Cocktail Hour Companion

Music for rooms
you're designing

Original 1960s-inspired lounge, curated to a brief. For hotels, bars, restaurants, shops and screens — where the music has a job to do and a playlist won't do it.

Where it works

Somewhere people
stay a while

Hotels & lobbies

Arrival, lounge and bar treated as separate rooms with separate moods, not one feed piped everywhere.

Bars & restaurants

Music that shifts across an evening — early tables, the middle of service, last call.

Retail & galleries

Atmosphere that supports the room and the merchandise rather than competing with them.

Film, TV & advertising

Period-accurate cues for productions set in, or evoking, the mid-century.

Events & installations

Weddings, launches, exhibitions and pop-ups that want a specific era in the air.

Something else

If the room is unusual, that's usually the interesting part. Tell me about it.

How it works

Curated to a brief,
not sold off a shelf

  1. 01

    Tell me the room

    What the space is, how long people stay, what time of day matters most, and what it should feel like when someone walks in.

  2. 02

    I build the selection

    Drawn from the catalogue, sequenced for your hours and your room. Where nothing quite fits, I can record something that does.

  3. 03

    You license what you use

    Scope, term and territory agreed in writing before anything goes live, so you know exactly what you're cleared for.

Why not a playlist

The difference

  • One catalogue, one handEvery recording comes from the same place, so the sound stays coherent across an entire venue instead of lurching between artists.
  • No ads, no algorithmNothing interrupts, and nothing gets swapped out because a recommendation engine decided so.
  • Written for the backgroundRecorded to sit under conversation at low volume, which is a different craft from music made to be the main event.
  • A person to callWhen the room changes, or the brief does, you talk to the person who made the music.

Rates

Quoted per project

A hotel group and a single bar are not the same job, and neither is a national campaign. Rather than publish packages that fit almost nobody, I quote against the actual brief.

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Helpful to include

  • What the space or production is
  • Roughly how many locations or screens
  • How long you need it for
  • Where it will be heard or seen
  • Any deadline you're working to