About
Hotelle
South Korea , Paju
South Korea , Paju
2025
2025
"Jude Ray... he was a friend, an artist, a composer. One day, he discovered this hotel during a stay in Paris. It quickly turned into an obsession. It was no longer just a simple place; he personified it, spoke to it, even offered it flowers. We started to get seriously worried. Were drugs involved? Hard to say, Jude was pretty private about that.
We had to get him out by force. In the process, he managed to grab a bar of soap. That soap, he later wore it as a pendant, like a last connection. Forbidden to return to the hotel, he was consumed by longing.
So, he did what he did best: he composed. An entire album dedicated to that place, to his love for it, to the nostalgia that consumed him. It was his way of expressing what he felt.
Shortly after finishing that album, he died. We never really knew the full story with that hotel. What remains is his music, and the memory of the strange presence of that hotel that lured him away like a siren."
"Jude Ray... he was a friend, an artist, a composer. One day, he discovered this hotel during a stay in Paris. It quickly turned into an obsession. It was no longer just a simple place; he personified it, spoke to it, even offered it flowers. We started to get seriously worried. Were drugs involved? Hard to say, Jude was pretty private about that.
We had to get him out by force. In the process, he managed to grab a bar of soap. That soap, he later wore it as a pendant, like a last connection. Forbidden to return to the hotel, he was consumed by longing.
So, he did what he did best: he composed. An entire album dedicated to that place, to his love for it, to the nostalgia that consumed him. It was his way of expressing what he felt.
Shortly after finishing that album, he died. We never really knew the full story with that hotel. What remains is his music, and the memory of the strange presence of that hotel that lured him away like a siren."
