In August 1991 the four of us gathered to rehearse for the very first time in a small house in the village of Djurås. Nicklas and Peter had been playing together in different constellations since they were kids and I had teamed up with them in May 1990 for a project with the specific aim to cover King Crimson songs. But it wasn’t until Anna Sofi joined that the project turned into a proper band.
Ever since then Anekdoten has been an ongoing part of our lives. Admittedly, we have not been the most prolific of bands, but there’s been occasional periods of frenzied activity and we’ve continiously been creating music together throughout the years...
When the label Kscope proposed doing a career retrospective we jumped at the idea. The introduction is called Chapters and will be released digitally on April the 27th and as a 2-CD set on the 11th of May. It mixes tracks from our 5 studio albums along with rarities and unreleased tracks.
On the first CD you'll find our favourite songs from our 3 most recent
albums. As a bonus we finally did a proper recording of a tune we wrote
in 1998 called "When I Turn". The song was not included on from From
Within because we couldn't play the piano properly. For this release we
asked Per Wiberg of Opeth to help us out, so now we can finally release
this baby into the world.
The second CD mostly contains material from our early years. The
disc kicks off with perhaps the most legendary Anekdoten song, the epic
"Sad Rain", which previously only has been available in Japan. There
are also demo versions of three songs from the Nucleus album. The
creative atmosphere that surrounded these recordings made them far too
good to lie gathering dust in the archives. Rounding things up are
demos of Pieces" and "Prince Of The Ocean" songs that would be
reworked, but not necessarily improved, for our most recent studio
album A Time Of Day. All songs have been carefully (re-)mastered by
Hans Fredriksson at Audiosense.
CD 1
1. RICOCHET
2. THE GREAT UNKNOWN
3. FROM WITHIN
4. IN FOR A RIDE
5. THE WAR IS OVER
6. MONOLITH
7. A SKY ABOUT TO RAIN
8. EVERY STEP I TAKE
9. GROUNDBOUND
10. GRAVITY
11. WHEN I TURN (Previously unreleased)
CD 2
1. SAD RAIN (Alt. mix)
2. WHEEL
3. THE OLD MAN & THE SEA
4. NUCLEUS (demo)
5. BOOK OF HOURS (demo)
6. THIS FAR FROM THE SKY (demo)
7. 30 PIECES (demo)
8. PRINCE OF THE OCEAN (demo)
More info can be found here: Kscope
You can order the beautiful cd package from Burning Shed and get a free poster!
/Jan Erik