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Sen Morimoto is a Japanese American singer / multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Chicago. His mix of jazz and hip-hop production, spoken-word rap and pop sensibilities form a super-genre of modern songwriting and experimental grooves.
Sen has spent years collaborating with all scenes in Chicago from rap (Pivot Gang), Pop (KAINA), Jazz (Resavoir), Indie (Lala Lala), etc… He’s a conduit to all the different scenes and it goes beyond making music. He’s a label head (Sooper Records), an Activist (was on the front page of the Chicago Tribune for it in 2020) and is also a part of the poetry and writing scene.
His 2018 debut LP Cannonball! Was co-released by media giant 88Rising and the Chicago indie label that Sen co-owns, Sooper Records. He subsequently released his self-titled 2020 follow up on Sooper Records. Both albums garnered critical acclaim in the USA, Europe, and Japan, and led Sen out onto the road including several tours of the USA, three tours of Japan, and appearances at Festivals including the Boiler Room Jazz Festival (UK), Summersonic (Tokyo), Boro Festa (Kyoto), Head In The Clouds (USA), Treefort Festival (USA) and PDX Jazz Festival (USA).
Chicago artist Sen Morimoto has announced Diagnosis, his third LP and first with the venerable City Slang label in partnership with his own Sooper Records for November 3rd. The announcement arrives with a prodigious video for the title track. A narrative continuation of the previously released visual for “If The Answer Isn’t Love” this video finds Sen walking into his convenience store job where things quickly derail into a scathing take on the commodification of identity and trauma in the music industry. The video takes Morimoto through a sell-your-soul scenario complete with specific references to current exploitation tools and more. Watch here. About the video, Morimoto says: The video for diagnosis is an over the top story about the music industry and an artist who thinks they can fix it from within (he can’t!).
