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Toshihiko Mori
Jinen
Biophon
- Cat No: BIO35LP
- Release: 2020-11-13
- updated:2021-02-02
Built around the theme of Jinen (自然 — nature, things as they are), this record centers on improvisations played on a Prophet 5, woven together with the 8-bit sampler of a vintage YAMAHA VSS-30, guitar pedal effects, and field recordings gathered while wandering through Japanese forests and mountains. The result is a masterful four-track synthesizer ambient work — elegant, coexisting with nature, and imbued with a distinctly Japanese sense of wabi-sabi and refinement — now released on Biosphere's BIOPHON label!!!
"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).
A new ambient work from the legendary TOSHIHIKO MORI — known for his early '90s New York-based collaborations with the likes of PAL JOEY under the JAZZADELIC name and a string of house music 12-inch releases, later contributing to Towa Tei's records, serving as keyboardist on Ryuichi Sakamoto's world tour, forming the fabled production unit SP-1200 Productions, and racking up numerous major-label works as ajapai — has been released on Biosphere a.k.a. Geir Jenssen's BIOPHON label!!! Highly recommended. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)