Musical Style Electronic
Influences Beatles, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, New Order, Kinks, The Diary

Liner Notes, Credits, Other Details
On their new release, ’Future Past’ (on EndPop.com), Anything Box finds the joy of revisiting some old friends. Carmen was a song that first appeared on their debut album, Peace. This was also the album which gave them international acclaim with the hit ‘ Living in Oblivion’. While the group toured the states, the song Carmen quietly went to number one in South America. Songs from their first album also made their way into a Spanish novella ‘ Alcanzando Las Estrellas’. It is astounding to see, hear and feel the love that their Latin fans have for Anything Box… Indeed, this support once brought them to Brazil where they played a show in front of 70,000 people! To record a song in Spanish was a request that the group had heard many times during their tours of the US, Mexico, and Ecuador. While planning on an official anthology of their work to be titled, Anything Box: Volume One (coming very soon on EndPop as well), the idea surfaced again, but this time it was inspired while the group was in South America… Claude states, “The decision came to me as I was sitting in my hotel room in Ecuador. We had just done an amazing show, and I was very happy. I was watching this program on Argentine Models and as I heard them speak, I began to feel very close to my roots. And the idea popped into my head… Why not Carmen? It was a good story, and it was loved here, and we never got to see the success because we were in the states. So why not?” The recording of the single in two languages was fun, but it was not a simple task. Dania and Claude worked on the lyrics, which were then given the approval by Claude’s mom. The music was worked out in roughly two months of trial and error, while Claude practiced the song on a daily basis in his car. His mom was also at some of the vocal recording sessions, and was quite moved when the final version was unveiled. Claude says, “Watching her cry was validation that we were onto something. Right up to the end there were surprises. We wound up doing remixes, adding amazing guitar parts from Paul because of a dream I had had at the last minute, and recorded new music.” During the final stages of mixing ‘Future Past’, Anything Box took time out to re-master and contribute another song, ‘Life is Fun’ (Orangewerks) to the movie ‘ Mo’, which won the Malibu Film Festival award for best film, and they attended the premier. What will come next? Stay tuned to www.anythingbox.com and find out!

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