About "The Glass Hotel Tapes"
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One day after the USA withdraws from the Kyoto Protocol, Sofie Conrad decides to save the world.
She leaves her home country and checks into the "Glass Hotel" in Berlin. One suitcase, one keyboard, one tape recorder. She quits her job by phone and orders a bottle of champagne from room service.
After three days, Sofie Conrad disappears. Without a trace. She leaves behind a chaos of graphics, texts and tape recordings.
The work of the former member of the US Kyoto delegation, created during the three days in Conrad's room at the Glass Hotel, is exhibited as part of an Art Nouveau project at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts before being stored in the attic and forgotten.
21 years later, members of the band Johnny Bob are alerted by an anonymous note on a cigarette packet that someone has left in the backstage area. Curious, they sift through the fragments from "Glass Hotel" with the permission of the Conrads family.
After intensive examination of the work, the band finds out that Conrad's art creates the key to a new world. The musicians then decide to give the "Glass Hotel Tapes" a voice.
The fifth Johnny Bob album "The Glass Hotel Tapes" is dedicated to the estate of Sofie Conrad. The graphic sketches were interpreted by Hamburg artist Anja Walter and processed into the cover artwork. The band integrated some of the original text and tape fragments into the album's lyrics and arrangements.
The "Glass Hotel" no longer exists.
Sofie Conrad was never seen again.
