{"id":15518,"date":"2021-06-27T21:11:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=15518"},"modified":"2021-06-27T21:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:11:53","slug":"all-star-aor-project-featuring-toto-singer-joseph-williams-with-former-chicago-singer-bill-champlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2021\/06\/27\/all-star-aor-project-featuring-toto-singer-joseph-williams-with-former-chicago-singer-bill-champlin\/","title":{"rendered":"All Star AOR project featuring TOTO singer Joseph Williams with former Chicago singer Bill Champlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TOTO singer Joseph Williams teams up with former Chicago singer Bill Champlin and Swedish guitarist\/Producer Peter Friestedt for a new remarkable AOR release following the success with the &#8220;Live In Concert&#8221; DVD<br>that made it all the way to the top on the Swedish Chart! In 2012 Champlin\/Willams\/Friestedt did a sold out Scandinavian Tour and during this time the first recordings of the &#8220;CWF&#8221; album took place!<br>The new album also includes contributions from Steve Porcaro of Toto, Randy Goodrum (Toto, Chicago), Will Champlin and Tamara Champlin.<br><br>Champlin says &#8220;I&#8217;ve been involved with a project that includes me, Peter Friestedt a great guitarist and producer from Sweden, and Joseph Williams, the singer of TOTO! I was pretty knocked out by the stuff.<br>I&#8217;d almost forgotten how good it was when we did it. There are great songs and even better performances on this album, and I know you&#8217;ll love it It&#8217;s rare for me to be involved with a project and be surprised by how good it is.<br>This one will knock you out&#8221; Joseph Williams is the lead vocalist with Grammy winning US band TOTO.<br>He has been busy as a composer of film and drama scores, as a session vocalist, backing singer and can be heard in Disney&#8217;s animated feature film &#8220;The Lion King&#8221; as singing voice of the adult Simba (&#8220;Hakuna Matata&#8221; and &#8220;Can You Feel The Love Tonight&#8221;).<br><br>Guitarist, producer &amp; recording artist Peter Friestedt has released two critically acclaimed albums &#8220;LA Project&#8221; (2002) and &#8220;LA Project II&#8221; (2008) that got top reviews.<br><br>Peter has been a busy sessionplayer playin on records with David Foster and Fergie Frederiksen and touring Europe and Japan with Joseph Williams with who he also released the &#8220;Williams\/Friestedt&#8221; album that was a top 40 hit in Scandinavia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bill Champlin was the lead singer of the legendary band Chicago for more than 25 years, and is a founding member of the band Sons of Champlin.<br>Champlin has written Grammy award winning songs for Earth Wind &amp; Fire and George Benson, and worked with countless artists including Elton John, The Doobie Brothers and Steve Lukather of TOTO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TRACKLIST:<br>01. RUNAWAY<br>02. NIGHTFLY<br>03. ARIA<br>04. TWO HEARTS AT WAR<br>05. STILL AROUND<br>06. RIVERS OF FEAR<br>07. ALL THAT I WANT<br>08. AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE<br>09. CARRY ON<br>10. EVERMORE<br>BONUS TRACKS ON CD VERSION:<br>11. ARIA (2021)<br>12. RUNAWAY (LIVE)<br>13. NIGHTFLY (LIVE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pre-Order link:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/orcd.co\/blod160\">https:\/\/orcd.co\/blod160<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joseph Williams Bill Champlin Peter Friestedt - Aria Live From BLUE NOTE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WV9ps1acVUA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOTO singer Joseph Williams teams up with former Chicago singer Bill Champlin and Swedish guitarist\/Producer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[128,1701,1702,1700,487],"class_list":["post-15518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-aor","tag-bill-champlin","tag-chicago","tag-joseph-williams","tag-toto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15520,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15518\/revisions\/15520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}