Album Notes

About Imprint

The more immediate history of this album dates to 2005, when I continued my efforts to build a home recording studio after an aborted effort in 2001. (The tech bubble had just burst then.)

I was listening to "absolute ego" by Japanese pop artist ACO, and the album straddled many fine lines between jazz, electronica and pop. It reminded me of a vague idea I had around 2003 that some of my earliest songs — from the late '80s — could be fashioned into a similar kind of album.

The earliest history of this album dates back to 1987, when I started high school. I wrote two songs — "Promises" and "Silver Sting" — that didn't sound like an imitation of whatever I was listening to at the time.

Those songs were influenced by the AOR hitmakers of the day -- Basia, Sade, Swing Out Sister, Hiroshima, even Tears for Fears. When I set out to write a full album of material, I went back to these influences and mixed them up with more recent influences -- namely, ACO, with some Cocco, UA and fra-foa on the side.

"Imprint" is the result. It's what happens when too much Japanese indie rock seeps into jazz-pop from the '80s.

— Greg Bueno, January 2009

About the Work Release Program

The Work Release Program is a series of releases featuring the demo recordings of Eponymous 4. These home recordings approximate how a final album would sound, but they are not considered definitive. Some performances may be rough, and the recordings are not totally polished.

Tracks from each release are posted to the Eponymous 4 official site weekly before being made available for retail. The program begins with the release of "Imprint".

About Eponymous 4

Eponymous 4 is a play on Anonymous IV, an unnamed English student whose writings are some of the few existing documents regarding French music from the Middle Ages. Eponymous 4 is also the home studio project of Greg Bueno, a web developer and lapsed musician.

Greg works at a technology company in Austin, TX. He studied music and journalism in college, and he writes about music on his weblog, Musicwhore.org.