The pitchforkfest happens this weekend in Union Park. Today's schedule includes local multi-instrumentalist senmorimoto on the Green stage at 2:30 PM. Check out this feature on Morimoto from our 2018 archives! | ✍️ imLeor 🎶
In July, Sen Morimoto quit his job as a barback at Big Star with no plans to look for other work—the 24-year-old singer, rapper, producer, and multi-instrumentalist had decided to try supporting himself as a musician. Since moving to Chicago in 2014, he’d been content to hold down restaurant jobs and take opportunities to work on his music—an adventurous blend of hip-hop, jazz, prog rock, and pop—wherever he could find them.
Launched in 2015 by Sean Miyashiro, formerly of defunct Vice electronic-music site Thump, 88 Rising releases music, but it’s not strictly a label. It also manages artists, produces music videos and video interviews, and handles marketing. In just a few years, it’s tapped into a huge international fan base for pop music made by Asians.
Morimoto’s parents enrolled him in the Amherst Japanese Language School, but he struggled to keep up with other students his age. “For the first few years, they all had to speak English to teach me anything,” he says. He proved a quicker learner when it came to music.
Today Morimoto is one of the most promising young artists in Chicago because of the euphoric blend of genres in his music, but as a teen he tended to compartmentalize those interests.
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