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Sami Yaffa To Release His First Solo Album

Written by Johnson Stephen on June 2, 2021

sami yaffa new lp Sami Yaffa, best known for his work with New York Dolls, Michael Monroe Band and Hanoi Rocks has announced that the release of his first solo album ‘The Innermost Journey To Your Outermost Mind’ will be out on September 22nd, 2021 via Livewire/Cargo Records.

Sami Yaffa had this to say ”The idea for the solo album started to take shape a few years back. Previously I had written music for the New York Dolls and the Michael Monroe Band, but, now some of the songs that I was writing and had written, started to sound more and more like my own stuff, instead, of what I would write for those bands and they ended up on the album.”

Even though it’s a solo record, Sami has always been a member of bands and because of that, a team player. Yaffa mentions a couple of names without whom the record would not have come to completion – at least the way it finally became.

sami yaffa new single The first to mention is a childhood friend, drummer Janne Haavisto, with whom Sami made his first forays into the world of music. Sami and Janne created the basic tracks together and invited valued friends and musicians to collaborate on the album, such as Rich Jones, the guitarist from the Michael Monroe band, who helped pull together a lot of the songs lyrically. Christian Martucci from the band Stone Sour played guitar on half of the album, the other half was played by another old friend Rane from the band Smack and Sami’s old bro from the Hanoi days, Timo Kaltio.