5 Star Motel - Vinyl LP
Overview
Product Information
- Vinyl Format: Vinyl LP
- Release Date: 04-06-2018
- Label: Wonderwheel Recs
- Genre: International
Track List
- Tail Chaser
- Canción Del Ray
- Plaid Suit
- Pinto
- Yama
- Siskayou Trail
- Grand Street Feast
- Zone Jumper
- Whiskey Road
- El Millonario
- Fang Dubbard
- Ohm Rider (When You Die You'll Meet God)
Product Information
Originally released in 2018, 5 Star Motel is the beloved debut album from Gitkin-a fuzz-soaked, genre-blurring tribute to a long-lost uncle who once crisscrossed America selling knock-off guitars and trading stories in roadside motels. Pieced together through scattered family anecdotes and the discovery of an old cassette, the album imagines a life shaped by late-night encounters with fellow travelers-immigrants from Ethiopia, Mexico, Indonesia, and beyond. Their musical echoes ripple through the record, where Peruvian chicha rhythms dance with desert blues, Middle Eastern scales meet twangy Americana, and everything is filtered through a warm, analog haze.More than a tribute, 5 Star Motel is a journey-through memory, myth, and melody. It's an album that celebrates the way music moves across borders and cultures, reshaping itself along the way. Repressed for 2025, this cult favorite still sounds like a dispatch from somewhere just outside the map-restless, raw, and timeless.
- Vinyl Format: Vinyl LP
- Release Date: 04-06-2018
- Label: Wonderwheel Recs
- Genre: International
Track List
- Tail Chaser
- Canción Del Ray
- Plaid Suit
- Pinto
- Yama
- Siskayou Trail
- Grand Street Feast
- Zone Jumper
- Whiskey Road
- El Millonario
- Fang Dubbard
- Ohm Rider (When You Die You'll Meet God)
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