Los Angeles, CA (January 31, 2020) — When an individual turns 50, they often spend that complete 12 months celebrating in as massive of a manner as doable to make it their greatest and most memorable birthday but. Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Richie Kotzen is taking the idea actually, as he gears up for the discharge of his most bold album to this point, and he desires to share this massive birthday current to himself together with his followers around the globe.
50 FOR 50—his 22nd solo album–is due out Monday, February three by way of his personal customized label, Headroom-Inc. The self-produced three-disc assortment is simply what the title implies: a group of 50 beforehand unreleased compositions produced, carried out and written by Kotzen in honor of his birthday. It’s the follow-up to his critically acclaimed SALTING EARTH album, which was launched April 14, 2017 by way of Headroom-Inc.
Though Kotzen has been hailed as a guitar virtuoso because the launch of his first album, it’s his emotional lead vocal supply and numerous songwriting fashion that separates him from his friends thanks largely to artists that influenced him within the Philly Soul R&B to Jazz, Rock, Funk, and Fusion Guitar genres. 50 FOR 50 captures the total creative scope of what makes Richie Kotzen such a singular artist.
“The thought of a 50 track album got here to me whereas I used to be on tour someday final 12 months,” Kotzen explains. “I had accomplished what would have been your typical 10 to 12 track album and was anticipating a 2020 launch. Someplace alongside the road, I found just a few accomplished songs that for no matter purpose had been by no means launched. Together with that, I discovered a large assortment of fabric that was in numerous types of completion. Some songs had drums bass and piano with no vocal, different songs had been nothing greater than a bass line and a vocal melody and so forth. I made a decision to take that summer season and fall, keep within the studio, and see what number of of those concepts I might convey to completion. The idea was to incorporate the already accomplished works and end the opposite concepts after which cease as soon as I reached 50 songs. Actuality is we’ve bought far more sitting on the laborious drives ready for consideration. I figured if I can stroll out of the studio with 50 songs (that I like) combined and mastered, I can launch a 50 track package deal on my 50th birthday.”
The primary track from 50 FOR 50, “Satan’s Hand,” can even be launched on Monday, February three by way of all digital shops. As Kotzen says, “The track touches on loss and remorse whereas romanticizing a previous that will or might not have been as it’s being remembered within the current.”
About SALTING EARTH, Classic Guitar hailed, “Presenting one of the best combo meal of blue-eyed soul, ripping guitar, and accessible tunes, this album continues Kotzen’s prolific rise. His one-man-band manufacturing fashion serves an unfettered imaginative and prescient of ardour and vulnerability.” Whereas MusicRadar.com praised, “When RICHIE Kotzen picks up his guitar, it actually speaks by way of him. These conversant in the American singer/guitarist’s work or who’ve seen him dwell will know he sometimes hums alongside to the runs he’s executing, effortlessly showcasing a degree of musicianship only a few certainly ever get to. He embodies the type of participant that’s unequivocally in tune with their instrument, and in a position to improvise utilizing purely the thoughts’s eye.”
Richie Kotzen will proceed to have fun his massive birthday with followers everywhere in the world beginning with an look on the “Monsters of Rock Cruise” kickoff celebration on February 7 in Miami, FL on the Magic Metropolis On line casino. His North American tour will start with a three-night engagement in New York Metropolis on the Iridium Jazz Membership on June 23, 24 and 25. The worldwide tour will take the birthday celebration to Mexico, Europe, Latin America, Japan and Southeast Asia. An entire checklist of worldwide tour dates are posted on Kotzen’s official web site and social media pages.
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