New Collaboration Album from HOTEI
Guitarist HOTEI's new collaboration album, featuring eighteen musicians from seven countries, drops on November 25th.
Guitarist HOTEI will release a new collaboration album on November 25th.
Soul to Soul is intended as a prelude to the 40th anniversary of HOTEI's professional music career, which he will celebrate in 2021. Eighteen musicians from seven countries participated in the album's recording, which comes fourteen years on from the ex-BOØWY guitarist's previous such release SOUL SESSIONS.
His Japanese collaborators are ex-THE YELLOW MONKEY frontman Kazuya Yoshii, balladeer duo Kobukuro, enka singer Kiyoshi Hikawa, rock duo GLIM SPANKY, ex-BOOM BOOM SATELLITES bassist Masayuki Nakano, singer-songwriter Miho Fukuhara and soulster Yu Sakai.
Meanwhile, the international contingent consists of Italian bluesman Zucchero Fornaciari; Bluey of British acid jazz band Incognito; Brazilian percussionist Carlinhos Brown; Chinese singer-songwriter Yang Kun; American R&B singer Emily King and drummer Nate Smith; and French singers Calogero and Marc Lavoine.
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