Hotel Vast Horizon is the ninth album by singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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 and guitarist

Guitarist

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, Chris Whitley

Chris Whitley

Christopher Becker Whitley was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Whitley changed his sound frequently, and achieved modest mainstream success while maintaining a small but devoted following...

. It is his seventh studio album.

It was produced by Heiko Schramm, Chris Whitley, Matthias Macht, and Edgar M. Röthig. The album was recorded by Röthig at Helicopter Studio in Dresden

Dresden

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, Germany

Germany

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"Breaking Your Fall" won Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song at the 3rd Annual Independent Music Awards

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Track listing

All tracks written by Chris Whitley unless otherwise noted:

1. "New Lost World" – 4:24
2. "Breaking Your Fall" (Chris Whitley, Warner Poland, and Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt) – 3:23
3. "Frontier" – 4:43
4. "Hotel Vast Horizon" – 3:54
5. "Blues for André" – 2:52
6. "Assassin Song" – 3:56
7. "Wide Open Return" – 3:06
8. "Silhouette" – 4:26
9. "Insurrection at Newtown" – 3:33
10. "Free Interval" – 2:40

Trivia

• Part of a song verse in "Hotel Vast Horizon" references 'The Castle of the Poor', by French
  French people
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   poet, Paul Éluard
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• "Blues for André" refers to French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, André Breton
  André Breton
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Personnel

• Chris Whitley – vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar, and banjo
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• Heiko Schramm – electric bass
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   and acoustic bass
  Double bass
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• Matthias Macht – drums
  Drum kit
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   and percussion