5 Star Motel by Gitkin - Wonderwheel [WONDERLP27]
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5 Star Motel

Gitkin

A 12 track afrobeat album (41m 40s) — released October 31st 2025 on Wonderwheel

#world #afrobeat

Originally released in 2018, 5 Star Motel is the beloved debut album from Gitkin—a fuzz-soaked, genre-blurring tribute to a long-lost uncle who once crisscrossed America selling knock-off guitars and trading stories in roadside motels. Pieced together through scattered family anecdotes and the discovery of an old cassette, the album imagines a life shaped by late-night encounters with fellow travelers—immigrants from Ethiopia, Mexico, Indonesia, and beyond. Their musical echoes ripple through the record, where Peruvian chicha rhythms dance with desert blues, Middle Eastern scales meet twangy Americana, and everything is filtered through a warm, analog haze.

More than a tribute, 5 Star Motel is a journey—through memory, myth, and melody. It's an album that celebrates the way music moves across borders and cultures, reshaping itself along the way. Repressed for 2025, this cult favorite still sounds like a dispatch from somewhere just outside the map—restless, raw, and timeless.

4x Airplay - Lauren Laverne BBC 6 Music

Grand Street Feast is quite simply a marvellous track... - Laurent Garnier

Love It - Rob Da Bank

Review Confirmed - Songlines

Airplay - Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music

Airplay - FatPlanet Double J Australi

Airplay on - Gideon Coe BBC 6 Music

Airplay on - BBC 3 World

Whiskey Road - Lemellotron France

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