Kito Peters: News

The new CD, "Capital Dreams," is out.  For now five cuts are available for listening at http://soundcloud.com/kito6/tracks.

"Pyramid" was featured recently on two radio shows:

podcast now up from friday, july 29th
when i appeared on diego mulligan's journey home radio show on ksfr
chat, live songs, songs from the new cd "pyramid"
http://diegoradio.com/

another podcast from a show aired saturday august 7
on kunm's ear to the ground program - my part is the second half
http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kunm/local-kunm-980971.mp3

The boxes were delivered today - very exciting!

My new CD, "Pyramid," is in production at Oasis Disc Manufacturing in New Jersey.  The record should be released by the end of June.

My song "My Gulag" from "Tip My Hat" won last night in the Novelty/Humorous category at the New Mexico Music Awards.

This current CD may well be my last - but it sure would be fun to make a "Wanky and the Snow Balls" record!

"Tip My Hat" just was named a finalist in five New Mexico Music Awards categories: Best CD of the Year, Best Pop CD, Best Producer (Jono Manson and me), Best Packaging (Willy Magee, Lisa Rainbird, and me), and Best Novelty/Humorous Song ("My Gulag").  This is the sixth consecutive year one of my CDs has been a finalist for either Best Pop or Best Rock CD.  It's also the fifth time we've been a finalist for Best CD of the Year.  The award dinner will be Sunday, May 22nd in Albuquerque.

Meanwhile we're mixing the new record - working on a tight schedule since Simon Snaize (our producer) has to leave the USA in a week.

I was interviewed, and played some new songs, for Matthew Finch's Ear To The Ground show in the KUNM-FM (89.9) studio today.  The segment will air this Saturday, March 5, 2011, at 7:30 PM.

Read a great review of "Tip My Hat" at Muzikreviews:  http://www.muzikreviews.com/reviews.php?ID=1423

My new CD, "Tip My Hat," is now available through CD Baby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kitopeters8/from/muzikman

Clips for the 12 songs on "Tip My Hat" are now available under "Music" on the website.

The boxes of the new CD, "Tip My Hat,"arrived yesterday.  Exciting!

I'll be sending off "Tip My Hat" to manufacture this week after seemingly endless cycles of mastering hell.   But the record sounds great, and I'm eager to have people hear it.  Soon!

Jono Manson and I finished recording the tracks today for our upcoming CD.  We'll mix the week after next.  All live acoustic tracks embellished with stuff - no drums!

I put up on the review page here a really affirming (and discerning) review of "High Road" by Nathaniel Rolnick. 

Also, Pandora Radio now has "High Road" in play.

It's so rare these days that I hear anything I want to listen to over and over and from beginning to end.  So thanks a lot, Boz, for "Dig!"

I recently learned that "High Road" is a finalist in 8 New Mexico Music Awards categories, including Best Song (Don't Get Me Wrong), Best Producer, Best Pop CD, and Best of the Year.  We'll see what happens at the awards banquet in a month!

The first box of our new CD "High Road" arrived yesterday! The package looks great. Hopefully it sounds good, too - I'm still in burn-out from editing and mastering and can't begin to listen yet.

I've uploaded 9 of the (15) songs from "High Road" to this site at soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/kito6/tracks and would love you to listen. Thanks.

High Road was sent off to Oasis today. Finished the mastering with Dom Maita. Uploaded five songs to soundcloud - here's the first one (from which you can get to the other four if you want): http://soundcloud.com/kito6/05-dont-get-me-wrong

We've decided to go with homegrown, minimal mastering on High Road. Just seems to keep the warm, integrated, nuanced vibe better, though of course some pop gets sacrificed. The graphics are done, too, so it's off next week to Oasis for manufacture.

Our new CD, "High Road," certainly has benefited from my friendship, and sometime lyrical consultations, with the redoubtable Dexter Sandap. Thanks again, Dexter!

Is there a genre called "Wagnerian pop?"

The seemingly endless process of making "High Road" will end soon. Dom Maita of Airshow is going to master the record maybe next week. I'll be meeting with Willy Magee the following week to put the graphics together. Had a little photo shoot yesterday with Richard Baron in the deserted Santa Fe Flying Star.

Meanwhile I've put together and sent out copies of a disc containing 15 new songs (out of the 50 I've written since we started "High Road"). Imagining the opposite of "High Road" - which is spare and almost epic in scope and sound. The next one will be more creaky and acoustic and interior. If "High Road" is a film by John Ford from a Bergman script, its successor ("Burn Down The House?") will be more Woody Allen. Should be interesting.

jazzy chords
haven't recorded it yet

I Believe In You

tramping through the jungle they call your town
i watched your face while the shit went down
everyone plays solo no one’s got your back
so you hide your lonely tears from the snarling pack

i believe in you
yeah i believe in you

family is a battleground politics a war
swinging wildly we don’t notice what we’re fighting for
and you know they’ll hurt you if they get a chance
there is joy in others’ suffering at the killers’ dance

i believe in you
yeah i believe in you

i can see you struggle
but i still feel your heart
i have felt the soul shining
in you from the start

everybody needs a friend who honors what they are
if you find one loving witness that can take you far
even though destruction seems the order of the day
you could still be beautiful you could find your way

i believe in you
yeah i believe in you 2X