Emoto Music’s featured artist, Opus Orange, released an arrangement of Henry Mancini‘s classic Moon River featuring Kotomi. The song was featured in TuneCore‘s #NewMusicFriday blog. The song is available everywhere including iTunes, Spotify, Bandcamp, SoundCloud and Amazon or you can give it a listen below.

Kotomi: vocals
Aaron Sterling: drums
PB: baritone guitar, electric guitar, bass, Rhodes

Emoto Music worked alongside Leo Burnett Chicago, to create the new “Recalculating” spot for Marshalls‘ ‘Surprise is Waiting’ campaign, featuring Opus Orange song “Almost There” (w/ Lauren Hillman aka Kotomi).

Check out the finished product below, then see what people are saying & sound off yourself on Twitter: #surpriseiswaiting

Marshalls – “Recalculating”

Purchase “Almost There” on iTunes or Bandcamp

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Emoto composer, Lauren Hillman aka Kotomi has gone virtual in Ryan Hemsworth’s new video for “Surrounded”.  This is a must see as it was shot inside Ubisoft’s motion capture studio!

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Check out “Begin” the 4-track EP released TODAY (07.24.15) by Cyril Hahn of PMR Records!  –  Cyril Hahn “Begin”: SpotifyiTunes

Emoto’s featured artist Kotomi (aka Lauren Hillman) collaborated with Hahn for the last track on his EP release, titled “Grace”.

“I started following [Los Angeles singer] Kotomi on Soundcloud, and a few hours later she messaged me and said she liked my stuff, and said we can work together. I emailed her some instrumentals, and she picked that one. Then she went for a drive around California, around the coast, all day, recording in her car on her voice recorder. That’s pretty cool. I wish I could write music like that. She pretty much wrote it in a day and sent it back,” – Hahn said of his partnership with Kotomi in a recent interview with SPIN.

In addition to collaborating with other artists, our songstress Kotomi has been releasing a new song on the first Tuesday of every month this year! Keep up with her by following her on Facebook or Soundcloud.

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Emoto featured artist Kotomi (aka Lauren Hillman) has just premiered “Shiny”!

Week before last, her single “Swimming” was featured on Spotify’s ‘New Music Tuesday’ playlist – which changes weekly and features Spotify’s 50 new music favorites!

Kotomi has been releasing a new song on the first Tuesday of every month this year! You can keep up with her by following her on Facebook or Soundcloud.

Check out Emoto featured artist Kotomi (aka Lauren Hillman) on this week’s ‘New Music Tuesday‘ Spotify Playlist, which boasts over 715,000 followers! Her single ‘Swimming‘ is featured as track #22, amongst artists ZZ Ward, War Paint, Drake, and more.

Kotomi is releasing a new song on the first Tuesday of every month this year! The next one premiers this upcoming Tuesday, July 7th, so stay tuned!

                                                                 [Note: This playlist is updated weekly]

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Emoto featured artist Kotomi (aka Lauren Hillman) has just released “Bright Side”. The new single premiered this morning at San Francisco based music+food blog Turntable Kitchen.

Kotomi will be releasing a new song on the first Tuesday of every month this year! Listen to what she has released so far on Soundcloud and keep up with her on Facebook for news about her next release!

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Indie music taste-makers Gorilla vs Bear have just premiered the latest single “Swimming” from Emoto composer Lauren Hillman (aka Kotomi)!

Kotomi will be releasing a new song on the first Tuesday of every month this year!  Keep up with her on Facebook and stay tuned!

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Emoto featured artist Kotomi (aka Lauren Hillman) has just released “Please (Say You Never Will)”.  The new single premiered this morning at online UK music and culture magazine The 405.

Kotomi will be releasing a new song on the first Tuesday of every month this year!  Keep up with her on Facebook and stay tuned!

Check out some of our newest songs from Emoto composers and artists now available for licensing! Click the down arrow to download!

All inquiries: Lindsay Froemke – lindsay@emotomusic.com.

 

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Online UK music and culture magazine The 405 has just premiered the second single from Emoto composer Lauren Hillman (aka Kotomi) titled “Sober For The Weekend”.

Kotomi will be releasing a new single on the first Tuesday of every month this year.  Keep up with Kotomi on Facebook to hear it all first!

 

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Indie music taste-makers Gorilla vs Bear premiered a new single “The Last Time” from Emoto composer Lauren Hillman (aka Kotomi) yesterday morning.

This is the first release in a series of fresh new singles that she will release on the first Tuesday of every month this year!  Keep up with Kotomi on Facebook to make sure you don’t miss a beat!

Emoto composer and Opus Orange member Lauren Hillman aka Kotomi collaborated with Juno Award winner Ryan Hemsworth on a track for his sophomore album Alone For The First Time which will be released November 4th.  The first song from the album can be heard now on Soundcloud and has already yielded over 800k plays.

Check out the promo video for his tour, which features their track ‘Surrounded’, below.

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Learn more about Hemsworth, his tour, and Alone For The First Time at Last Gang Entertainment.

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Emoto musician/composer Kotomi aka Lauren Hillman is due to release ‘Over Our Heads’ EP, June 10th.

The 6 track EP features a pop/electronic musical base in addition to some 80’s and soul flavors.  It will be available via most online retailers as well as by ‘pay-what-you-choose’ format from her Bandcamp.com page.  Check out the track list below:

1. Beneath The Surface

2. Over Our Heads

3. Vocode You

4. Young Love

5. With You

6. Simple & Sweet