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UFO Keyboardist Releases New PAUL RAYMOND PROJECT Album

September 5, 2008

UFO keyboardist Paul Raymond has just released a new rock album under the PAUL RAYMOND PROJECT banner. Entitled "Virtual Insanity", it features the following track listing:

01. Edge of Sanity
02. Exorcise the Demon
03. Bad Hair Day
04. Michael Caine
05. The Rest Is History
06. A Debt of Gratitude
07. Where's My Bike?
08. Shangri-La
09. Don't Hide Your Love Away
10. No Turning Back
11. Too Late For Love
12. Edge of Sanity (Reprise)

Check out audio samples at this location.

In a recent interview with Get Ready To Roll!, Raymond stated about the album, "It has taken us two years. Andy Simmons and I did all of it. My son Alex was invited to play drums, but he listened to a couple of songs (neither of which made the cut in the end) and opted out! I think he was hoping it would be more thrash metal so he could play a drum solo through everything. He's now aspiring to be a lead guitarist, but I've already got one of those! It's not the kind of material I would put forward as demos for a UFO album. These solo projects give me the opportunity to branch out and experiment with different sounds and styles, but it's still very much a rock album."

He added, "Andy is a great talent. He’s not only a terrific lead guitarist, but he also plays keyboards, he’s a commercial artist and an electronics engineer. In his spare time he's a really great golfer. As far as writing is concerned, we mainly work independently. Andy will create a track and give it to me to dream up a vocal or I'll write a song and he'll come in and put a guitar solo on it — sometimes in one take as in 'Bad Hair Day' and 'Too Late For Love' or, with the Andy Fraser song and 'Shangri-La', he'll take it away and work on it. I have to say, I'm always impressed with what he comes up with, like with 'Edge of Sanity (Reprise)' it gave me chills. I thought, 'How the hell did he think of that?'"

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