old bed, streetlight on the ceiling. I wrote it the night before I moved and played it quietly.wistful deep house, ambient house3:57
  3. 3. Street Sweeper, First LightA brush on the road at break of day, sweeping the night away. The tempo is exactly his stroke.warm deep house, minimal house3:44
  4. 4. Midnight Lap, Empty PoolNobody here but me and blue light on the ceiling. I recorded it in the actual silence of an empty pool hall.dreamy deep house, empty-club ambient3:43
  5. 5. Ice Machine Hum, Room TwelveRoom twelve, curtains tight, the machine humming down the hall. That hum is the whole bassline.hushed deep house, dub-tinged ambient3:38
  6. 6. Balcony Plants, Watered at MidnightA little watering can at half past twelve. A gentle one to leave on.tender house, cosy house3:57

Liner notes

I'd been thinking a lot about empty-club acoustics: how a room sounds when everyone has gone home. So I went looking for other rooms like it: a pool at midnight, a hotel room with the ice machine humming, a street sweeper's first pass. I set up and recorded each of them in one take, and I let the room tone stay in.

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