The House Is Burning

Score (feat. SZA & 6LACK)

Félicie Bazelaire double bass
Silvan Schmid trumpet

zwischen (Félicie Bazelaire x Silvan Schmid)

I Deserve

Smino - I Deserve (feat. NOS.)

0 Bappin Needed 🏴 (Bvrberry x f4rid)

Rent Due Soon.

Happy Belated 2 Kobe “Bean” Bryant

It been a while…
I Spent Alotta time becoming a better fren to myself..
I spent Alotta time searching for time I already had…
I spent Alotta time tryna make this shit perfect only to realize
the only perfect things come from God and just being myself is perfect bc
I come from God Himself…
I spent Alotta moments wondering if I even gave a fuck about dropping 
Music bcuz in dis world…it seems like the talent isn’t appreciated as much 
as the “Challenge” or the moment..

Rent Due Soon…

Preciate err body who been rocking wimme thru the years…
Thru the label change…its some real coo people looking after 
the music now and I’m excited to show y’all how much I dun grown…


D R O P T O B E R 
we tearing shit down. 

Love to da SmiHive y’all niggas keep me on my toe…hoes..

Luv 4 Rent OTW

24-8 Produced By Phoelix

90 Proof

Smino, J. Cole - 90 Proof

Luv 4 Rent

Smino, Doechii, Fatman Scoop - Pro Freak

CC Sorensen - Phantom Rooms
mappa.bandcamp.com/album/phantom-rooms

A house is something that is so deeply temporary, yet it can hold so much energy. How do we carry or leave behind those energies while transitioning into new spaces? How does each space we occupy for some time shape us and how do we tear ourselves away from it and its influence once it’s time to go? These are some of the core questions behind CC Sorensen’s new album for mappa, ‘Phantom Rooms’ – it’s a record about movement, change, transformation, family, juxtapositions… but most of all, home.

CC Sorensen was reflecting a lot on their childhood home in rural Kansas, USA while working on this music. The album could be characterised by a familial, chamber feel and both of CC Sorensen’s brothers, Ryan and Nyal Ruehlen, make an appearance on ‘Phantom Rooms’, among other instrumentalists. Using a wide palette of sounds – CC Sorensen alone in charge of keyboards, software instruments, voice, electronics, percussion, trumpet, guitar and field recordings, in addition to guests on pedal steel, voice, chimes, saxophone and drumset – the American musician crafts music as mysterious as it is inviting. The idea behind it would be almost surrealist – ghostly rooms in houses where we live – if we all didn’t know exactly what CC Sorensen means. Home isn’t something concrete, but it’s also not just an abstract concept. It’s a space beyond space; home in itself is a phantom room we enter. And what enables us to enter is the object of exploration here.

CC Sorensen’s approach is playful – tracks like “Beat Bot” and “Plastic Portals” are almost fun – but also contemplative. They make thoughtful, meandering chamber music intertwined with field recordings and electronics. Reeds, strings and percussion often set the atmosphere – sometimes airy, gentle, at other points more insistent – as the music grapples with departure, instability, deep reflection and imagined future spaces. Especially in the closing “Bexar” there’s a tangible yearning for a stable home, a longing to rekindle and keep ablaze this beautiful familial connection to a physical place. It’s both music that invites to reflect and music that in itself reflects; desires, hopes and dreams.

released September 22, 2022

CC Sorensen - compositions, keyboards, virtual software instruments, voice, electronics, percussion, trumpet, guitar, field recordings 
ccsorensen.bandcamp.com

Featured Artists: 
Damon Dennis - pedal steel (5) 
Alan Mudd - words & voice (4) 
Nyal Ruehlen - voice, chimes (3) 
Ryan Wade Ruehlen - saxophone (4,5,7) 
Scott Dean Taylor - drumset (5,7)

"This album is about homes, transitioning between homes and the histories and memories of houses."

Artwork and layout by Seth Graham 
www.instagram.com/sethaarongraham/

Mastered by Andrew Weathers 
andrewweathers.com

Words by Adam Badí Donoval 
abdonoval.com

Photography by Zoltan Czakó

Released by mappa as MAP035 in 2022

Phantom Rooms

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