living.room by jason chu

The new album from Chinese American rapper jason chu, living.room began on a trip home in early 2019 to move his family out of their house of 26 years. Starting with those demos written in his childhood neighborhood, the project was completed in the midst of a global pandemic and national lockdown. A reflection on growth, homecoming, and rest, living.room is 10 tracks of casually lyrical lo-fi rap music for warm, thoughtful days at home.

Created with jazz-hop producer Elyonbeats, the album features live instrumentation from keyboardist Fictitious Professor and touring guitarist Jeremy Ting along with sax player Neel Ghosh, with vocals courtesy of indie-pop artist Joe Kye, folk musician Shane Palko, singer/songwriter Leo Xia, and Atlanta rapper Uzuhan.

Tracklist

1.	Home	2:54

2.	Mood (feat. Leo Xia)	3:02

3.	Influencers	2:59

4.	24/7 Chill Lo-fi Vibes	1:51

5.	Polaroids (feat. Joe Kye)	3:49

6.	Delaware (feat. Shane Palko)	3:43

7.	GBTD (feat. Romellus Wilson, Chance Calloway, Leo Xia, Samantha Shen)	4:11

8.	Dumplings	2:48

9.	Honor (feat. Uzuhan)	3:07

10.	Westworld	2:41

Credits

released June 5, 2020

Produced by Elyonbeats, Nate Kodi, Mixtape Seoul, Chase "Flow" Bradley
Additional instrumentation by Joe Kye, Fictitious Professor, Jeremy Ting, Neel Ghosh.
Mixed by Joseph "HD" D'Ottavi (Track 1, 3-10) and Joshua Abelson (Track 2)
Photography by Fictitious Professor
Art direction by jason chu

Thanks to my creative collaborators and partners: Elyonbeats, Cam + Yuli, NITEMRKT, Andrew Chau, Fictitious Professor, Jeremy Ting, John Kim, Neel Ghosh, Joe Kye, Chase Flow, HD, Samantha Shen, Andrew Lee at 3Arts, and Nicholas Minniti at Proper One. Thanks especially to Peter, Kevin, and Tina N at GGE.

A special thanks to The Slants Foundation and Simon Tam for a generous grant in support of art that serves as an open letter to those who are furthering hate - in a manner that creates empathy, connection, and compassion. Find out more at www.theslants.org.

Shouts to 302, especially the Chu family, the Weber family (Brett, Marta, Justin, Karen, Jeremy), the Ganatra family, the Ogunnaike family, Kiel Drake, the Hung Wing Chinese Cultural Center, and Mrs. Gupta.

License

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.