Elevator Songs - Gabriel Kahane,roomful Of Teeth - Vinyl LP Record (Arrives in 50 days)

Nine characters. Six rooms. One interdimensional hotel. With Elevator Songs, the first collaboration between multi-Grammy-winning vocal group Roomful of Teeth and singer-songwriter/composer Gabriel Kahane, the laws of time and space give way to pure feeling. Scored for the eight voices of Roomful of Teeth plus Kahane on keyboards and guitar, the album draws additional color from two members of the vocal ensemble—Eliza Bagg on violin alongside Jodie Landau on vibraphone. The group tracked the album in a whirlwind four days at the end of 2024 with the help of three-time Grammy-nominated engineer/producer Joseph Lorge. The resulting album runs the emotional gamut from the ridiculous (“Valise,” “Hot Tub”) to the wrenching (“Not Even the Dead,” “Memory Burns”) and everything in between. With each song—one for each member of Roomful of Teeth and bookended by a pair of tunes sung by Kahane, who wrote and arranged the entire work—a distinct world emerges in a succession of hotel rooms. It sounds like nothing so much as itself, and yet, for all of its freshness, it is, first and foremost, a rich and resonant collage documenting the human condition.

Tracklist

1. Prologue: Speaking In Tongues
2. Room 304: Newborn Plague
3. Room 813: St Vincent's Hospital
4. Room 1832: Valise
5. Room 1801: Rack of Time
6. Entr'acte: the Machine Room
7. Room 1211: Sophomore Record
8. Fitness Center: the Hot Tub
9. Room 1212: Not Even the Dead
10. Lobby: Memory Burns
11. The Elevator: All That is Solid

Label: Warner Music Group | Origin: Holland