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Songyrd Presents Sen Morimoto
with Model Home
Sunday June 23, 2024
Doors - 7:00 PM
Show - 8:00 PM
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Sen Morimoto is a Japanese American singer / multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Chicago. His mix of jazz and hip-hop production, spoken-word rap and pop sensibilities form a super-genre of modern songwriting and experimental grooves.
Sen has spent years collaborating with all scenes in Chicago from rap (Pivot Gang), Pop (KAINA), Jazz (Resavoir), Indie (Lala Lala), etc… He’s a conduit to all the different scenes and it goes beyond making music. He’s a label head (Sooper Records), an Activist (was on the front page of the Chicago Tribune for it in 2020) and is also a part of the poetry and writing scene.
His 2018 debut LP Cannonball! Was co-released by media giant 88Rising and the Chicago indie label that Sen co-owns, Sooper Records. He subsequently released his self-titled 2020 follow up on Sooper Records. Both albums garnered critical acclaim in the USA, Europe, and Japan, and led Sen out onto the road including several tours of the USA, three tours of Japan, and appearances at Festivals including the Boiler Room Jazz Festival (UK), Summersonic (Tokyo), Boro Festa (Kyoto), Head In The Clouds (USA), Treefort Festival (USA) and PDX Jazz Festival (USA).
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Model Home is an experimental hip-hop duo from Washington, D.C., consisting of lyricist NAPPYNAPPA and producer Pat Cain, along with various collaborators who vary from release to release. The project’s raw, unfiltered improvisations pit NAPPYNAPPA’s heavily processed vocals against spluttering drum machines and cracked electronics, recalling the avant-rap freak-outs of underground legends Sensational and Occasional Detroit. 2020 LP One Year compiled highlights from the project’s lengthy series of self-released digital albums, and full-lengths like 2021’s both feet en th infinite flirted with danceable rhythms. 2022’s Saturn in the Basement, a second compilation, included a collaboration with Japanese experimental icon Phew.
NAPPYNAPPA (Davonte Squire) began making waves in the D.C. hip-hop scene around the beginning of 2017, when he was 20 years old. New Balance, released by Babe City Records, kicked off a productive run of solo EPs, albums, and mixtapes. Concurrently, Model Home started releasing numerically titled digital albums in June 2018, reaching 6 the following January. Their first album was pressed to vinyl by the mysterious Ornette Coleman Fiend Club imprint, and the duo brought their intense performances outside of the D.C. area. Future Times released Model Home’s 8, featuring contributions from Dolo Percussion (aka label founder Maxmillion Dunbar, of Beautiful Swimmers, and formerly of noise-rap group Food for Animals).
In 2020, after Model Home had released their 16th recording, Warp sublabel Disciples issued One Year, containing tracks from their first eight albums. The label also released a cassette of One Year’s material deconstructed by Detroit experimental turntablist crew Pure Rave. After Model Home self-released 17, the single “REV” b/w “Flesh” appeared on Future Times, preceding the full-length SE. Additionally, the group collaborated with His Name Is Alive on a mixtape titled Versions Returned. Don Giovanni released Model Home’s LP both feet en th infinite in 2021. Saturn in the Basement, compiling selections from 11 through 18, was issued by Disciples in 2022. Phew, who also released material on the label, appeared on “Naked Intentions,” the set’s only previously unreleased track. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Songbyrd Music House, 1-3, Penn St NE, Washington, DC 20002, United States,Washington D.C.
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