Here’s some exciting news! Plume Girl – In the End We Begin is back in stock. You can order it together with Unnameable Glory at a special discounted price. This combo is exactly what you want to be listening to on your summer wanderings.
Happy release day🪽
Claire Rousay & Gretchen Korsmo
quilted lament
🕯️out now * full preview
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/quilted-lament
The title of ‘quilted lament’ perfectly captures the way Gretchen Korsmo and claire rousay’s overlapping missions come together to do just this. Worn polaroid melodies and snatched everyday noises seem overheard through windows onto the street. They feel emotionally twinned, claire and Gretchen, it’s not always possible to tell where one ends and the other begins.
Announcement 🌅
Claire Rousay & Gretchen Korsmo — quilted lament
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/quilted-lament
Out May 27 on digital / cassette
Under the right conditions, half-remembered dreams can meld seamlessly into hazy present moments. Time spent alone can be an emotional blank canvas, and an opportunity to deconstruct sense and feeling; a patchwork of snippets both rooted in memory and abstracted from reality.
7 track album
Announcement 🌒
@adambdonoval — a mirror where the image and the mirror wholly coincided
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/a-mirror-where-the-image-and-the-mirror-wholly-coincided
Pre-order now
Out May 13 on digital / cassette
Donoval’s sonic insights are, all at once, as light as a feather drifting on the breeze — borne by a melancholic hope — and yet as heavy as the wreck of a giant ship lost in endless darkness, like a shadowed thought quietly hibernating in the subconscious.
7 track album
Every landscape is musical, the question is how we can participate in it, how we can tune into it, what we will lend our ears to, and which compositions we will follow. How does this landscape transform in our memory? Do its sounds penetrate our dreams? These are some of the questions I’ve asked myself from the first time I listened to the demo of Fraufraulein up to today’s joyful release day.
fraufraulein — greater honeyguide
MAP056 IS OUT, digital, tape
Shipping on Tuesday, April 8th
Greater Honeyguide by fraufraulein is out next week on cassette.
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/greater-honeyguide
I'm already home from my remote office in Sicily.
Let me know if you're going to the Rewire festival next week. I'll show up there too and I can bring some mappa stuff.
5 track album
Hey from Catania,
As you may have noticed, ten days ago we released the pre-order for "greater honeyguide" by the US duo fraufraulein. It's a great teaser for spring sound walks, especially for those who are still eagerly waiting for spring. The release date will be in three weeks—April 3rd. Once again, it's a limited edition, and after years, we’ve collaborated with the fantastic visual artist Ramon Keimig.
5 track album
Fraufraulein’s music feels beamed from inner space, the soft parts of our consciousness that glow like a flashlight beneath fingertips.
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/greater-honeyguide
Out April 3 on digital, cassette
First two track "secret third thing" and "dodge ridge" out now!
Fraufraulein, the San Francisco duo of @billygomberg and Andy Guthrie, are master world builders. Their work is immersive — it wraps around you like a warm coat, guiding you deep into a trance-like state.
5 track album
