Anonymeye is Andrew Tuttle, and sometimes Andrew Tuttle is Anonymeye. Occasionally Anonymeye features Andrew Tuttle and various friends, collaborators and co-conspirators. Live and on record, in alphabetical order, Anonymeye collaborators include Cameron Webb (Seaworthy), Daniel Spencer (Blank Realm), Danni Zuvela, ii, Jimmy Trash, Kutomo, Lars Schubert, Marisa Allen (Bremen Town Musician), Tara Pattenden-Fail (selfhelp / Kunt), Team Attack!, Tim Condon (Mirrored Silver Sea).
Influences
musical: John Fahey, Matmos, Tony Conrad, Charley Patton, Animal Collective, Fennesz, The Books, DJ Assault, The Carter Family, Morton Feldman, Kraftwerk, Dock Boggs, Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Blechdom, Jack Rose, Chad Morgan, the Harry Smith anthology, Greg Davis, Terry Riley, Cluster, Qua, likeminded creative communities of Brisbane/Melbourne/beyond.
non-musical: Principality Of Hutt River and other micronation movements, suburbia, highway motels, Australian landscapes/culture, highways, roadside service stations, politics (excluding office), the internet/teh interwebz, road trips, disambiguation, friends and family, attachment, fellow performers, Art Deco, RSS Feeds, free drinks, daylight saving (!!), artist run spaces, Colonial era architecture.
Sounds Like
The songs in the player. MP3 downloads available at anonymeye.com and halftheory.com. More to come soon.
Anonymeye is the nom de plume of Andrew Tuttle, an experimental musician from Brisbane, Australia who reconfigures various country and folk musics within an abstract sonic framework, utilising electronic and acoustic instrumentation including acoustic guitar, signal processing, synthesisers, and effects units. Anonymeye straddles and blurs boundaries between improvisation and composition, experimentation and pop, acoustic and electronic, rural landscapes and urban landscapes.
Since 2004, Anonymeye has performed at festivals, clubs and events throughout Australia and Europe including Le Placard/Club Transmediale festivals @ Maria Am Ufer (Berlin, Germany), Electrofringe/This Is Not Art festivals (Newcastle, Australia), ZXZW Festival (Tilburg, Netherlands), Fabrique @ Brisbane Powerhouse (Brisbane, Australia), Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia), Judith Wright Centre (Brisbane, Australia), Seymour Centre (Sydney, Australia), Electundra festival @ LOOP (Melbourne, Australia), Extrapool (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Instants Chavires (Paris, France), The Troubadour (Brisbane, Australia), The Zoo (Brisbane, Australia), and Horse Bazaar (Melbourne, Australia).
Anonymeye's music has released music on labels including sound&fury, hellosQuare, Curt, Half/theory, and Feral Media. Anonymeye's second full length album 'The Disambiguation Of Anonymeye' is out now on the sound&fury label.
Selected Press
The Wire - "work[s] up something sublime from the dreary hum of malfunctioning neon lights and off-white plastic balcony railings, finding beauty in their humble everydayness"
Foxy Digitalis – “a strange habitation between the mechanistic and acoustic that gives it a highly unique feel.”
mess+noise - "there's a singular and unique musical mind at work here."
Terrascope - "wonderful guitar skills"
Vital Weekly - "It may seem, written down like a duo of weird analogue synth sounds and warm guitar picking, an odd combination, but it works well in the ten pieces Anonymeye plays here. An excellent release."
The Silent Ballet - "the album becomes a seething, live mess of sounds, combating for attention - a fascinating, and occasionally beautiful thing to hear."
Scene - "a thicket of processed guitars and minimalist electronics"
Rave - "a lush blend of country-inspired riffs and licks, sampled, stopped and started, shifted and stuttered, stammered and syncopated, or simply left to ring and whisper of wide-open spaces."
Before Hollywood - "Tuttle mixes intricate bluegrass fingerpicking with sound manipulations to create a fairly unique atmosphere, since when the two are combined it creates a strange balance between comfortable familiarity and otherworldiness."
Labyrinth City - "Anonymeye, a local experimental musician has a peculiar sound: An acoustic guitar tuned to almost standard country style chords are fed through his laptop, manipulated, twisted and looped around to a somewhat strange effect and experience upon hearing it live."
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
‘The Disambiguation Of Anonymeye’: CD album, sound&fury, 2009
‘Anonymeye/Cam Deas’: 3” CDR EP: Curt, 2008 (split with Cam Deas) ‘Silhouettes 3’: CDR EP: hellosQuare, 2008 (split with Part Timer) ‘Phase Two’: 3” CDR EP: sound&fury, 2007
‘Anonymeye Motel’: CD album: Half/theory, 2006
below video... performing 'The Disambiguation Of Anonymeye' live (solo acoustic version) on Yartz TV (Channel 31, Melbourne), June 2009.
Brisbane outfit Toy Balloon will release their debut album Toy Division on
November 8 through Lofly Records, and to celebrate will perform an east coast
launch tour throughout November.
Formed in 2007, Toy Balloon was
originally a fledgling two-piece made up by Nimai Etheridge’s uniquely melodic
wall-of-sound guitar and Greg Cooper’s beautiful sequenced electronic
compositions. The band have since matured into a four piece featuring Chloe
Cooper (Mr Maps) on key boards and Ben Green on drums.
The album was
recorded and mixed at the Lofly Hangar in Brisbane, a DIY performance space that
Toy Balloon has been an integral part of creating. Fostering emerging artists
and left-of-centre music, the Hangar acts as a performance space, recording
studio, and meeting place; and has resulted in a record with a rich, layered
sound reminiscent of New Order, Mogwai, Boards of Canada, and LCD
Soundsystem.
Catch Toy Balloon launch Toy Division at a venue near you
this Oct/ November.
TOY BALLOON TOUR DATES:
Brisbane- Thursday 29
October- The Zoo, Fortitude Valley w/ Moon Jog, Tin Can Radio and Doom
Doom.
Sydney- Wednesday 4 November- ‘Upstarts’ at Spectrum, Darlinghurst
w/ Convaire and Black Bear Brown Bear
Sydney- Thursday 5 November- Oxford
Arts Factory, Darlinghurst w/ World Champion and others
Melbourne-
Saturday 7 November- Pony, Melbourne w/ Love Connection and
Aoi
Melbourne- Sunday 8 November- El Joyero, Melbourne
Toy
Division is released November 6 on Lofly Records, with distribution through MGM.
TINA IS GOING TO BE TUTTLETASTIC. THE THC WILL TREMBLE IN anTISIPATION. also introduce me (lena, yr pal!) to the vivian girls and make them be my best friends