Jinen by Toshihiko Mori
Toshihiko Mori – a former keyboard player with Riuichi Sakamoto – has made an EP for Biophon Records using the legendary Prophet 5 synthesizer as the main instrument.
Toshihiko Mori was born and lives in Tokyo. He toured with Riuichi Sakamoto all over the World in the 90s as a keyboard player and rhythm arranger. He also did all the drum programming on Sakamoto´s album Smoochy released in 1995.
Jinen is a different affair though. It contains no drums or sequencers, only improvisations on the Prophet 5, plus the occasional vintage Yamaha VSS-30 8-bit sampler, a few granular guitar pedals and some field recordings from Mori´s walks in the Japanese forests and mountains. Jinen is Japanese for Spontaneity.
“I was thinking Japanese culture, hi-tech and nature, Shinkansen, film directors like SABU, Masaki Kobayashi and Akira Kurosawa, and Riuichi Sakamoto´s first solo album B-2 Unit when I heard his music.” (Geir Jenssen, aka Biosphere).
Credits
All tracks written and produced by Toshihiko Mori for Ajapai Entertainment.
CD and digital version mastered by Toshihiko Mori.
Vinyl mastered by Stefan Betke.
Photography by Toshihiko Mori.
Design by Joanna John.
BIO35 Biophon Records 2020.
