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This unofficial website is a dedication and Tribute site to Kip Winger for his amazing music and endless effort to go above and beyond what anyone would ever believe possible from an artist.  His music has a way of reaching depths within you that you probably don't even realize exist.  His talent far exceeds anything I could put to words so I will leave it to you to experience the magic of his music.  He is definitely a music man, born to make music.  We all have a calling in life, and he seems to have found his.  He is by far my favorite artist, whose music inspires me like no other.  

Thank you Kip for sharing your gift, your art, your heart and soul through music.

Here, you will find Kip's own Biography, Discography with all the various projects he has done, Interviews, Tour Info and Photos.  

Please visit his Official Page at http://www.kipwinger.com/ 

and his MySpace Page at http://www.myspace.com/kipwingermusic

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    My Review of From the Moon to the Sun

Frontiers Records is proud to announce the European release of the brand new KIP WINGER album entitled “From the Moon To The Sun” on May 9th 2008.

Eight years after the release of the acclaimed “Songs From the Ocean Floor”, a record which was labelled as “Masterpiece” by several music critics around the work and a successful reunion of the band Winger, Kip Winger returns with a true career defining statement and, once again, another cd which witnesses the creative evolution of the American composer.

“I am an artist that will continue to push the envelope into the direction that my ear and abilities are taking me, with no compromise”, says Kip, adding “I worked hard to make this record my best yet. For sure it is musically very diverse… Hence the title , "From the Moon to the Sun".

The music offered on the record is truly a flow that has no boundaries, from the fresh rock approach of songs like “Every Story Told”, “Nothing” or “Reason To Believe”, to the Pop sensibilities of “Where Will You Go” and “California”, to the acoustic mood of “Pages and Pages” and “In Your Eyes Another Life”, down to the unbelievable instrumental piece “Ghosts”, “From the Moon to the Sun” brings the listener to a journey in a kaleidoscope of different moods.

The album sees also musical contributions from Rod Morgenstein and Ken Mary on drums, Andy Timmons and Rob Eberhard Young on guitar, Alan Pasqua on piano, Cenk Eroglu on songwriting, keyboards and guitars.

Tracklisting of the European edition of “From the Moon To The Sun” will include:

Every Story Told; Nothing; Where Will You Go; Pages and Pages; Ghosts; In Your Eyes Another Life; Runaway; California; What We Are; One Big Game; Why; Reason To Believe; Monster (exclusive Bonus Track for Europe, a newly recorded version of the song originally included on “Thisconversationseemslikeadream”).

Don’t miss the meeting with this true modern art masterpiece on May 9th 2008.

Official Website: http://www.kipwinger.com 

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About the songs from Kip himself

1. Every story Told.

Every Story Told was written in Constantinople with Cenk Eroglu. We had worked on 10-12 songs during that time. It was originally an acoustic riff, very organic sounding. Then in the studio we started messing around with it and Cenk started adding all these samples and when we started listening to the combination of samples against the guitars, the direction of the song emerged by itself. I kind of had some melody ideas from the first bits and pieces we had written and the lyrics just emerged as we were writing. I would write lyrics over at the couch while Cenk would be working out production, samples and bits and pieces for the song. Sooner or later the whole thing begun to come together. The lyric idea is from a yoga instructor that mentioned to me one day that “even though you can’t do everything, you can be everything…”

2. Nothing.

The song started as a song named Killing Way and it was one of the first songs I actually wrote with Cenk. He had the track and it was basically finished, so we had to write the words. So, we wrote the words to killing Way and later we ended up deciding to rewrite the song and start with the acoustic riff you hear at the beginning of the song which is now the song Nothing. I had this idea “ain’t no soul in the priest, ain’t no mark on the beast, ain’t no evil in the killer, ain’t no love in the saint” and this whole contradictory theme about not believing in much that I see going around me in the world. That was really the basis on wanting to rewrite the song Killing Way because this was a more striking, passionate lyric from my point of view. But along with that went the idea that we realized it’s a bigger idea than Killing Way and it’s going to be much more difficult to portrait the landscape of this idea. So, we recorded many different versions and takes of different instruments and finally we stumbled across the version which is now the song Nothing.

3. Where Will You Go.

This came to me very late one night, while I was recording a piano part for another song. I stumbled across the piano progression for the beginning of that song and it struck a chord emotionally with me. Immediately I played around with that chord progression for a while until I could get it to go around then around the way it dïes. The first line of the song “Tears are running through your make up” came immediately and I kind of followed the train of thought from there. It’s kind of a moment in a relationship that I’m sure everybody can relate to.


4. Pages and Pages.

Came along probably around 2005. I knew I needed some more material so I actually had the intention of writing some new stuff and I sat down and the original piano part just fell into my hands just right down from the sky. I didn’t even try to write it. So did the first line of the song “Write down the words you keep written on the wall”, that kind of fell into my head and I knew I had a tune right there although it took quite a while to work all the details. It was challenging trying to portrait this introspective landscape that’s inhering with the lyrics. So, I spent quite a while on that and the way it worked with the record was to put it before Ghosts so that the long trance like outro would open up the consciousness of the listener to prepare them for the upcoming classical piece.

5. Ghosts.

Ghosts is a piece for string orchestra, piano and harp.  This version of it was recorded in Austin with seven players and there is another version of it with two more movements for string orchestra, piano and harp.  It’s about eighteen minutes in its entirety and I will record that a little bit later this year.

6. In Your Eyes Another Life.

This was a track that Cenk had written some years back on a project he was working on with Pat Mastelado. It never got used and I asked Cenk if I could write lyrics over it. I had had a vision of searching for my wife Paula through lifetime after lifetime and when I met her I recognized her eyes. I wanted to write about that in a song. It has a very spiritual undertone and I wanted it to be something of a spiritual nature.


7. Runaway.

This is a story about a girl that I know, actually it’s about her past. I found a lot of inspiration writing about the story she told me, about when she was a young girl. I had the guitar riff for years, I’ve been playing that thing for ever and I was actually in New York City when I was staying at a friend’s apartment. I stayed up late one night and basically wrote the whole song. It’s very uplifting, it comes up right after In Your Eyes Another Life and kind of lifts the rest of the record into the second half.

8. California.

California was one of the songs on the record that was written with Ken Rose, a friend of mine who is from California but he lives in England. We’ve written quite a few songs over the years and his song was not intended for my record but when I was pouring over some of the material I’d written over the past few years, I thought, man I’d like to try this one. I spent a lot of time on the vocal of this song trying to portrait the lyric in a way that didn’t take away from the song. It turned out to be a fairly clean vocal sound for this, which I think compliments the song very well. For me it is reminiscent of This Conversation Seems Like A Dream, with Alan Pasco on piano and Andy Timmons on guitar, trading off solos and the percussion brigade that I always have on my records. So for me it is kind of a bridge back to This Conversation Seems Like A Dream.

9. What We Are.

What we are is another song written with Ken Rose. We were down at the studio I used to have in Nashville. It was like an open space, loft studio where everything was in one room and I was on piano and he was on guitar and suddenly we fell upon this Beatle-ish jam. It took us about 2 days to finish it and it’s been sitting in my rig for a couple of years before I went back to it and finished it. I’m happy with it, I went ahead and took the Beatles influence all the way to panning the drums all the way to the right side, just letting it be what it is. It’s a song about the fact that we are what we are and what we talk about and thoughts are things and we can change the world with what we think.


10. One Big Game.

One Big Game was actually written in Santa Fe. I got a call form a friend of mine named Dominique Frontire, who is a film composer and needed a tune for a movie he was scoring, so I read the script and wrote the song One Big Game. The movie never got made actually, so I had the song in my hands. Later I finished it in Nashville. The song is about how life can continually play tricks on you and challenge your perception of reality.

11. Why.

In my opinion, Why is one of the most important songs on the record. When I first got together with Cenk in Constantinople, he had the verses of this song and when we started working on it I wrote the chorus chords and we were really excited in putting this song together. It was one of the first songs we wrote but it ended up taking longer than most of the other songs. We both recognized it was a very important song so we took great care in finishing the way the music production was handled and the lyrics.

It’s a lot of tracks, there is a hundred and ten (110) background vocal tracks on that song. It was very difficult to manage how to make all work and not just sound like white noise. The lyrics are among my favorites in the album and actually this is one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written. It’s very difficult to write a song like Why and not come off sounding preachy. I like the message of what it says. I kind of fell upon it by accident and any song writer will tell you that the best songs they’ve ever written where the ones that came by accident.


12. Reason To Believe.

This is a song I wrote with Cenk as well in Constaninople and it is also out on the Excarnation album (Cenk Eroglu’s band) except that on this one there are different players and a little bit different production. For me it was a great song to end the record with. Lyrically it is on a really high note and it ties the production together from the beginning of the record to the end of the record.

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