Anonymity is the New Fame is more than just a song and album title for Los Angeles songwriter/composer/multi-instrumentalist Michael Orendy. It’s a working philosophy and a way to live an artist’s and musician’s life in a world of showboaters and technological exhibitionists. It’s a way to stay yourself in a world where every sound and feeling shoved through the same narrow channels start to sound like a repetitive buzz of buzz.

Anonymity is a home studio record that reminds the world why it’s done and how all the crucial emotions of a lived life are most artfully framed within walls. Orendy’s private room, and his music, are bigger than any cliché of the wounded and bedridden. Everything that crosses a human mind and heart come to life most vividly when alone, and Orendy is here to deliver it all: the quietly lovely parts and the forcefully grandiose parts; the hazy dreams and the cold-eyed realities; the gentle shuffles and the urgent poundings; the creamy voices and the solid guitars. A 1920’s piano, key to many of his songs, is an instrument best meant for intimate parlor, not the stage - or the Internet.