Orbital Hotel Interview

Our music explores diverse styles of music. We combine elements of hard rock, space rock, fuzz rock, noise rock and electro-pop rock with distorted and clean electric guitars, acoustic guitars, groovy bass, heavy drums and acoustic percussion. We like quiet songs as well.

We play together this type of music since 2014, but we played already before. We are from Vienna, Austria.

I met Teo in a rehearsal with other people, and later I met Tamer in an event where we eventually discussed music and made plans to jam with Teo. We immediately started playing own quiet melodies. Rock came later.

The first Orbital Hotel record titled "In Orbit" came out organically from Ideas I already had for acoustic and electric guitars. We include several of these tunes in our regular repertoire like Just Rumours, Room Control, Room Service, and Meanwhile. "It feels like nothing" is almost always included in quiet settings. Some of the recordings I find a bit raw, but they are the first intents of loud faster songs like Cambrian, Main Blow, Nested Loop, Escape Velocity and Check In. No Idea we now play mostly in pop version!

The music style and feeling is about the same I would say, but songs and riffs are harder and the songs are a little bit more complex.

Not really, the process and style is pretty much the same.

Yes, with the time things are more structured and the experience performing live is invaluable.

I came home from a long trip where I had accumulated plenty of ideas. I reviewed them and chose the ones that were the most promising and I made the songs.

The opportunity of traveling gave me new ideas, everything I saw and experienced. Since I had enough material to work on, I decided it was a good time to make an EP with them.

Heavy riff Melodies interlaced with soft rock songs

Several new things, for example in Magma I change the feeling of the song by accelerating the drums in several parts, in Molecular Cloud I came up with a chord progression where I try to keep the bass beat at the same time of playing spacy type guitar. In Wavefront I tried to make something that sounds bluesy but not really...

Thanks for checking. In fact I have made more than that, I have 14 albums of quiet acoustic guitar (www.preza.org/jlguitarra), in total they are about 330 melodies published. I don't feel I get "inspired", but what actually happens is this: when I try to play something like doing some excersizes or playing a tune I have already made, new things come up and I just keep playing the new things.. Sometimes things come out quite ok and they go to the bucket list.

I like the intro of Missing Link...

Missing Link for the feeling it gives me the heavy riff and Molecular Cloud for its sweetness.

We had the opportunity to support for many years the European Researchers Night event in Vienna.

To play in international festivals.

To continue creating music.

Thanks for taking the time to read!