After the new album from SATIN released yesterday, here’s a very special treat for fans and collectors: “A Million To One [Kiss Uncovered]“, the tribute album by SATIN entirely recorded, engineered, re-arranged and mixed by himself at ‘Satin Studio’, Oslo, Norway.The album appeared in 2006 for promotional use, not for sale.
The Satin recordings first started out when he was just playing around one day, out of boredom, as he said. The first thing he recorded was a KISS medley. Friend and musician Steinar Lindberg told him to put the medley out on the Norwegian Kiss Army Forum, because he thought it was brilliant.
He hesitated for a few weeks, being ridiculously modest about the whole thing, but he finally did it.
It turned out to be a huge success amongst the people on the forum, and this encouraged Satin to do another Kiss song, just to keep the fire burning.
The fans at the the Norwegian Kiss Army Forum asked for more, and Satin recorded “A Million To One” and “I’m A Legend Tonight”, and the people were even more impressed.
As the recordings piled up, this “A Million To One [Kiss Uncovered]” took shape.
At the same time, Satin was asked to re-record the Kiss Medley which ended up on the official Tribute release called “Gods Of Thunder – A Norwegian Tribute To Kiss” in 2005.
“A Million To One [Kiss Uncovered]” is a very well produced – above the standard – for an album destined to promotional use. And the good part of it is its uniqueness.
You know, most songs got a new arrangement, according to SATIN’s Melodic Rock heart, for example his version of “Creatures Of The Night” sounds like a Desmond Child penned song; “Hard Luck Woman” turned in to piano ballad; while “Goin’ Blind” is done with an acoustic mold with an uptempo rhythm.
A collectors item.
01 - Easy As It Seems
02 - Nowhere To Run
03 - It's Allright (Ol '45 mix)
04 - Reason To Live
05 - Mr. Speed
06 - Mr. Make Believe
07 - Creatures Of The Night
08 - Shandi
09 - Hard Luck Woman
10 - Goin' Blind
11 - A Million To One
12 - I'm Legend Tonight
13 - Gypsy
14 - Ladies Room
15 - Tears Are Falling
16 - C'mon And Love Me
17 - Hide Your Heart
18 - Kiss Medley
19 - It's Allright (punky version)
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SATIN – A Million To One [Kiss Uncovered] 2011
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