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About Me

The Grand Hotel Abyss is the solo ambient/experimental project of Christopher Costabile. You can find out more about this outrageously zany fellow at the following website: christophercostabile.com
Please be sure to contact me or add me to your friends if you are interested in any aspect of this project, or to tell me about your own! Thanks.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/6/2006
Band Website: www.christophercostabile.com
Band Members: Christopher Costabile - guitars, effects, keyboard, percussion.
Influences: Musical: Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Terry Riley, Gavin Bryars, Talk Talk, La Monte Young, Robert Ashley, Albert Ayler, Sigur Ros, Meredith Monk, Charles Mingus, Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Muhal Richard Abrams, Jerry Hunt, Ennio Morricone, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Steve Reich, Spring Heel Jack, Olivier Messiaen, Laurie Anderson, Sparklehorse, Anthony Braxton, The Velvet Underground, Bowie, Alvin Lucier, Ali Akbar Khan, Bang on a Can (and the Cantaloupe Music label), Tom Waits, The Flaming Lips, Michael Gordon, Pierre Schaeffer, Eric Dolphy, The AACM, John Cale, John Cage, Radiohead, Satie, Michael Nyman, Ray Barretto, Harmonia, Faust, all forms of Free Music
Non-Musical: Marcel Duchamp, Andrei Tarkovsky, Guillaume Apollinaire, Yves Klein, Ingmar Bergman, Max Ernst, L.S. Asekoff, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, foreign films, short films, paintings, almost all surrealist art and poetry.
Sounds Like: A daredevil crew of PB&J sandwiches sky-diving from a picnic basket after being whisked away by an out-of-control hot air balloon.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Debut ambient album on last.fm

I've posted my debut ambient album on the site, last.fm.  Check it out and please let me know what you think:The Grand Hotel Abyss
Posted by on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:23:00 GMT

Poem in PEAG newsletter

One of my poems was recently included in the poetry section of the Progress Energy Art Gallery newsletter.  Here is the poem along with the painting (by Henri Rousseau) upon which it is based: ...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:30:00 GMT

Eat this, "Pet Sounds" fans

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/thewire.html
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:56:00 GMT

Eight Ruminations

This blog is a compendium of some ideas I've had over time, in addition to two quotes (by Paul Klee and Harry Partch, respectively).  I do not necessarily believe all of these things, but would m...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:03:00 GMT

christophercostabile.com

I’ve created my own website!!  It is meant as a tool to chronicle and advertise all facets of my artistic and literary work and abilities.  Please click on the following link.... chris...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:32:00 GMT