2017 studio album by Inaba/Salas
Chubby Groove is a collaborative studio album by Japanese singer Koshi Inaba, of B'z fame, and Native American musician Stevie Salas. It was released by Vermillion Records on January 18, 2017.
Overview
The album debuted at #2 at the Japanese Oricon weekly album charts, while #2 at Top Albums Sales and #4 Hot Albums chart list by Billboard Japan. It also reached #44 at the Billboard Japan Top Albums Sales Year End 2017, and #47 at Oricon's year end chart, being certified Gold by RIAJ.
The song "Overdrive" was used in Japan in a commercial for the new Porsche Panamera and "Trophy" was the image song for the 2017 Wowow Tennis Season. "Aishi-Aisare" peaked at #62 in the Japan Hot 100 Singles chart, spending one week there.
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Koshi Inaba; all music is composed by Stevie Salas, except "Blink", co-written by Parthenon Huxley
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1. | "Sayonara River" | 3:48 |
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2. | "Overdrive" | 3:12 |
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3. | "Wabisabi" | 3:14 |
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4. | "Aishi-Aisare" (Love, Be Loved) | 3:33 |
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5. | "シラセ (Shirase)" (The News) | 4:19 |
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6. | "Error Message" | 3:52 |
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7. | "Nishi-Higashi" (East-West) | 3:18 |
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8. | "苦悩の果てのそれも答えのひとつ (Kunou no Hate no Sore mo Kotae no Hitotsu)" (What Lies at the End of Agony is Also an Answer) | 3:29 |
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9. | "Marie" | 3:29 |
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10. | "Blink" | 4:53 |
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11. | "My Heart Your Heart" | 3:49 |
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12. | "Trophy" | 4:35 |
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Total length: | 45:31 |
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Personnel
Additional personnel
- Backing vocals
- Additional guitars
- Bass
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- Drums and percussion
- Keyboards
- Amp Fiddler on tracks 1, 2, 6, 8 and 9
- Hideyuki Terachi on "Sayonara River" and "Error Message"
- Lou Pomanti on tracks 5, 7, 9, 11 and 12
- Matt Sherrod on "Error Message" and "My Heart Your Heart"
- Ricky Peterson on "Nishi-Hiashi"
- Luis Montalbert-Smith and Tim Palmer on "Blink"
- Other musicians
- Hideyuki Terachi – pre-production programming
- Nard Berings – electronic treatment on tracks 1, 3, 7 and 12, programming on "Aishi-Aisare"
- Matt Sherrod – electronic treatment on "Nishi Shigashi", programming
- Lou Pomanti – electronic treatment on "Blink"
- Jean Marie Horvat – heartbeat on "My Heart Your Heart"
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Technical personnel
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
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