Malca told Cool Hunter, I purchased the property because I thought it was insane. The New York based dealer transformed it into the now-open Casa Malca. That is until art dealer Lio Malca took over the property and gave it a complete makeover. It also includes Wilson’s publishing rights to songs recorded by the likes of Taylor Swift, John Legend, Dierks Bentley, P!nk, Josh Groban and Chris Stapleton. For the last 14 years, Escobar’s resort on the beaches of Tulum sat empty. Primary Wave confirmed to Rolling Stone that Wilson’s deal comprises his entire catalog. The cherry on top is the karaoke anthem that is Semisonic’s “Closing Time,” which spent 13 weeks at Number One on the modern rock chart in 1998. It also houses six songs from The Chicks’ Taking the Long Way, one being “Not Ready to Make Nice, which won the Song of the Year Grammy in 2007. Casa Malca is a big beachside villa which has been rescued from the encroaching sand dunes in a restoration job. Wilson’s deal includes a total of three Adele songs - “One and Only,” “Don’t You Remember,” and the multi-platinum “Someone Like You” - all of which are on the star’s groundbreaking debut album 21, which he helped produce. This is Casa Malca, belonging to New York art scene mover-and-shaker Lio Malca, and his version of KAWS’s signature Companion figure is just one of a serious collection of modern and contemporary art to grace his eight-room hotel. And it comes just one month after Stevie Nicks’ similar deal with Primary Wave. Only one week into 2021, this is the third major acquisition of songwriting rights this year, following that of Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham and Neil Young. The property's areaincluding200 meters of beachfrontas well as the site's landscape and history were crucialin developing the remodeling and interior design project.The site is located in Tulum's hotel zone near the limits of the Sian Ka'an reserve,whose. Genre-traversing hitmaker and Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson has signed over 100% of his catalog - around 350 songs - to music publishing and management company Primary Wave, the latter announced on Thursday. Casa Malca, its name already tells a lot, it is how Lio Malca shares his home andlove for art, in the shape of a very special hotel.