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The title of Tryst?s third album derives from a Tokyo love-hotel which songwriter Tim Cohan lived near for a year. Recently, Cohan had a Japanese friend call the hotel to ask if Tryst could put its photo on the album cover. The hotel said sure, and explained it had actually just bought a new sign with a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge on it ? either a weird coincidence or a good omen for Brooklyn-based Tryst. ?Hotel Two-Way? is Cohan?s most personal album to date. Each song tells a story, usually about love and heartbreak, drawing on Cohan?s personal experiences and mixing in the imagined lives of others. In ?Jessica,? the narrator wishes he could have saved Private Jessica Lynch. ?Alexis? is a fantasy about a round-card girl that Cohan met at an amateur boxing match in Del Rey, Florida. ?Hotel Two-Way? is about a guy experiencing the ups and downs of being unemployed in NYC. ?Hotel Two-Way? was recorded at Hoex Studios in Albany, near Cohan?s home town of Saratoga Springs. Mike Viola of The Candy Butchers mixed ?Abigail? and added vocals to ?Still.? Additional mixing was done at Stratosphere in Manhattan.