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Last night, Googling "Newport and Sunset Cliffs Boulevard" to see where in San Diego those two streets collide, an add for the Inn at Sunset Cliffs appeared just below the map. Clicking on the link out of curiosity, the sounds of waves and gentle guitar picking trickled out of my laptop speakers.
I sat staring at the screen, transfixed by the music. I don't know tons about music--I don't; not my area. Yet, music has played a large part in my life and continues to mold and to move me. Just as it had almost a year ago while staying at the Hacienda Inn in Desert Hot Springs when I opened the french doors to the private patio at the back of my room to hear delicate yet passionate guitar picking wafting over the fence from the suite next to mine.
Assuming this music to be already on the mass market, I was determined to add this artist to my collection. I didn't hesitate. I dropped a note through their online message system inquiring after the artist. In the AM I checked my inbox to find this message waiting:
"Good Morning,Roody. My name is Alex Dausch and I am the assistant manager of the hotel. When I am not working here, I run a small recording business out of my home. We used to have some crazy re-mix reggae on the website and a lot of people complained about it, so I took the liberty of writing a quick tune for it and gave it to the hotel. I am thrilled to hear you like it. Thank you!"
Alex, who coincidentally received his Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing, is the owner of South Park's Studio Studios where he produces and engineers audio recordings for clients. Understandably having listened to his guitar playing, many of those clients also use him as a session musician. He's played guitar, as well as piano, bass and other assorted instruments, for H.A. Perkins, Mathew Walker Project, Lindsay White, Veronica May, Talia, Allegra Barley, Megan Combes, Vanessa Contopulous, Ryan Dunlap, The Stereotypes and many others.
The blue and white 24 room ocean front inn that employs him has recently been renovated modeling the hotel's decor after those found on the tiny volcanic Greek Island in the Aegean Sea, Santorini. I, myself, would have been interested to see replicas of the cave hovels dug from the lava rock cliffs, but, if the hundreds of comments left on TripAdvisor.com are any indication, few walk away dissatisfied by the accommodations and service, let alone panoramic 180-degree ocean view afforded from the hotel's terraced gardens within sight of the Ocean Beach pier.
I'd visit the Inn just because of Dausch's music playing on the homepage--I'm the type who buys wine for the label so that shouldn't come as any surprise. The looped music, which I've been listening to nonstop while writing this, reflects well the sentiments expressed by reviewers of their experiences there, the one I can well imagine having there myself. It definitely sets the stage.
Last night, Googling "Newport and Sunset Cliffs Boulevard" to see where in San Diego those two streets collide, an add for the Inn at Sunset Cliffs appeared just below the map. Clicking on the link out of curiosity, the sounds of waves and gentle guitar picking trickled out of my laptop speakers.
I sat staring at the screen, transfixed by the music. I don't know tons about music--I don't; not my area. Yet, music has played a large part in my life and continues to mold and to move me. Just as it had almost a year ago while staying at the Hacienda Inn in Desert Hot Springs when I opened the french doors to the private patio at the back of my room to hear delicate yet passionate guitar picking wafting over the fence from the suite next to mine.
Assuming this music to be already on the mass market, I was determined to add this artist to my collection. I didn't hesitate. I dropped a note through their online message system inquiring after the artist. In the AM I checked my inbox to find this message waiting:
"Good Morning,Roody. My name is Alex Dausch and I am the assistant manager of the hotel. When I am not working here, I run a small recording business out of my home. We used to have some crazy re-mix reggae on the website and a lot of people complained about it, so I took the liberty of writing a quick tune for it and gave it to the hotel. I am thrilled to hear you like it. Thank you!"
Alex, who coincidentally received his Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing, is the owner of South Park's Studio Studios where he produces and engineers audio recordings for clients. Understandably having listened to his guitar playing, many of those clients also use him as a session musician. He's played guitar, as well as piano, bass and other assorted instruments, for H.A. Perkins, Mathew Walker Project, Lindsay White, Veronica May, Talia, Allegra Barley, Megan Combes, Vanessa Contopulous, Ryan Dunlap, The Stereotypes and many others.
The blue and white 24 room ocean front inn that employs him has recently been renovated modeling the hotel's decor after those found on the tiny volcanic Greek Island in the Aegean Sea, Santorini. I, myself, would have been interested to see replicas of the cave hovels dug from the lava rock cliffs, but, if the hundreds of comments left on TripAdvisor.com are any indication, few walk away dissatisfied by the accommodations and service, let alone panoramic 180-degree ocean view afforded from the hotel's terraced gardens within sight of the Ocean Beach pier.
I'd visit the Inn just because of Dausch's music playing on the homepage--I'm the type who buys wine for the label so that shouldn't come as any surprise. The looped music, which I've been listening to nonstop while writing this, reflects well the sentiments expressed by reviewers of their experiences there, the one I can well imagine having there myself. It definitely sets the stage.