Auke Hulst schreef met ‘Motel songs’ een indringend en muzikaal reisboek over de kracht van kunst en de schaduw van de dood. âTime held me green and dying / though I sang in my chains like the sea.â â Dylan Thomas Medio 2016 reed Auke Hulst van de Amerikaanse Oostkust naar de Westkust, dwars door het achterland van Trump, op zoek naar sporen van literaire en muzikale helden, met een auto vol muziekinstrumenten en opnameapparatuur. Motel Songs brengt hem van F. Scott Fitzgeralds graf in Rockville, Maryland naar diens geboortehuis in St. Paul, Minnesota, naar Memphis, Tennessee, waar Jeff Buckley in een shotgun shack woonde en in de Wolf River verdronk; naar Ketchum, Idaho, waar Ernest Hemingway zich door het hoofd schoot, en naar Seattle, waar Kurt Cobain hetzelfde deed. Daarnaast bevat het verhalen over Philip K. Dick en Prince en essays over zelfmoord, opgroeien met Amerikaanse soft power en urban exploration. Motel songs gaat vergezeld van het gelijknamige album, dat Hulst onderweg schreef en opnam in motel- en hotelkamers.
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