Albums that have been released 'incognito'?

[Rufus]

Just saw this future release by Arjen Lucassen that was previously released by not saying who the actual artist was. Does anyone know of any other recordings where the artist has not disclosed who they where?



CD] ARJEN ANTHONY LUCASSEN - Strange Hobby


Price: £10.99

Note: PRE-ORDER: 08/07/2016 - Previously released in 1996 with no artist name! Mow with 4 bonus tracks. [New : M/M]
Cat No: ALM001CD Released: 08/07/2016 Reference: 18492

Track Listing: 1. Arnold Layne / 2. Norwegian Wood / 3. Pictures of Matchstick Men / 4. I Am A Rock / 5. Boris the Spider / 6. In the Room of Percussion / 8. See Emily Play / 9. For No One / 10. I Want You / 11. Bus Stop / 12. Flowers in the Rain / 13. The Letter / 14. Ride a White Swan / 15. Sloop John B. / 16. Daydream Believer / 17. Catch the Wind / 18. Ice in the Sun / 19. Pretty Girls / 20. In The Room Of Percussion Feat. Peter Daltry / 21. Last Train To Clarksville / 22. Ruby Tuesday

Review: STRANGE HOBBY was previously released in 1996 without saying who the artist was! It can now be announced it was legendary Dutch prog artist ARJEN ANTHONY LUCASSEN!

Strange Hobby” is a collection of Arjen’s recorded versions of songs that have influenced his musical development. To make the album even more “strange,” the booklet contained no information about who was responsible for the recordings. The album, mastered at Abbey Road Studios, was a complete mystery. As Arjen explains, “From the start I intended to keep it a secret, who made this album. I just wanted to do that…it may not be smart from a commercial point of view, but it was fun.”

Strange Hobby has been out of print for over a decaseand is now a much sought after collectors’ item. This edition includes FOUR bonus tracks which have not been available on the album previously.

[JKL2000]

"legendary"

[Mister Triscuits]

Paul McCartney's Thrillington was a pretty poorly kept secret.

Probably more common than whole albums are pseudonymous singles, such as "Don't Think Twice" by the Wonder Who (Four Seasons) or "We Are the Moles" by the Moles (Simon Dupree & the Big Sound).

[Lopez]

Probably the grandaddy of "incognito" albums is that of the Masked Marauders. Said to be a super session of Dylan, McCartney, Jagger, and who knows who else. Was really the Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band. No credits were listed on the cover, if I remember correctly.

Another is the 1987 or so French album Who Are These Masked Men? by Samm Dogg. Turns out it was the Sir Douglas Quintet.

[JKL2000]

Most albums by The Residents (if not all)

[JKL2000]

Swedish Family

Ok, not really incognito, but I thought it was a fun "pastiche" kind of thing by Tomas Bodin

[Halmyre]

Green Bullfrog

Klaatu

A few artists have released singles under pseudonyms, don't know if that counts: Celia and The Mutations (The Stranglers), Suzy and The Red Stripes (Linda McCartney), Company (Whitesnake), Klark Kent (Stewart Copeland).

[rickawakeman]

Licorice John Death (Procol Harum).

[yoyiceu]

Heavy Jelly -name used by British band Skip Bifferty when they released incognito a single (I Keep Singing the Same Old Song) in 1969. According to the Allmusic.com history, the name appeared first in a fictitious review published by British magazine Time Out', a la Masked Marauders, which began as a fictitious review in Rolling Stone making fun of the 'super session' craze of the late sixties. The review alleged that a super super session involved among others McCartney, Jagger and Dylan had taken place. A small label then recorded an album with unknown musicians trying to follow the descriptions of the songs in the Rolling Stone Review.

Also following the Time Out fictitious review about a band named Heavy Jelly, a producer recorded a few anonymous musicians as Heavy Jelly, and the result was 'Time Out' (like the magazine). The single had some success, so later an album was recorded with singer Jackie Lomax and members of Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, but the album wasn't released until more than a decade later.

[SteveSly]

Paul McCartney's Thrillington was a pretty poorly kept secret.

Probably more common than whole albums are pseudonymous singles, such as "Don't Think Twice" by the Wonder Who (Four Seasons) or "We Are the Moles" by the Moles (Simon Dupree & the Big Sound).

Didn't McCartney release an album or two under the name of The Firemen (or something like that?).

[Mister Triscuits]

Didn't McCartney release an album or two under the name of The Firemen (or something like that?).

I didn't count the Fireman because it is theoretically a group - Paulie plus Youth from Killing Joke. But yeah, it was supposed to be anonymous even though everyone knew who it was.

[Progbear]

There were a couple fairly recently: Fright Pig (I think the guy finally revealed who he was in an interview) and The Psychedelic Ensemble (who I believe is still anonymous, but some believe him to be a classical musician who wanted to do prog on the side under this fake-band pseudonym).

[yoyiceu]

Uriel, the pre-Egg band that includes Steve Hillage and Dave Stewart, used fictitious names in the liner notes when they recorded their psychedelic album as Arzachel in a few hours in 1969.

[viukkis]

Traveling Wilburys and The Dukes of Stratosphear.

Of course, everybody knows who those guys were, but their real names were not anywhere on the album covers.

[markwoll]

Passengers was a U2 Brian Eno project, soundtracks for unreleased films.

[Gruno]

Dramarama released an album under the name, The Bent Backed Tulips…

The recording sessions for Stuck in Wonderamaland produced enough material for three albums. Instead of letting so many songs go to waste, Easdale & Carter decided to again try a foreign release. Thus, Looking Through..., a 14-song album, was released in Europe by "The Bent-Backed Tulips", both pseudonym and album title in reference to lyrics from The Beatles' "Glass Onion". Looking Through... was eventually re-released in the U.S. through Fullerton, CA-based eggBERT Records with extra tracks, increasing the number of songs to 20.

[happytheman]

Probably the grandaddy of "incognito" albums is that of the Masked Marauders. Said to be a super session of Dylan, McCartney, Jagger, and who knows who else. Was really the Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band. No credits were listed on the cover, if I remember correctly.

Some of that album was actually pretty good.. Fond memories of picking those songs apart guessing who was singing etc.

[interbellum]

Not an album, but a single: The Imposter: Pills And Soap (IMP/Demon Records, 1983)

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(there's also a second single: https://www.discogs.com/Imposter-Pea.../master/427709)

[Jubal]

Passengers was a U2 Brian Eno project, soundtracks for unreleased films.

Just about everything Eno has done in the last 20 years has been music for an unreleased film.

[BravadoNJ]

in a reversal, Roland Orzabal released an album under his own name Tomcats Screaming Outside. but was actually a Tears For Fears album.

[Mister Triscuits]

Flo and Eddie--which is already a pseudonym that originated when Frank Zappa couldn't use their real names on Chunga's Revenge--made a Kraftwerk parody EP under the name Checkpoint Charlie, with the band members credited as M. Salz and H. Pfeffer (German for salt and pepper).

[saucyjackstl]

Bent Back Tulips - It was an album by Dramarama while they were having contract issues with their label.

[Progbear]

Flo and Eddie--which is already a pseudonym that originated when Frank Zappa couldn't use their real names on Chunga's Revenge--made a Kraftwerk parody EP under the name Checkpoint Charlie, with the band members credited as M. Salz and H. Pfeffer (German for salt and pepper).

It’s also one of the few records where the groove starts at the center and ends at the outside edge. Your bit of unrelated, random trivia for the day.

in a reversal, Roland Orzabal released an album under his own name Tomcats Screaming Outside. but was actually a Tears For Fears album.

Does that mean James Warren releasing his solo single “Burning Questions” under the Korgis moniker counts, too?

[Levgan]

Burial was an incognito project. Very deep, atmospheric and talented electronic stuff IMO.

[interbellum]

Does that mean James Warren releasing his solo single “Burning Questions” under the Korgis moniker counts, too?

Didn't know that version, I only have his LP/CD with this track; this version sounds a bit more synth-pop like than the one released on the album: