Kiss My Axe

Kiss My Axe
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1991
RecordedMay 1991
StudioPlatinum Post Studios (Winter Park, Florida)
GenreJazz fusion
Length65:01
LabelTomato
ProducerAl Di Meola
Al Di Meola chronology
Tirami Su
(1987)
Kiss My Axe
(1991)
World Sinfonia
(1991)
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Kiss My Axe is an album by jazz guitarist Al Di Meola that was released in 1991. It is a jazz fusion album, with significant world music influences. Like its predecessor, Tirami Su (1987), it is credited to "The Al Di Meola Project", although the two albums have an almost entirely different set of backing musicians.

The album's title is a play on words on the phrase "kiss my ass", with "axe" as a common nickname for an electric guitar. Di Meola chose the title in part because of his frustration with the music industry of the time, which he felt rewarded "elevator muzak" over more adventurous music.