Last year, my brother who lives in LA, called me and said he had found a box in his garage that contained old data storage tapes and some dusty old cassettes. When received the box in the UK and opened it, I realised that these were back-up sessions of songs that I had written and partially recorded during the early-to-late 90s but had never finished. I scrounged old hardware from eBay and rebuilt a system that could restore the sessions. As I retrieved each song, it was like magic. I was transported back, listening to myself singing 30 years ago as if I were standing in my studio today. There were at least 30 songs, some more polished than others, and I knew what my next album would be. I decided to finish them, adding parts, lyrics and even rewriting choruses, so that this hidden music could get out of the box and see the light of day.

Lord Vanger, aka Anthony Vanger, is a music producer working at Sixième Son, one of the world’s biggest music production companies. THE BOX is Lord Vanger’s 7th album. Previously, Vanger worked under the name OPERATICA, signed to Emagine music selling over 300,000 copies. Songs from the series, which combined opera arias with electronica, reached #9 on the US Billboard Dance Charts, #5 on the US Crossover Charts and #1 on iTunes. The tracks were widely used in TV shows, most notably during the finale of the ground-breaking Queer As Folk and in America’s Top Model starring Tyra Banks. One of the songs, Mon Amour, helmed Volume X of the popular Buddha Bar series and was the title track in Jane Campion’s film “Hideous Kinky.”