Music is a trigger. It can evoke emotions and experiences that may have happened years earlier, and nowhere is this more true than for travel. Sights and sounds are the things we remember the most. That was the idea behind these albums to provide the sounds to go with the sites – to feature the strange, the haunting, the unusual, the captivating, the charming – the music, in short, that makes you remember.

In a joint venture with Warner Music, Hip Hotels has launched the first of a series of albums based on music discovered in the process of travel. These are not compilation CDs in the traditional sense; it is music that reflects the emotive nature of travel.