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I am Cale Anderson, and Australian born human with genetics from Ireland and The UK, I like to create music using synthesizers, grooveboxes, ableton live suite and guitar, and I’m heavily inspired by Avant Garde music, instrumental Nu-Jazz and 70’s rock like Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix etc. I am also a mental health advocate seeking to get into the field of Peer Support helping others who struggle, like I once did, with a Schizoaffective diagnosis, or other similar mental health conditions like Bipolar and Schizophrenia, which I’ve also been falsely diagnosed with both, in the past. I’m a fair believer in the idea that sharing stories can save someones life, and also that saving someone’s life can create a story. Creating a story for the person you saved, not the other way around, usually.

Fun Facts about CALE MALCOLM ANDERSON:

Fact 1: a quarter of my birthdays were spent in mental institutions.

Fact 2: I started as a keyboard improviser, not a guitar improviser.

Fact 3: Some of the first songs I ever wrote were with my friend Jesse Venn on a project called “Offensive Tape”, which was a cassette of 8 or 9 tracks about various things that happened at school, like a booger that hung my my first girlfriend’s nose when I was kissing her in school… that really put me off.

Fact 4: I’m a video gamer and a loser. My favourite 10 games of all time are as follows:

Conker’s Bad Fur Day

Metal Gear Solid 2

Timesplitters 2

Super Mario Yoshis World

Super Metroid on SNES

WSOP Texas Hold’em Poker 2008

Castle Crashers

Far Cry Instincts: Predator

007 Nightfire

Midnight Club 3: DUB EDITION

IN 2025 Cale Anderson created, in some instances, and redistributed in others The Duck Series of albums. The Duck Series contains songs of poetry, musings and ideas from the realm of the duck phase of Cale’s life.

The Minute Been, Cale Anderson (Self-Titled), I was once a pool shark, World Indy/Devil Man (WORLDiNDY/DEViLMAN), certain we’ll get it done and rescue everyone & Émilien (In The Key of Emilie) are songs he considers part of the collection “The Duck Series”.

The album “Free as a Sheep” contains an album artwork of imagery of a duck, just like the albums in the series, although “Free as a Sheep” is not considered part of The Duck Series.

Drawing inspiration from many unrelated places and bringing them together, Cale draws inspo from acts such as Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, to Damien Rice, for his song writing and melody making. Radiohead’s and Electronic Bon Iver’s music such as 22, A Million & KID A MNESIA for his production and Norwegian Pop for that production as well.

Cale Malcolm Anderson also draws heavy musical and fashion sensibility inspiration from the likes of Tyler, the Creator & his clothing brand Golf Le FLEUR* for his gemstone cardigan which was only in stock as a extra small size when Cale Anderson went to check out, so instead he got his year long collaboration partner Sara Gsilva (2025 - 2026, as I type) to create a recreation of the gemstone cardigan which she’d also go on to create a pearl green cardigan based on Tyler’s black pearl cardigan, and yellow pearl cardigan listed on his website in season 3.

Cale is not only interested in drawing inspiration from Tyler in clothing, the music, too. ✨🤍🤍🤍✨

Cale, I enquired about you to Chat GPT and this is what it said:

Cale asks Chat GPT: Cale Anderson’s favourite artists? Deep cuts only.

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If we go deep cuts rather than the obvious headline names, Cale Anderson’s favourite-artist constellation looks something like this:

• Damien Rice: probably the deepest-rooted one. You’ve said he was your favourite musician from about age seven into your late twenties, which puts him in a different category from a passing influence.

• Thomas Dybdahl: one of the quieter but very persistent names around your musical DNA. Intimate, nocturnal, strange chord choices, soft-detail production.

• Emilie Nicolas: a huge modern reference point for you, especially the ambiguous writing, dark-pop production and sound design. She feels less like “someone you enjoy” and more like someone whose artistic language you study.

• Men I Trust / Emma Proulx: the newer obsession. Daily listening, records and merch interest, “Song for Emma”, the whole gravitational field. Definitely among your strongest current favourites.

• SKAAR: deeper than a casual favourite because you’ve talked about making an entire cover album around her songs, including “DNA,” “Time,” “Medicine” and “End of the Song.”

• Holy Holy: one of those names that repeatedly surfaces when you describe what actually shaped your taste, rather than simply what resembles your music.

• Paolo Nutini: another surprisingly important one in that formative cluster.

• Glen Hansard: part of the Damien Rice-era emotional/songwriter bedrock. Less flashy as an influence, but foundational.

• Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: especially interesting because the connection goes back to childhood. You specifically remember “As I Sat Sadly by Her Side”, so Cave sits deeper than just “dark music I like.”

• Dead Can Dance: keeps appearing around the spiritual, ritualistic, unsettling side of your taste.

• Anna von Hausswolff: a very Cale-ish deep cut. Spiritual ambiguity, enormous atmosphere, unusual timbres, beauty that feels slightly dangerous.

• Snarky Puppy: important because they expose the other half of your taste: instrumental musicianship, nu-jazz, arrangement density and players actually playing.

• Bon Iver, especially the more electronic material: less “sad acoustic guy” and more fractured vocal architecture, processing and atmosphere.

• Radiohead: probably too famous to count as a true deep cut, but the particular reason they matter to you is the experimental/electronic mutation rather than simply the canonical albums.

• Led Zeppelin / Jimi Hendrix: deeper in your background than people might assume from your current output, tied to that recurring 1970s-rock vein.

And then there are artists I’d call satellite favourites, where the aesthetic connection is unusually strong even if you haven’t described them as lifelong favourites: The Japanese House, AURORA, Florence + the Machine, Estas Tonne and Tom Waits.

If I had to describe the hidden pattern, your taste isn’t really “indie” or “experimental.” It’s artists who sound like they’ve built a private physics system. Damien Rice does it emotionally, Emilie Nicolas sonically, Nick Cave mythologically, Men I Trust atmospherically, SKAAR melodically, and Anna von Hausswolff spiritually.

The genuinely obscure core might be Thomas Dybdahl + Emilie Nicolas + SKAAR + Holy Holy + Glen Hansard. Those tell me considerably more about Cale Anderson than saying Radiohead or Nick Cave ever could.

Cale’s fashion palette seems to live in a kind of soft occult / art-school pastoral / oddball luxury zone.

Colour-wise, the strongest recurring tones are teal, pearl, baby blue, cream, forest green, muted yellow, black, silver, dusty pastels, and occasional deep red or burgundy. The teal pearl cardigan is almost a signature object at this point, and there’s a repeated attraction to clothes that feel a little dreamy or storybookish rather than purely fashionable. Black tends to appear as the grounding colour, while pastel greens, blues and yellows give things that slightly uncanny sweetness.

Inspiration-wise, there are a few distinct streams feeding it:

• Golf le Fleur / Tyler, the Creator-type prep, especially pearl cardigans, soft knits, pastel combinations and clothes that feel polished without becoming formal.

• 1970s folk and soft-rock dressing, things like textured knits, earth tones, loose shirts, slightly faded colours and a nonchalant musician silhouette.

• Medieval / devotional imagery, not necessarily literal costumes, but symbolic jewellery, heraldic motifs, celestial symbols, silver detailing, robes, tapestry-like textures and garments that feel a bit relic-like.

• Indie European art-pop, where something can be elegant, strange and emotionally cold at the same time. That dovetails nicely with the Emilie Nicolas / SKAAR / Scandinavian side of his taste.

• Pastel surrealism, especially baby blue, pale green, lemon, cream and candy-coloured clothes against cleaner backgrounds. That shows up a lot in the visual ideas he gravitates towards.

• Noir touches, particularly black coats, dark tailoring, silver jewellery, cigarettes-as-cinema imagery, old typography and slightly detective-film styling.

• Handmade / outsider-art energy, where the piece feels customized, drawn-on, embroidered, patched, painted or otherwise singular rather than luxury-store pristine.