TONY MITCHELL – Far Away From Home (2024 Remastered / 1st time officially released) HQ *0dayrox Exclusive*
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After the welcomed remastered reissue of Kiss Of The Gypsy’s debut album we featured here a couple days ago, there’s another work by the band’s leader TONY MITCHELL you need to hear “Far Away From Home“.
In 2011, Mitchell wrote & recorded this album for the purpose of being a Kiss Of The Gypsy follow up album to their debut, as the original members reunited for 2 charity concerts. Unfortunately, it never happened.
A handful of these recordings were released as part of Mitchell’s 2018 solo album ‘Beggars Gold’ special limited edition, but now it has been remastered by Tony, and for the first time officially released – all by himself via his own record label. There’s a great energy on this raw classic hard rock record.
After 3 years of worldwide touring, outstanding reviews, airings on TV/Radio and creating a huge fan base, in 1994 Atlantic Records UK folded, and subsequently so did Kiss Of The Gypsy. Since then, singer Tony Mitchell has written for a variation of projects and sang for the likes of Alan Parsons Project, Rick Wakeman, Pat Cash and played guitar/backing vocals for Alice Cooper, Jon Anderson and Tony Hadley amongst many others.
Spending nine years writing, composing, producing and session playing, Mitchell thought it was time to finish off what he set out to do — the first of which, was to write and record a concept album he released in 2010.
Secondly, Mitchell had always thought of Kiss Of The Gypsy as unfinished business, not entirely happy with the way the debut album was created, recorded and prioritised. He wanted to write and record a new and better Kiss Of The Gypsy album 20 years on to keep a little of the style, raw energy and anthemic qualities.
The result is ”Far Away From Home”.
Mitchell decided to release it under his name when, in July 2010, he contacted all the original members of the band to see if they were interested, but all declined as they had moved into other fields of work.
Mitchell started work on new Kiss Of The Gypsy material regardless and tried to recapture the old style of recording but with today’s technical standards.
The result is a potent record, benefited by its raw, pure hard rockin’ production sound. Mitchell is proud of ‘Far Away From Home’ (almost entirely recorded by himself), which he feels is faithful to his classic rock roots and takes you on a wild ride of emotions, turning every corner at break neck speed. No Politics, no hidden agenda, no save the world… just ROCK N ROLL!
Highly Recommended
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01 – Sinner Man
02 – Insatiable
03 – I Like It Like That
04 – Far Away From Home
05 – Freakz Like Uz
06 – Walking On Deadly Ground
07 – Ride To Paradise
08 – One Blood
09 – Goin’ Down The Cathouse
10 – Live Life
11 – Maybe I’ll Get It Right This Time
12 – Dead Man Walkin’
Tony Mitchell: Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Bass, Hammond, Strings
Chris Hunt: Lead Guitar on “Sinner Man” and “One Blood”
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