Electric Island, Acoustic Sea

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Electric Island, Acoustic Sea
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 8, 2017 [1]
Genre Jazz, rock
Length53:57 [1]
Label Daniel Ho Creations, House of Strings, Vermillion Records [1]
Tak Matsumoto chronology
enigma
(2016)
Electric Island, Acoustic Sea
(2017)
Daniel Ho chronology
Between the Sky & Prairie
(2017)
Electric Island, Acoustic Sea
(2017)

Electric Island, Acoustic Sea is a collaborative studio album by Grammy Award-winning musicians Tak Matsumoto (Japanese guitarist of B'z fame) and Daniel Ho (American multi-instrumentalist). The album debuted at #7 on the Oricon weekly album chart [2] and at #6 on the Billboard Japan album chart. [3] "Island of Peace" and "Rain" are re-recordings of songs previously released in Matsumoto's 2014 solo album New Horizon .

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Soaring on Dreams" Daniel Ho 5:31
2."Fujiyama Highway" Tak Matsumoto 4:08
3."Magokoro (True Heart)"Ho5:01
4."Infinite Escapade"Ho4:45
5."Faithfully" (Journey cover; lyrics by Jonathan Cain) Jonathan Cain 3:28
6."Sunny Tuesday"Matsumoto3:29
7."Wander Blues"Matsumoto3:46
8."Adrenaline UP!"Matsumoto, Ho4:00
9."Omotesando"Matsumoto4:45
10."Island of Peace"Matsumoto5:19
11."Rain"Matsumoto5:40
12."Lia"Ho4:05
Total length:53:57 [1]

Personnel

Session members

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