My new album 'Diagnosis' is out now!

I’ve been making music since tiny baby. I was born in Kyoto and immediately delivered to a Volkswagen bus where I lived with my family til we landed in Western Massachusetts. There I learned saxophone from the legend Charles Neville. Then I taught myself all the other instruments. Afterwards I moved to Chicago where I met all the lovely people and made the recordings. Now I co-own Sooper Records and do my thing. Thank you ♥️

I release music on City Slang / Sooper Records.


Sen Morimoto

Headed Back East June/July
Tickets on sale - senmorimoto.com/tour <3

June 20 - Summerfest MKE
June 21 - Columbus
June 23 - DC
June 24 - Philly
June 25 - Queens
June 27 - Boston
June 28 - Greenfield
June 29 - Portland, ME
July 2 - Burlington
July 3 & 4 - Montreal
July 5 - Toronto
July 6 - Detroit

10 months ago | [YT] | 3

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Diagnosis is out today ❤️

Thank you so much everyone who helped make this thing exist. I am forever grateful. I think the CD is my favorite. Printed on its face are some words about what this album means to me.

Out now via @cityslangrecords / @sooperrecords
Written & arranged by me
Produced by myself, @brokthecasbah @kaina @ryantheperson_ @disco9000
Mixed by @brokthecasbah and me
Recorded at @friendsoffriendsrecording
Mastered by Bob Weston @chicagomasteringservice
Album Art by @ddesigns_ and @izzi.vasquez

Listen/order the LP/CD here : SenMorimoto.lnk.to/DiagnosisYD

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Amidst the climate crisis, an unending pandemic, potent misinformation, growing political unrest, and other existential crises—society remains bound to the internal “logic” of capitalism, broadly sacrificing human needs in exchange for profit and growth at all costs. This dynamic has seeped into every aspect of our lives; creating apathy and disillusionment in our individual journeys for meaning, sowing jealousy and distrust within our communities, coercing people to define their worth according to the language of this capitalistic illogic, and extinguishing our ability to envision alternative futures. Feeling doomed to watch in horror as we barrel towards an historic collision course with the consequences of this Sisyphean machination has become a daily routine and we’ve reached a point where even the movements, language, and art created to challenge these exploitative systems become absorbed and repurposed within its self-destructive pattern; where influencer status and commercial opportunism masquerade as authenticity, or even activism itself. The music industry is often no different. It presents the commodification of identity as a virtuous band-aid but fails to escape its vampiric nature or provide any real tools to dismantle institutional inequality.

Every sign, screen, slogan, and algorithmic suggestion begs us to be complacent, willfully ignorant, or too exhausted and powerless to remove ourselves from the intense forward momentum and downward pressure of the status quo. The discomfort we feel is the last blaring siren, trying desperately to alert us that danger looms ahead. While institutions of power tell us “stop fighting it, there’s nothing you can do!” or worse “only YOU can solve everything by buying (into) THIS” I hope this album, lyrically and sonically, makes the case for the value of weaponizing our internal dissonance toward more revolutionary paths for the self and society. I hope it validates the screaming voice within, without attempting to sedate or calculate or rationalize anything, that it holds your hand and screams with you.
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1 year ago | [YT] | 38

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BAD STATE OUT NOW
WATCH ON YOUR PHONE

Thank you to my family for making this with me 🫂

Directed, filmed and edited by Yuya J. Morimoto

Bad State written by Sen Morimoto
Produced by Sen Morimoto and @brokthecasbah

Vocals, Guitar, Saxophone: Sen Morimoto
Vocals: @kaina
Drums: @ryantheperson_
Bass: @disco9000

Recorded at @friendsoffriendsrecording
Mixed by @brokthecasbah and Sen Morimoto
Mastered by Bob Weston @chicagomasteringservice

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4zEJ...

1 year ago | [YT] | 20

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DIAGNOSIS music video out now 😈🦺📝🤑💣🤮 Go watch it 20 times you’ll still catch new frames 🧐

Thank you to the incredible cast and crew ILYSM!

Directed by @newtrashcrew & senmo
Director of Photography: @janadmclain
Gaffer: @cam.speedz
Key Grip: @q_pfitz
Swing: Evan Thompson
Editor: @connorwiles_
VFX: @nat_alder2006

Cast:
@direction_man_official @kaina @brokthecasbah @deedoersch @disco9000 @ryantheperson_ @nnamdithegreat @lieutenant_.reg @sooperrecords @jennifercroninart @yasminemifdal @larrykingkong Deshon L. Smith
Featuring the LEGEND @beerbatteredcod as SMU CEO‼️

Big shout out @7000wdiversey 🙇🏻‍♂️🩵🙏

Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmqpg...

1 year ago | [YT] | 9

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DIAGNOSIS my 3rd album will be released November 3rd on City Slang / Sooper Records! New video for the title track out now 😈

I’m so grateful to have art as a space to explore my thoughts and come to understand myself and the world we live in. These songs help me to remind myself that so much of the hopelessness and self doubt I feel is part of a larger pattern, made in part by design to protect the systems of late capitalism that quiet our inner convictions and deprive us of the ability to imagine alternative futures. Every song on Diagnosis is, at its core, an attempt to flip the lens around. To hold a magnifying glass over the systems we live in and empower us to investigate them with the same scrutiny.

Can’t wait to share ❤️

Album Art: 📸 @ddesigns_ 🎨 @izzi.vasquez

Listen/Pre-order the album here: senmorimoto.lnk.to/DiagnosisYD

1 year ago | [YT] | 16

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‪@SooperRecords‬ 🤝 ‪@CitySlang‬
Excited to announce I signed with ‪@CitySlang‬ and our first offering is out today!

“If The Answer Isn’t Love” video is out now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgZ_y...

Wrote this song about the enduring power of love and nature’s retribution 🌎

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