Jinen

Toshihiko Mori – a former keyboard player with Ryuichi 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 Ryuichi 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 Ryuichi Sakamoto’s first solo album B-2 Unit when I heard his music.” (Geir Jenssen, aka Biosphere)