MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (October 12, 2022) — Tony Mitchell’s Kiss of the Gypsy album – “Unfinished Business” is now available on MR Records. The album was released worldwide on CD & Japanese import with bonus tracks. It can be purchased from MR Records www.mrrecords.com.au. It can also be purchased from HMV, Amazon & all good record outlets. Vinyl will be released on November 24th.
The album can be streamed or purchased at https://lnk.to/Kot
What started off as possible bonus tracks for Tony Mitchell’s forthcoming solo album,
quickly turned into a full blown, long awaited “Kiss of the Gypsy” album. 2022 is the 30th anniversary of the KOTG debut album & Mitchell was to include bonus tracks on his new album that he had written as KOTG to include for a special edition release later this year on MR Records.
All that changed when Mitchell was writing the songs & more ideas started to develop.
“Over the years since we split, I was offered numerous major record deals to record a new KOTG album, but I always refused to do it as I didn’t think it would be right to do it without the rest of the original band members, but I guess now is the time”.
“Even though KOTG was only a small part of my journey, I was & still am very grateful to all the fans that supported us & continue to support my work”.
“As it is the 30th anniversary, I thought the time was now right & I would write a brand new KOTG album rather than just bonus tracks for the solo album & so went head on into prioritizing this”.
“I went back to using my old recording techniques with these outstanding musicians &
friends”.
“As I was writing & recording the tracks, they took a life of their own & merited their own
album release”.
“The ideas just flew out & I was so happy with the results. They seem to have a modern
twist on the KOTG style & there are even a couple of tracks that were written based around old riffs & ideas that I am writing from home in 1992 that I just recently discovered in an old suitcase on cassette tapes”.
“As it stands, this is a kick ass 30th anniversary celebration album as a thank you to all the fans but who knows? If there is an appetite for future Mitchell’s Kiss of the Gypsy albums … let’s see what happens” …
THE BAND
TONY MITCHELL – Lead Vocals/Guitars/Keyboards
PAUL HUME – Lead Guitars/Backing Vocals
NIGEL CLUTTERBUCK – Bass Guitars/Backing Vocals
NEIL OGDEN – Drums/Backing Vocals
DARREL TREECE – BIRCH – Hammond/Keyboards/Piano
Additional Musicians:
David Hinds – Slide Guitar on Sin City Blues & Remedy
(courtesy of The Bounty Hunters)
Stephen Walmsley – Harmonica on Sin City Blues
Rogues Gallery Rock Choir – Backing Vocals
All songs written & composed by Tony Mitchell
Produced & Mastered by Tony Mitchell
Recorded at XGypsy Studios
Drum recording engineering by Matt Cooke
Synkronize Music Group Studios
Sun Street Studios
MR Records Production 2022
Artwork by Nello Dell’Omo
Inner briefcase photo by Joanna Reeves & Stephen Walmsley
Briefcase photo model – Joanna Reeves
Additional band photos by Sean Larkin
MITCHELL’S KISS OF THE GYPSY – UNFINISHED BUSINESS ALBUM TRACK LISTING01. EYE OF THE HURRICANE – 3.57
02. DUTY TO PARTY – 4.04
03. RUNAWAYS – 3.44
04. TOO MUCH LOVE – 4.46
05. REMEDY – 3.45
06. TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS – 3.30
07. FOOLIN’ – 4.23
08. SIN CITY BLUES – 4.00
09. TIME TO HEAL – 5.47
10. WILD HORSES – 5.06
All songs written & composed by Tony Mitchell © 2022
About
TONY MITCHELL is best known as being the singer songwriter & fronting the 90s classic rock band “Kiss of the Gypsy” signed to Atlantic Records USA & Warner Chappell. They toured the UK & states with their debut album & high energy live shows to great acclaim.
Songs such as “Whatever it Takes”, “Take This Old Heart”. “From The Dirt” & “No Prize For the Loser” are still melodic rock classics to this day.
Mitchell has sang for “RICK WAKEMAN” on the album “Return to the centre of the earth” with “OZZY OSBOURNE”, “TREVOR RABIN”etc. Sang & played guitar for “ALICE COOPER”, “JON ANDERSON”, “ALAN PARSONS PROJECT”, “TONY HADLEY” & “IT BITES” on the British Rock Symphony South American tour 2000 & singer/guitarist/songwriter for “STEALERS WHEEL”.
He has spent years writing & recording for various bands, artists, TV & media, also releasing albums with “KINGDOM OF DEADMEN”, “BONEYARD ZOMBIES” & “PUPPETMASTER”& early solo albums.
Mitchell was also the singer songwriter for Melodic Rock/AOR band “DIRTY WHITE BOYZ” with their 2016 album release, “Down & Dirty” including the singles “All in the Name of Rock n Roll”, Hanging on a Heartache, “Ride With Angels” & “Dynamite”.
In 2018, Mitchell released his solo album “Beggars Gold” to rave reviews with dynamic tracks such as “Playing With Fire”, “What You Make It”(featuring Dante Fox’s Sue Willetts), “Take a Look at me Now”, “Never Say Die” & the poignant “Beggars Gold”.
2020 saw Mitchell release his most successful album to date, “Church of a Restless Soul” that featured the duet with Danny Vaughn, “Mighty Fall”, the uplifting “Living on the run, the heart wrenching “I Believe in Angels” & the ever catchy “Electric” to great acclaim.
2021, just one year on, Tony Mitchell released his third solo album, “Hot Endless Summer Nights” which predominately had an 80’s retrowave flavor, based on the experiences he had in the USA in the late 80’s featuring the feel good “Hot Endless Summer Nights”, the self biographical “Blame it on the Rock n Roll”, ultra dynamic ballad “Strong Enough”, the road anthem “Leave the World Behind” to the futuristic “Neon Sky”
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