Michele Di Stefano - L'altro Hotel
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX19) out September 2025, order at www.soundohm.com/product/laltro-hotel-lp and at www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12212&menu=2
Collector's edition available at www.soundohm.com/product/laltro-hotel-art and at shop.flash---art.it/products/michele-di-stefano-l-altro-hotel.

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Xing presents L’altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano, nineteenth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, including a collector's edition of 20 with a set of pseudo-exotic photo-postcards taken by the artist, with original notes and memos.

L’altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano brings together, in a lucid and amusing way, fragments of a vast collection of voice memos collected by him from around the world as a catalogue of localized sounds, precise moments of personal experience. The processing of the album consisted in converting these diaristic recordings into pieces of 'placed music’, inspired by phantom theories on non-selective listening (a form of 'nearby music') and presented as a radio program now in its fiftieth episode. Michele Di Stefano, the radio host, contextualizes them according to the canons of music journalism: title, band or artist, anecdotes relating to the creation of the song, recording techniques, ethnomusicological fantasies and other scattered news. The result is an escape from field recording and travel literature, arriving at a more complex territory, where fiction and reality conspire to immerse the restlessness of travel in a haze condensed by the imaginative power of sound. The author exposes, through these very credible fake news, a 360-degree vision of making art. The hits of unlikely artists such as Marina Lee Orghad or Jonathan Evelos are intertwined with a mix of atmospheres, landscapes, perspectives that connect Tunis to the Parisian Marais, the Reserva Nacional Tambopata in Peru to the trams of Rome and the rivers of Botswana...

Michele Di Stefano is a choreographer, performer and founder of mk, a group active in the international scene since 2000 with a vast corpus of shows, choreographic environments and evolutionary systems based on dynamic research, travel literature, sound and meteorology. Central figure of Italian dance, he is considered an explorer that constantly redefines the relationship between individual projects and the general horizon of movements. Besides live performances, he has an intense activity of lecturing, workshops and experimental proposals.
He was associated artist at the Teatro di Roma (2020-21) and at Milan Triennale (2022-24). He has received numerous awards and choreographic commissions for his activity (Silver Lion for innovation in dance at the Venice Biennale 2014, Ubu Award 2019, Danza&Danza Award 2018 and 2020, Ubu Special Award 2021). Since 2025 he is part of the curatorial team of Short Theatre Festival in Rome. Di Stefano also published the book Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (Quodlibet 2012) together with Margherita Morgantin, a text of choreographic instructions and climate reports. www.mkonline.it

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voice, texts Michele Di Stefano, recorded locations Le 15 - Central Tunis and Avenue Habib Bourguiba Tunis, Chott el Jerid and Hotel El Mouradi Douz Tunisia, Tram 5 Rome, Agiofarago Gorge Crete, Via Fanfulla da Lodi Rome, Traghetti Grimaldi Lines ferry Salerno-Palermo-Tunis, Santa Severa Train Station Rome, Marais Paris, Tambopata Research Center - Reserva Nacional Tambopata Peru, Khwai Concession - Okavango Delta Botswana, mix and master by Pasquale Savignano, cover photo by Michele Di Stefano, artwork by Xing, printed by handle with care Berlin.

XX19: Michele Di Stefano - L'altro Hotel - beside - excerpt side B 1

XX19: Michele Di Stefano - L'altro Hotel - aside - excerpt side A

XX19: Michele Di Stefano - L'altro Hotel - beside - excerpt side B 2

XX19: Michele Di Stefano - L'altro Hotel - beside - excerpt side B 3

This is the soundtrack I composed and produced for the movie "Me dasht', me dasht', me dasht (To Want, to Need, to Love)" (2017), directed by Ilir Hasanaj. This film documented human relationships among a very intense art project "Baushtellë: Balkan Temple", which took place in Pristina, Belgrade and Zurich in 2015, and some of the music and sounds were produced here as artworks for that project. Some of the works feature Tomor Kuçi and Angela Pina Ganzoni.

Running 2 - Arbër Salihu, Tomor Kuçi

I Love You - Arbër Salihu

N'dashni, n'biciklla - Arbër Salihu

What do you believe in - Arbër Salihu, Tomor Kuçi, Angela Pina Ganzoni

Intro - Arbër Salihu, Tomor Kuçi

Please Forgive Me - Arbër Salihu

Running - Arbër Salihu, Tomor Kuçi

Thank You - Arbër Salihu

Battleworld takes its pulse from Marvel’s fractured multiverse, a realm where worlds collide, merge, and fight for survival. Earth-616 channels this chaos into dark minimal techno: metallic rhythms, echoing kicks, and hypnotic grooves that feel like stepping into a cosmic arena, where every beat is a battle and every drop a decisive strike.

Battleworld

Magellanic Cloud

Hala

78 Menit Lembana di Jogja

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 8/7/25

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Summer Pride ain't over yet!

From 2002:  They began as a flamboyant ragtag troupe of genderbending hippies in 1969 San Francisco. But that New Year's Eve, they gave a performance for the ages, and the outrageous and highly-original drag legend named The Cockettes was born. More than 30 years later, the documentary THE COCKETTES captured their story, told by surviving members and a reminisce by John Waters. We chatted with directors Bill Weber & David Weissman.  

From 2015:  A misanthropic lesbian, fresh off a breakup with her girlfriend, has her world disrupted by the unexpected arrival of her pregnant teen granddaughter needing financial help. But Grandma is broke, so the women hop in the car and take a ride, knocking on the doors of old friends and flames and stirring up memories in GRANDMA, and we sat with star Lily Tomlin and writer/director Paul Weitz (ABOUT A BOY).  

Then, ALL-NEW "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including ﻿﻿THE NAKED GUN; THE BAD GUYS 2; THE PICKUP; ﻿﻿HARVEST [Mubi 8/8]; IT'S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY and ﻿﻿THE OSLO TRILOGY (LOVE, SEX and DREAMS).

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This week's featured soundtrack: ﻿﻿THE NAKED GUN (2025) (music by Lorne Balfe) [Milan Records]

THE COCKETTES + LILY TOMLIN + ALL NEW MOVIE REVIEWS (CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (8-7-25)

Poetry, performance, and moments of quiet singalong. Zahna Siham Benamor offers 47 minutes of mystery, softness, and playful presence.

Zahna Siham Benamor @ Drift Radio 21-08-25

Community space and online radio station
Open every Thursday, 14:00-22:00
Located at Mimersgade 60, 2200 (tiny house on the square)
Copenhagen, Denmark

Arbër Salihu is a Kosovan artist, composer and music producer known for his solo act La Fazani, and for the emotionally resonant, genre-blending scores across film, television, and theatre. With a background in modern composition and a passion for storytelling through sound, his work bridges orchestral depth, electronic textures, and Balkan musical sensibilities.

He is the composer behind the hit Kosovan TV sitcom 3 Vllaznit (ATV), and has scored several award-winning films, including The Canaries Know (Best Original Score, Sapporo Shorts Japan) and As I Was Looking Above, I Saw You Underneath. His music has accompanied theatre productions such as Spring Awakening, 5 Stinët e Armikut, and Artemide’s Huntresses, and his classical work Variations on Luleborë earned 3rd Prize at the Chopin Piano Fest.

In addition to his work as a composer, Arbër is also known as the successful solo artist La Fazani — winner of the first edition of the Kosovo Song Festival with the song “Oj Kosovë”. His debut album Specie Turshi received critical acclaim and further solidified his presence in the Albanian alternative music scene.

Arbër’s range as a composer is reflected in his versatility — from lyrical piano pieces to vibrant electronic beats, children’s songs, and ambient textures. His children's music channel Planeti i Fëmijëve has reached over 2 million viewers on YouTube.

With a BA in Music Composition and over 10 years of experience, Arbër brings narrative sensitivity, technical skill, and emotional depth to every score he creates.

Earth-616 is a New York-based collective of three: DJs Peter Stark and D. Princess, and vocalist Nana Wayne, whose stage presence fuses club energy with performance art. Lifelong fans of the Marvel universe, they weave its mythology into their music and visuals and proudly stand by the belief that Marvel beats DC. Their dark underground techno blends minimal grooves, metallic percussion, and deep warehouse reverbs, building sonic worlds as intense as any superhero showdown.

Album release date:
9 August 2025

New tracks tagged #performance art