New Music Update. Episode 24 of Live from the InSync Asylum!
Welcome to Episode 24 of my podcast. Let me take you on a tour of over 40 years of words and music, Live from the InSync Asylum. Featuring rare and unreleased music as well as live performances. This episode features tracks from the collection Trip Note: 1978-2018 as well as tracks from Potshots From Over the Hill. Check it out.
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Teach My Heart (Stripped Mix). Taken from the album Trip Note 1978-2018 Vol. 4. One of my favorites from Blue Tattoo, stripped down. Also found video of me recording the guitar track early 2018 I think. I hope you like it. #NewSong #OldSong #NewMusic #NewMusicFriday #paulkitchen #teachmyheart #tripnote https://bit.ly/3xBMG92
The idea of a career retrospective started to take shape with the transfer of my 8 track tapes to Cubase in the fall of 2014. By archiving and getting some of that stuff into my computer, I was able to discover some things I didn’t know I had, remix others and add to some. As the next few years wore on, and with the start of my Podcast ‘Live From the inSync Asylum’, Trip Note: 1978-2018 started to come into focus. So here we are 7 years later, and Trip Note is done and released. It’s now 4 double albums featuring 66 songs and over 5 hours of music, nearly all of which have never been released before, or heard in the versions on the albums.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realize that even I was in my prime at one time. And in this collections 40-year-span, 1980-1995 was a particularly productive stretch, and largely unavailable until the release of Trip Note.
I drew upon all the media I have access to – half-inch and quarter-inch Reel-to-Reel tapes, Dat Tapes, Cassette Tapes, Old Mixes and backups on CD and Disc Drives. The challenge was trying to find a reasonably consistent sound quality. Anything that could be remixed, was. The original recordings were of all kinds of quality, including pretty bad quality! But as they say – it is was it is. I know this collection is really for me – If I want to hear something old – it will now be easier to find and with a consistent high quality sound. The first few years of my recordings were done using a pretty primitive setup. I had a cassette deck, a mic, some cables and some kind of splitter box from Radio Shack. I then started borrowing cassette decks from my friends, and bouncing tracks back and forth between them. The noise builds up with that method, but I got some music out of it. It would be years later before I actually had a reverb unit, but the earliest recordings use my old Fender Twin Reverb amp or an old Traynor PA mixer head for reverb. I guess my original monitoring situation was my stereo at the time or headphones –don’t remember. Not sure when direct recording started – probably when I got a Tascam 4 Track and a Teac Mixer. That later became an 8 Track Tascam 38, and an 18 channel Ramsa mixer.
My use of computers and sequencers started in the early 90’s, when my friend and keyboard player Doug Ortega lent me an old IBM DOS machine to run early versions of Cakewalk. That led to SMTPE time code and syncing the PC to 8 track. I think it was 98/99 when I switched to Logic Audio and recording audio to disc for the first time. It’s been that way ever since…
Hard to Let Go (Stripped Mix). Taken from the album Trip Note 1978-2018 Vol. 4. This one hits home. I hope you like it. #NewSong #OldSong #NewMusic #NewMusicFriday #paulkitchen #hardtoletgo #tripnote https://bit.ly/3xBMG92
My new album Trip Note: 1978-2018 Vol. 4 is out today. Volume 4 Starts where Volume 3 left off, focusing on the albums ‘And We Dream‘, ‘A Matter of Time‘, ‘Living with Fiction‘ and ‘Blue Tattoo‘. Trip Note ended up taking me 7 years to curate, and 40 years to record. The four-album set features 66 tracks and over 5 hours of unreleased music. I think there is some good stuff in there, and hope you check it out. https://bit.ly/3xBMG92
Trailer for the new Paul Kitchen | Trip Note: 1978-2018 Vol. 4 album. https://bit.ly/3xBMG92 Available everywhere 8/14/21. #NewMusic #NewMusicFriday #paulkitchen #tripnote #NewAlbum
Paul Kitchen | Sign of the Times (Acoustic) was recorded in 2007 and first appeared on the album ‘And We Dream’ in 1993. I could have written it yesterday – clearly about finding the truth somewhere ‘in between the lines’. At the time I had the intent to record my first all acoustic album, and for the first time ever had learned to play a handful of my songs. Several of those recordings are showing up for the first time now. Taken from the upcoming album Trip Note 1978-2018 Vol. 4. #NewSong#OldSong#NewMusic#NewMusicFriday#paulkitchen#acoustic#soloacoustic#taylorguitars#tripnote#signofthetimes#inbetweenthelineshttp://bit.ly/2VHi9W5
My new double album Trip Note: 1978-2018 Vol. 3 is streaming now on my Bandcamp site and everywhere else tomorrow – and under a Buck Moon at that. Volume 3 starts where Volume 2 ended, focusing on the second half of the 1980’s and the unreleased albums ‘Inner Dialogues‘, ‘Vital Sines‘, ‘No Poetry Allowed‘ and ‘In a Blue Night‘ plus some unreleased music from the ‘Lost in Babylon‘ album.. I’ve spent the past seven years going thru the archives, trying to find the best sounding versions of 40 years of music. Trip Note is a four-album set featuring over 60 songs and nearly 5 hours of music. I hope you check it out. https://bit.ly/36LOaSZ
New Music Update. Episode 23 of Live from the InSync Asylum!
Welcome to Episode 23 of my podcast. Let me take you on a tour of over 40 years of words and music, Live from the InSync Asylum. Featuring rare and unreleased music as well as live performances. This episode features a new track from the upcoming album Trip Note: 1978-2018 Vol. 3 as well as tracks from Trip Note: 1978-2018 Vol. 2, Potshots From Over the Hill, and Magic Moon. Check it out…
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Paul Kitchen | I Talk To Jesus (Acoustic) was recorded July 20, 2007. At the time I had the intent to record my first all acoustic album, and for the first time ever had learned to play a handful of my songs (that’s another story) on acoustic. Well that idea never came to fruition, and I didn’t play or film any performances again until Covid in 2020. I have a complex relationship with this song, and have never thought it was a religious song. I’d like to know your thoughts. Taken from the upcoming album Trip Note 1978-2018 Vol. 3. #NewSong #OldSong #NewMusic #NewMusicFriday #paulkitchen #acoustic #soloacoustic #taylorguitars #tripnote #italktojesus #jesus http://bit.ly/2VHi9W5
. Taken from the album Trip Note 1978-2018 Vol. 4. One of my favorites from Blue Tattoo, stripped down. Also found video of me recording the guitar track early 2018 I ... )
. Taken from the album Trip Note 1978-2018 Vol. 4. This one hits home. I hope you like it. #NewSong #OldSong #NewMusic #NewMusicFriday #paulkitchen #hardtoletgo #tripnote ... )
 was recorded in 2007 and first appeared on the album 'And We Dream' in 1993. I could have written it yesterday - clearly about finding the truth somewhere ... )
 was recorded July 20, 2007. At the time I had the intent to record my first all acoustic album, and for the first time ever had learned to play a handful of ... )
