''Connetta'' is the second studio album of Japanese singer and actress

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on the Avex Trax label. It is the first album released from the "Join" project of Suzuki, that consisted of collaborations with different artists and different genres.

Background

''Connetta'' was first album from the "Join" project of Suzuki, which consisted of collaborations with different artists and different musical genres. However, the first singles released were not originally part of the "Join" project, since this idea originally started at the beginning of 2007. Short time after the release of the first Avex album, '' Around The World'', Suzuki introduced her then new song Fantastic at the encore of her 2005 live tour. The song was later released as a single in February 2006. "Crystal" and "To Be Free" were included in the Christmas single ''Little Crystal'' released in December 2005. The subsequent singles released in 2006, "Alright!" and " Like a Love?", were released as solo singles as well, though the later became noticed by the media mainly because it was the first musical composition made by

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for another artist besides herself. The first proper "Join" singles were " O.K. Funky God", " Peace Otodoke!!" and " Sore mo Kitto Shiawase", which were released between February 27 and March 14, 2007. For the different collaborations Suzuki worked for the first time in her career with

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(Hideki Kaji, Ayano Tsuji),

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(Scoobie Do, Northern Bright) and

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(Buffalo Daughter) artists, making this album the most risky in terms of music, as ''Connetta'' went a little farther from the regular J-Pop genre she used to sing through all her career.

Track listing

Singles

Charts

Short drama: Join

The "Join" project was not only related to music. A short story entitled "Join" was also made, written and directed by

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, and starring Suzuki and

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. Each one of the three "Join" CD singles "O.K. Funky God", "Peace Otodoke!!" and "Sore mo Kitto Shiawase" included the narration drama tracks "7 Days Before", "The Days Before" and "The Days After", which served as preludes for the 30-minute short film which was later included in the bonus DVD of the album (in the A Type version). The short film tells the story of an

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student (Ami) who is worried because she has not inspiration for drawing a new painting. Her classmate (Kōji, played by Onoue) invites her to help painting a mural for a senpai, and once she gets there and starts helping something begins to change within her. Some of the musicians that collaborated in the ''Connetta'' album made cameo appearances in the short film, like the members of THC!!, MoOog Yamamoto from Buffalo Daughter, and Hitoshi Arai from Northern Bright. Arai even performed an acoustic version of "Everything To Me" in a scene.

Credits

*Ami Suzuki - Ami *Hiroyuki Onoue： - Kōji *Keisuke Horibe - Kamiki *Ryu Morioka - Ryu *

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- Yukako *Narumi Konno - Haruka *Kaohiko Kaoda - Yamadera *Shiho Harumi - Kobayatsu

Personnel

*Director, Script:

*Photography: Atsushi Fukumoto *Illumination: Tokumitsu Ichikawa *Art: Ryuji Noguchi *Audio Recording: Takenori Misawa *Stylist: Mie Egashira *Hair & Make-up: Yuki Asano *Assistant director: Kaoru Ogino *Production Chief: Yuya Satoyoshi *Line Producer: Hijiri Taguchi *Associate Producer: Shinsuke Higuchi {{Authority control 2007 albums Ami Suzuki albums Avex Group albums