‘Team of Just One’ – behind the songs
Everything you might (or might not) want to know about the songs on Anecdata album, Team of Just One. AMMUNITION This was the very last song written for the album – literally one Saturday morning in late February 2022, days after the Russians invaded Ukraine. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had just delivered the immortal line,...
New Anecdata album, ‘Team of Just One’
Been writing and recording a lot lately – as I usually do in the summer months when it’s too hot to do anything else. Once again it’s resulted in a new album! Shock, horror. Team of Just One is a dozen tunes (14 if you get it from Bandcamp) of fuzz guitars, power-pop and a...
#13 – ‘Safe as Houses’, #14 – ‘Wherever We Are’ and #15 – ‘Shadow Black’
Sorry for the lack of updates! If anyone’s actually reading this. Anyway, there have been three new tunes since I last wrote here. All on Spotify/Apple/everywhere else, or for download below. Safe as Houses by Anecdata Wherever We Are by Anecdata Shadow Black by AnecdataWe’ve been in lockdown here in Auckland for over two months...
#12 – ‘All Potato’
Song #12 of 52 is a tune a friend described as a “creepy nursery rhyme” – ‘All Potato’. All Potato by Anecdata I wrote it a few months back – initially it was just a simple beat with the bassline, which in my head was something along the lines of U2’s ‘Bullet the Blue Sky’....
#11 – ‘Wrong Decision’
Song #11 is ‘Wrong Decision’. Wrong Decision by AnecdataI initially wrote and recorded a demo of this one in 2018 after listening to whole lot of early-70s Bowie. It’s clear I’m no Bowie. Maybe late ’80s Bowie? But definitely not early 70s. Bowie. My initial notes were that the tune was good, but the lyrics...
