Suitcase Suite by Louis Jucker

Have you ever picked up a suitcase and thought of all of the ways you could use it to make an album? Strangely enough, Louis Jucker built a handful of instruments using luggage as body pieces, as the album cover of his new record Suitcase Suite shows. Besides using an extremely novel concept, the record also engages with a fascinating mix of sounds and themes, creating a record absolutely shockingly varied once you remember that every sound you hear was somehow made by a suitcase. Through his exploration of jazz, post rock, and blues, Jucker focuses on various angles of the idea that we chase happiness through a false ideal life that will never befall us. On commercials, we see a workless world awash with love and light, and many of us make the mistake of trying to turn this life we’re being sold into our realities, an attempt which will always end in disappointment. We instead receive fleeting moments of bliss against a background of slow, unstoppable decay, made more bearable by the fact that we can just pack it all up and hope for the best somewhere else. -Michael