AllOutGuitar.com recently caught up with WINGER frontman Kip Winger to discuss his new solo album, From The Moon To The Sun, which is due out May 9th via Frontiers. The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Q: How does recording with (guitarists) Andy Timmons and Reb Beach differ and who is the least obedient?

Kip: "It's interesting, they are both extremely intuitive. Winger vs Kip Winger solo are two different animals. The Winger music is based largely off Reb's riffs, and the solo music isn't really rock music. But the approach is similar in that we try to do what is right for the song. With Reb, we used a Marshal JMP with a Mesa Boogie cabinet (which is in my studio), Reb normally uses Sur amps. I mic the Marshall with a SM57 into a Neve pre. With Andy, the main sound is through a Vox AC30 mic with a SM57 and a Royer R 121 into a Neve pre. It's always a pleasure to work with musicians of that caliber, I usually just press record and let them go for four or five passes, then we zero in on the most special bits and go from there. Obedient? That's hysterical. Well, Reb drinks more beer..."

Q: The Middle Eastern influences are recurrent on the album, are your musical and political tastes directly reflected in this?

Kip: "Only musical and it is interesting that politically it has relevance. It started when I visited Egypt in late 1996. 'Free' was the first thing I wrote with that modality. Cenk is a master at it, having gone to the conservatory of music in Ankara. It's not just harmonic minor, much of it is based on the folk music of the middle east. Very interesting music."

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Tracklisting of the European edition of From The Moon To The Sun will include (click track for sample): '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).