Anonymeye - Anontendre

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4...according to our Mike on Thu 11 Aug, 2011.

This is nice. A new CD from Australia's Andrew Tuttle, AKA Anonymeye, here on his third release. It's bang up my alley as far as this kind of semi-ambient stuff goes. There's certainly elements of melody contained on this here disc but it's not pop as we know it. He uses a mixture of organic and electronic instrumentation to build up his relaxing tone sculptures. Vibe-wise the synth bits are kind of reminding me of Food Pyramid or something, but there's always that interplay between those and the organic instruments which is satisfying, and the melodic focal point is generally the guitar. Phil thinks some of it's a bit like Spacemen 3's dronier stuff. Pretty blissed out stuff anyway. The material on this album seems to vary from quite complex and melodic fingerpicked guitar to fairly minimal drone. It's constantly evolving and never really grating. I like it.

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Andrew Tuttle, aka Anonymeye, is one of Australia's unsung heroes of the esoteric pop realm.
Equipped with steel string guitar, banjo, analog synth and computer, Anonymeye’s trade-
marked picked acoustic flows and shimmering analog washes epitomize a rivalry of analog
and digital interests. It’s the fuzzy drama of this competition that pulses at the heart of Anon-
tendre.

Anontendre, his third full length, relishes the politics of creation and production. Like the driv-
ing processes of the record, Tuttle’s interest in obscure and bewildering minutae of forms of
governance is reflected in Anontendre's track listing. It’s an 'all-you-can-Wiki' primer into how
power can invigorate, distract, and ultimately corrupt.

Loosely, Anonymeye's music could be described as an Anonymocracy - where tensions pre-
viously held between assumed rival factions such as acoustics and electronics, improvisation
and composition, dissonance and melody are recognised and explored, but eventually
heading towards a resolution that is part utopian and part redemption.

Anontendre continues Tuttle's propensity for factoids, puns, statistics and double meanings -
all captured in a neat audio package. Anontendre is the latest amendment in the ongoing
development of the constitution of Anonymeye. Although the stakes aren't as high as they are
for the Prince Leonard of Hutt River's of the world, Tuttle's fledgling Anonymocracy continues to
forge an individual sense of identity, three albums in.

About Anonymeye
Anonymeye is the nom de plume of Andrew Tuttle from Brisbane, Australia. His reconfigures
various organic and mechanic musics within a sonic framework akin to an abstract musical
Esperanto. Utilising electronic and acoustic instrumentation including acoustic guitar, signal
processing, synthesisers, and effects units, Anonymeye straddles and blurs boundaries be-
tween improvisation and composition, experimentation and song-form, rural landscapes and
urban constructions and melody and dissonance. Since 2004, Anonymeye has released three
albums, a half-dozen or so short-form and split releases, and appeared on a score of various
artist compilations.
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