Jnbo is the moniker assumed by Melbourne / Naarm-based composer, producer/engineer and bass player Henry Jenkins.

Jenkins is known to most as the producer/engineer behind Surprise Chef, Karate Boogaloo, and the Grammy-nominated Frollen Music Library.

Serving as College Of Knowledge Records' in-house recording and mix engineer, Jenkins has provided the sonic constitution for Melbourne / Naarm's instrumental cinematic soul movement.

& Friends sees Jenkins turn his abilities to his own brilliant compositions. The album comprises 12 introspective instrumentals - deep, cinematic odysseys steeped in romance and sincerity, with an unmistakable `freak funk bump'.

Jenkins explains the conceptualisation of & Friends: "I wanted to write a record I would look forward to recording with my friends.

The 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.

I tried to make that contrast the character of the record. I felt that every song should have the same instrumentation and with the same personnel.

This 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."