Welcome to the Anonymous - Alternative Versions

Over one year on from the release of my music project Anonymous (2011), I was up late one night recently with not a lot to do.  I was looking through the numerous music folders I have.  I had always wanted to create a kind of bootleg style album, as I tend to hold on to a lot of my original versions of songs.  I like to see the development of the songs.  To see how they developed and changed over time, and what I eventually settled with. 

I think I get this mentality from growing up listening to Radiohead.  I was always able to source some kind of raw, rare version of a song before it was released.  Then I would hear the album version and it would be totally different from the rare versions I'd heard previously.  I always liked this.  Made getting an album more exciting.  It was interesting to see how the band had also developed the songs and ideas and sounds.  So this is almost a kind of testament to that idea.

Welcome to the Anonymous - Alternative Versions (2012) is a collection of original, alternative, live versions and unheard songs.  Anonymous began just before 2011, and I had written and recorded 4 tracks.  I wasn't sure if the sound I was developing was the one I intended.  I continued to develop the ideas anyway, and one day I got a virus on my computer that wiped all the songs.  I then began recording the album from scratch, and came up with the version in 2011. 

I later released I had gave my friend and musician Scott a loan of one of my pendrives with some music on it.  This pendrive had the original Anonymous music on it.  It took over a year for me to get this pendrive back.  When I got it back, I had forgotten how good some of the recordings were.  So I began putting these songs on this new album.  I was content to make it an 8 track E.P, which I initially put it up as.  However, as I looked on my computer at the other versions of Anonymous songs I made that people would not have heard, I thought it would be cool to add them all on an album.  If people wanted to hear it, that's cool; if not, then I just like having the additional album.  It is a good contrast to the original album, as there are quite a lot of acoustic versions. 

So there it is.  That is the logic behind the album.  It is a collection of Anonymous songs, over 2011, that were not heard.  It was compiled during a few nights, and the artwork was created in one night.  This at the moment is the only project I have released in 2012.  I enjoyed putting it together and I hope people enjoy listening to it.

Watch this space,

Wullae

http://wullaewright.bandcamp.com (find: Welcome to the Anonymous - Alternative Versions)