Shai Maestro - The Guesthouse LP

The Guesthouse is about collaboration, inclusion, and the essence of welcoming, which is the essence of an open door. It’s my most ambitious project to date, sonically and compositionally. It involves so many incredibly talented people: some are in the front, playing music together with me, offering their insight, time, effort, and love, and some incredibly talented and hardworking people are behind the scenes, facilitating, allowing, and inspiring me to keep pushing forward. Musically speaking, the color palette on The Guesthouse is huge. It introduces many musical guests that I admire deeply: MARO, Immanuel Wilkins, Michael Mayo, and many more. It includes lyric writing for the first time, electronic instruments, guitars, trumpets, flutes, flamenco musicians, in-depth production work, my quartet, solo piano, odd meter explorations, improvisations, songs with no time, strings, two pianos conversing, and more and more and more… I dove as deep as I could into these deep waters. The result is my attempt to turn the creative chaos that lives in my mind into one coherent artistic statement, always having a simple melody as a thread that tells the story of this collective.