We did a songwriting session with GORO and we came up with a lot of great ideas. With this set of songs, we wanted to capture the feeling of the ocean, looking at the water horizon, and pay our tribute & respect to it.
Kazuki Isogai
THE RELEASE
Feb 14th - "Promise"
Mar 6th - Seawater EP
Renowned Japanese guitarist Kazuki Isogai returns to Stereofox for his 9th release, this time in collaboration with GORO KUMAI – an outstanding MPC player, DJ & beatmaker.
Seawater EP is a collection of 5 songs, paying tribute to the ocean – for all its beauty & danger, for giving us life but also being the powerful element it is.
Kazuki’s music always has a delightful jazz touch, thanks to his guitars but in Seawater EP it takes a more boom-bap turn, courtesy of GORO’s raw, old-school beatmaking & sampling – especially found in the single “A Quiet Storm”, and in “Vida” & “Choose You”.
THE ARTIST
Kazuki Isogai
Kazuki Isogai is a renowned Japanese neo-soul guitarist with more than 400k followers on Instagram and YouTube and 40M streams across DSPs. He’s also the guitarist for Japanese pop star Kaela Kimura & MC-producer duo Def Tech.
- Kazuki Isogai is a guitarist for Japanese pop star Kaela Kimura (500k on IG) & MC-producer duo Def Tech (323k followers on Spotify)
- Featured on Spotify editorials like lofi beats, Road Trip to Tokyo, Smooth Jazz Beats, and Shimmer
- Featured on Apple Music's BEATstrumentals, Lo-Fi Jazz, Jazz Scene: Japan, Lo-Fi Japan, etc.
- Featured on Deezer's Lofi Japan, snooze lofi, etc.
- Radio support on BBC Radio 6 (Focus Beats show) and SBS Australia Top 100 Chill Tracks of 2021
- Appeared on the cover of D’Angelico New York guitar magazine
- Collaborated with edbl, Osamu Fukuzawa, GORO KUMAI, Otis Ubaka, Casiio & more
- 300K+ followers on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok
- Featured on TIDAL's LoFi Dreaming editorial
GORO KUMAI
GORO KUMAI is a versatile artist - an MPC player, beatmaker, and DJ. He's known for touring with Def Tech (together with Kazuki Isogai) & the renowned Japanese rapper KREVA. He is also the winner of the 2011 GOLDFINGER'S KITCHEN BEATCROSS MPC battle.
- DMC Champion, DJ, beatmaker & MPC teacher
- Touring/working with legendary acts like Def Tech, KREVA, Emi
- Collaborations with Kazuki Isogai
- Added to Apple's BEATstrumentals, Lo-Fi Jazz, Jazz Scene: Japan, Lo-Fi Japan, etc.
- Featured on Spotify's Road Trip To Tokyo
