{"product_id":"jnbo-jnbo-friends","title":"Jnbo - Jnbo \u0026 Friends","description":"\u003cp\u003eJNBO is the moniker assumed by Melbourne \/ Naarm-based composer, producer, engineer and bass player Henry Jenkins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJenkins is known to most as the producer\/engineer behind Surprise Chef, Karate Boogaloo, and the Grammy-nominated Frollen Music Library.\u003cbr\u003eServing as\u003cbr\u003eCollege Of Knowledge Records’ in-house recording and mix engineer, Jenkins has provided the sonic constitution for Melbourne \/ Naarm’s instrumental cinematic soul movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; Friends sees Jenkins turn his abilities to his own brilliant compositions.\u003cbr\u003eThe album comprises 12 introspective instrumentals - deep, cinematic odysseys steeped in romance and sincerity, with an unmistakable ‘freak funk bump’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJenkins explains the conceptualisation of \u0026amp; Friends:\u003cbr\u003e“I wanted to write a record I would look forward to recording with my friends.\u003cbr\u003eThe music I was writing had a funk sensibility in the bass and drums, contrasted by a more cinematic approach in the harmonic and melodic content, with guitars slipping and sliding in between.\u003cbr\u003eI tried to make that contrast the character of the record.\u003cbr\u003eI felt that every song should have the same instrumentation and with the same personnel.\u003cbr\u003eThis became an enjoyable creative constraint; how much variation could I pull out of the same 8 instruments over the course of the album? I wanted to find as much diversity as I could within these tight bounds.” Jenkins applied these principles to the recording of \u0026amp; Friends, bringing together longtime musical collaborators Hudson Whitlock, Darvid Thor and Callum Riley (Karate Boogaloo), Lachlan Stuckey and Jethro Curtin (Surprise Chef), Lewis Coleman and Lena Douglas (The Cactus Channel) to realise\u003cbr\u003eunconventional arrangements across three guitars, piano, string synthesizer, Hammond organ, drums and bass, with Jenkins himself assuming bass guitar and production duties.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe resulting album is a strikingly unique melange; moments of picturesque ambience move into head-nodding funk, with the three guitars and three keyboards precisely arranged across the stereo field throughout.\u003cbr\u003eThe record displays the influences of film composer Bernard Herrmann, lounge pioneer Les Baxter and Motown’s Lamont Dozier, alongside JNBO’s own eccentric idiosyncrasies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOR FANS OF...\u003cbr\u003eSurprise Chef, El Michels Affair, Menahan Street Band, Les Baxter, Bernard Herrmann\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"COLLEGE OF KNOWLEDGE","offers":[{"title":"Standard Edition Black Vinyl","offer_id":53414749143367,"sku":"TRI-71282","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/9c6a1f8a50ec9982e688161c561d40e7.jpg?v=1772122778","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/jnbo-jnbo-friends","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}