ELSEWHERE
Go anywhere.
Rooms that already existed. We rebuilt them.
The pitch
Everyone selling the next thing is selling you a future.
We sell the past.
By the evening.
A booth at the back of the Green Mill, the night Capone walked in. A table at the Copa Room, the year Sinatra started doing it sober. A jazz cellar in Pigalle, the small hours, the trio still playing for themselves.
Real rooms. Real evenings. Released one at a time, like episodes you tell people about.
The shape of it
Not a platform. A series.
Each room is one evening. Released like episodes, kept like editions.
A Place
A room that actually existed. Rebuilt to the booth, the lamp, the year. We start with the great music rooms.
A Handful of People
You and three friends, in spatial audio. A bartender who knows your drink. A singer at the mic who never looks at the camera.
An Evening
End to end. A house band, then someone famous walks in. A cocktail. An encounter. Something you describe at breakfast.
Episode 1
The Sunset
The Green Mill. Chicago. 1928.
A booth at the back. The house band working their way through Royal Garden Blues. Around 11:40, the door opens and the room goes a little quieter.
Every episode has one
A moment.
At 11:47, she walks past your booth. Slows. Glances over her shoulder. Leaves a coupe glass on the table and is gone.
The next morning, your friends will text you about it. That’s the test. That’s the product.
Episode 2
The Copa
New York. After the war. 1945.
Palm-leaf wallpaper, white tablecloths, a ribbon microphone on a chrome stand. The big band warms up. A thin man in a bow tie walks on, and the room forgets the war for forty minutes.
Episode 3
Le Caveau
Pigalle. Two in the morning. 1953.
A stone cellar that smells of Gauloises and red wine. A trio in the corner playing for themselves now that the tourists have gone home. The guitarist looks up, nods at you, and starts another.
The season
Season One.
Three evenings. Three rooms. Released one at a time, the way good television used to be.
- Ep. 01
The Sunset
The Green Mill · Chicago · 1928
- Ep. 02
The Copa
The Copa Room · New York · 1945
- Ep. 03
Le Caveau
A cellar in Pigalle · Paris · 1953
After the first three
Memphis on a Tuesday in 1954. Havana the night before everything changed. Harlem, the Apollo, the year Ella scatted Flying Home. A list of evenings the size of a century.
Three things, the wrong way round
Built on the opposite of what most of this category does.
Most of this category sells the technology.
We sell the evening.
Most of it puts you with strangers.
We put you with three of your friends.
Most of it is a back catalogue.
We release like a television series.
The list
Be there for episode one.
A small list. You’ll hear from us when the door opens, and not before.
ELSEWHERE
Go anywhere.
Season One opens this year.
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