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Recap: Japan Tour 2023, Tokyo to Hiroshima to Osaka (and stops in-between)

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Recap: Japan Tour 2023, Tokyo to Hiroshima to Osaka (and stops in-between)

Over the years, there's been a number of Aloha Got Soul events in Japan, the majority being held in Tokyo thanks to the help of our friends at Kakubarhythm. When we started thinking about what 2023 would look like for AGS in Japan, we reached out to Rush Production for assistance. The brothers behind Rush -- Yasushi and Fumi -- have for many years worked with Tommy Guerrero (we're big fans!), and after an introduction to Rush in early 2020 (pre-COVID) thanks to our friend Hashim Bharoocha, we felt we could count on Rush to create something special on behalf of Aloha Got Soul. So we...

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2020 End of Year recap, part 3: Madvillain, Dae Han, and all 25 releases of 2020

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2020 End of Year recap, part 3: Madvillain, Dae Han, and all 25 releases of 2020

In all, we dropped 27 releases in 2020. A handful of them were digital-only, which I'm happy to pursue because it allows us to expand our catalog more quickly and it gives our fans and new listeners more music to dive into. For that, I couldn't be more excited for.

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2020 End of Year recap, part 2: Soul Time in Tokyo

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2020 End of Year recap, part 2: Soul Time in Tokyo

While we couldn’t make it overseas this year, we pulled together a 90 minute tri-city stream from Tokyo, LA, and Honolulu. Soul Time in Tokyo 2020 supported by Technics.

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2020 End of Year recap, part 1: Teresa Bright's "Blue Skies"

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2020 End of Year recap, part 1: Teresa Bright's "Blue Skies"

Teresa Bright's Blue Skies is an unreleased jazz vocal album recorded in 2005 with pianist/arranger Kit Ebersbach and bassist Steve Jones.

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Recap: Third time's a charm: Japan with Lord Echo and friends

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Recap: Third time's a charm: Japan with Lord Echo and friends

Bookended by gigs with Lord Echo in Tokyo and Osaka, our recent travels to Japan found us gigging in Kyoto, Nagoya, and Fukui.

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