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Osaka Love Hotel

About Me

Osaka Love Hotel is a sound born out of the alienation of living in a city that consumes and proceeds to vomit out art, culture and creativity.

I've shut myself off from the city of the walking dead and lashed out with sound.
That is Osaka Love Hotel.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 31/07/2007
Band Members: Josh Higginbotham - All guitars, bass, keyboards, drum programming, vocals, mixing, potty breaks, moments of zen, moments of madness, social anxieties and phobias, screams at 3AM, hair pulling and head smashing.
Influences: I am a sponge for a vast array of influences. An incomplete list in no particular order:

The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In, Surrealism, Devin Townsend, Dan Swano, Agalloch, John Zorn, Buckethead, Michael Hedges, Luna Sea, Kagrra, Boris, Pain of Salvation, Loveholic, Wu-Tang Clan, Aurora (Japan), Iron Maiden, Ulver, Arcturus, Dokken, Freak Kitchen/Mattias Eklundh, Meshuggah/Fredrik Thordendal, Eric Dolphy, Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dali, Egon Schiele, Buddha, vikings, goldfish, Sean Hoen, Miles Davis, Carcass, Portishead, horror films, Kool Keith, Charlie Chaplin, Dream Theater, Frank Zappa, Akira Yamaoka, Yoshitaka Amano, Allan Holdsworth, Marillion, John Coltrane, Celestial Season, Funeral, Ayumi Hamasaki, Cardini, The Damned, The Cure, Anathema, Cynic, Dir en Grey, Gallhammer, Greyswan, Isengard, Jaco Pastorius, Jesu, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Katatonia, October Tide, Loveholic, The Mars Volta, Oingo Boingo, Paul Gilbert, Sir Millard Mulch, Talk Talk, Vintersorg, Vertu, etc...
Sounds Like: Trying to find your soul in the mud.
Record Label: Unsigned.

My Blog

OLH album samples

It's been a long time since I've updated anything OLH related, so here's a little something for anyone that's wondered what the hell is going on. I've uploaded an audio file of several short clips of ...
Posted by on Mon, 19 May 2008 22:46:00 GMT

Still alive and far too busy.

I'm not dead yet. I've been working on music a fair amount, but I have nothing to share. I'm currently writing a full length OLH album when I can find the time to work on it. I have far too many oblig...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:09:00 GMT

Song Notes - The Slow Art of Balding

    I haven't had enough time to record since classes have started again and I've gone back to work (all on top of teaching guitar lessons as well). So the spontaneous attitude of OLH w...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:12:00 GMT

Song Notes - Assorted Maladies

This song is the shortest so far, but also the biggest pain. The concept behind it was to write a song that changes time signatures in each measure and I designated each time signatures through random...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:02:00 GMT

Song Notes - Shibari I and Shibari II

These two songs are obviously influenced by Naked City to a great degree, but with 70's prog rock analog synths over the top and in the first installment a short doom metal interlude. Shibari I was re...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:11:00 GMT