Features : Austin artist shares music from position of anonymity

AUSTIN, Texas — The artist known as SomeoneCalledSomeone spent part of his early adulthood living a dream to be a musician and promote his songs, but he also paid a steep price, battling addiction, problems with the law and failed relationships.

Now he’s determined to recapture the joy of making and sharing music without exposing himself and his new family to the temptations of the music scene.

SomeoneCalledSomeone just released the second EP in his “Moods” series called “Frequencies: The Moods Vol. 2” out on streaming service as of March 10, 2023.

SomeoneCalledSomone said the first EP, “Pensive: The Moods Vol. 1,” released last November, was the slower, more introspective album.

“Volume 2 is supposed to be, ok, we got to think about some deep stuff, now it’s time to have some fun,” he said. “Let’s roll the windows down, let’s turn it up and let’s just vibe out. So that’s kind of the whole concept and motivation behind Volume 2, this one is the feel-good EP.

“I'm pushing a decade from when I was last relevant in music. It’s like what do I sound like in today's market because if I go start creating music like I was doing when I stopped, it’s going to be outdated. I was asking who am I in this new landscape of music. I’ve been playing in different genres, different sounds and I noticed a pattern so I created the ‘Moods” EP series specifically around that.”

SomeoneCalledSomeone said he lived the music scene and lived the problems it caused for a number of years.

“I was a touring and professional musician for years,” SomeoneCalledSomeone said. “I was also a drug addict. I had two options. One was continue with music and probably relapse because that had been my pattern, get clean, relapse, get clean, relapse. Or walk away from music entirely and stay sober and have some kind of a livable life. So that was the decision I made and I walked away from music entirely for eight years.”

While SomeoneCalledSomeone thought he was done with music, his wife knew better.

“Two years ago my wife would still see me writing,” he said. “I loved to write whether it was journaling or poetry, wrinting what may or may not ever be a song. So my wife had bought me a little studio-in-a-box, the little PreSonas kits, with a mike, a pre-amp, monitors. When she bought it I was like I don’t know why you waste our money on that, I'll never use it. I have no interest in doing music anymore, that part of my life is over.

“Then about June or July I was bored, I was at home, and I decided, just out of curiosity I want to see if I can do it. So I made a song called ‘Days, Nights and Weeks,’ and it was about addiction. I posted it online under the name SomeoneCalledSomeone just to be anonymous and it got really great responses and it kind of made me think, you know what, this is cool.”

It was cool enough that SomeoneCalledSomeone decided to see if he could make and release music without dealing with the music scene. And he figured out the technology had changed enough that he might be able to release music and promote it without giving up his anonymity,

“I made the decision that I can, from the comfort of my own home and the privacy and anonymity of this online persona, create music and still scratch that itch, but maintain the life I've built, the family I've created and the sobriety that I now have that is closing in on nine years,” he said. “When I quit making music MySpace.com just started. Facebook was still for college kids. There wasn’t digital. Every single weekend, Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, I had a backpack on my back, I was standing on a corner on Sixth Street in downtown Austin with a CD players and headphones in my hand and approach every human that walked down the street sell them a CD for $5 or be out there promoting or pushing a show I had coming up.

“Now I never have to leave my house and all the promotion I do is online. It seems so easy like it’s a cheat code, but it’s not necessarily easy because everyone else is doing the same thing. It’s really interesting, I don’t know how to say which one is better, it’s just interesting.”

A new journey is now beginning. A new artist is molding and combining genre sounds and influences with the same deep and impactful lyrics which were once so highly regarded amongst fans. SomeoneCalledSomeone is the artist for anyone who has ever felt as though unfinished business beckoned for their undying attention.

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