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Hotel X - Engendered Species - Cassette
Hotel X is a world music/jazz group founded in 1992 in Richmond, Virginia by Tim Harding and Ron T. Curry as a setting to explore electric bass duets, Hotel X was quickly joined by a host of Richmond, Virginia underground music scene veterans and released six albums on the Los Angeles based SST Records. SST Records was founded by members of the seminal punk rock group Black Flag and included in their catalog some of the great American underground groups such as Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Sound Garden, Universal Congress Of and Saccharine Trust.
Hotel X toured regionally and nationally between 1992 and 1997, received reviews in Jazz Times, Washington Post, Option, The Wire and Alternative Press among others; was nominated for Best Jazz Group by the National Association of Independent Record Distributors (NAIRD) 1996, and participated in the JVC Jazz Festival in New York City in 1997. National Public Radio selected soundbites of several songs from the Hotel X album "Engendered Species" for use between news stories in 1994. Richmond Magazine awarded Hotel X with the Pollack Prize for Excellence in Arts in September 2005.
Track Listing
1. Casa Noir
2. Turnaround
3. Little Brother Ben
4. Barney And Earl
5. Fulani Hymn
6. She Makes Time
7. 2 Street
8. Obsequy
9. Sophisticuffs
10. Scorpio
11. Georgia
12. Footprints
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