Artist:		Hotei Tomoyasu
Title:		Guitarhythm II
Production Co:  Toshiba-EMI
Cat#:		TOCT-6280, TOCT-6281
Release:	91/9/27
Price:		5000yen
Length:		disc 1:  52'32" (12 Tracks)
		disc 2:  53'21" (12 Tracks)
Track Data:  (2 (5") disc album)
disc1	 1  Guitarhythm Reprise			1'15"
	 2  Beat Emotion			4'55"
	 3  Prisoner				4'38"
	 4  Slow Motion				5'37"
	 5  Sphinx				4'15"
	 6  Mermaid's Dream			3'22"
	 7  Paradise				6'10"
	 8  Devil's Sugar			4'37"
	 9  Drivin' to Your Heart Tonight	4'15"
	10  Angel Waltz				3'29"
	11  You					6'13"
	12  Guitar Loves You			3'24"
disc2	 1  Rock 'n' Rose			5'13"
	 2  Man + Woman in Love			4'24"
	 3  Libodo				4'48"
	 4  Fly Into Your Dream			6'00"
	 5  Wonderland				3'58"
	 6  Metropolis				3'41"
	 7  Merry-Go-Round			3'55"
	 8  Telephone Call			3'42"
	 9  Radio! Radio! Radio!		3'58"
	10  Not For Sale			4'27"
	11  City Lights				3'35"
	12  Starman				5'20"
Goodies:        Velvet box with "3D" spherical representation of
        Hotei's trademark guitar pattern.  56 page "Visual Booklet"
        listing songs w/artwork for each title.

Comments:       Wow!  Hotei Tomoyasu definitely "redeemed" himself with
        his second solo effort.  In my own opinion, the original
        "Guitarhythm" was a disappointment, the songs being mediocre
        at best.  "GII" gives the listener over 100 minutes of music
        bringing together a mix of sounds from Hotei's BO0WY, COMPLEX,
        and solo efforts.
                The songs range from, dreamy sounds in "Mermaid's Dream",
        pop tunes with "You", hard rock in "Devil's Sugar", peaceful
        guitar medleys in "Paradise", but driving in "Sphinx".  And
        that's only in the first disc!  The second offers Rock & Roll,
        pop-rock, orchestration(!), upbeat rock-guitar tunes, and
        ends with a cover of David Bowie's "Starman".
                Hotei does his own singing in all the songs.  He fares
        decently in several tunes, sometimes does horrendously as in
        "Fly Into Your Dream", you just want to cringe.  But he 'can
        be forgiven' as it was never his voice that made him famous.

        This is what the original "Guitarhythm" should've been!

"Starfilled eyes with a heart of golden sun can make this metal bird fly.
 I could ride on a red hot shooting star just to have you here.
 GUITARHYTHM never gonna stop!"
                                        --Guitarhythm Reprise

(Galen Komatsu: gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu, ar592@cleveland.freenet.edu)
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Artist:         Hotei Tomoyasu
Title:          Guitarhythm III
Production Co:  Toshiba-EMI
Cat#:           TOCT-6658
Release:        ?/?/92
Price:          3000 yen
Length:         (14 tracks)
Track Data: 5" album
         1  Milk Bar P.M. 11:00                         2'45"
         2  Upside-Down                                 3'37"
         3  Dirty Star                                  5'28"
         4  Sayonara Andy Warhol                        4'40"
         5  Diving With My Car (Red Zone Version)       4'53"
         6  Precious Deal                               4'32"
         7  Emergency                                   5'12"
         8  Electric Warriors                           4'52"
         9  Guilty                                      5'57"
        10  I'm Free                                    5'32"
        11  Lonely*Wild (Upper Version)                 5'33"
        12  Wild Love                                   5'19"
        13  Milk Bar A.M 3:00                           1'13"
        14  Guitarhythm (Music Box)                       50"
Goodies:        <none>

Comments:       If you liked Guitarhythm II, then you'll definitely
        like this one too.  Hotei further refines his personal
        rock 'n roll sound with this album.

(Galen Komatsu: gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu  ar592@cleveland.freenet.edu)
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