Released as a limited edition of 2oo individually numbered copies, each with a unique hand painted sleeve.

Hotel Music is a pastiche of Serge Gainsbourg hooks, bedroom drone, California Pop (by way of Van Dyke Parks), and Downtown experiments. It is a musical portrait by Michael Leonhart, session player to the stars. It was written and recorded over the course of a fivemonth stint (if a worldwide tour that long can be accurately labeled a stint) playing horns with Steely Dan (yes, Steely Dan). He passed his downtime on the road abusing various cameras & cell phone cameras, his portable sampler, laptop and whatever instruments that happened to be within reach. The result is a more experimental trip than his sadly underheard pop masterpiece The Ballad of Minton Quigley (2007, self-released).

Leonhart has recorded four solo records in as many years between Steely Dan and Lenny Kravitz touring, as well as sessioning with such diverse artists as Brian Eno, David Byrne, Slash, Steven Tyler and Wynton Marsalis

1. Adelaide
2. Nightingale Floors
3. Atlanta Transport 519
4. Botanique/Canberra Gravel
5. Hawaiian Sink Divers (Fly with Me)
6. Snake in the Hole
7. On the Midnight Moog Train from Paris to Berlin
8. The Madman from Kyoto
9. Memphis Trolley Rolls Through the Mountain
10. Viennese Snowsong for Mona
11. Florydian Casinos