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Anthony John Sissian is a Sydney-based composer, writer, and the artist behind the 10-track concept album YOU thee ME . Before making this record, he appears to have lived several different lives, some of them apparently at the same time . He spent over a decade as a High Court Barrister managing a $13.5 billion corporate dispute portfolio—which is one way of studying human beings when they are no longer pretending to be simple . Somewhere alongside that, he wrote music performed by the NSW Lawyers Orchestra and helped secure the only permanent legal protection order ever granted across the Commonwealth for victims of violent crime (the real-life foundation for his track "Rise Gentle") . Then, at the beginning of 2026, after returning from the Monroe Institute’s Gateway Voyage (a consciousness-expansion program linked to declassified CIA research), songs began arriving whole . Not fragments. Not sketches. Fully orchestrated symphonies broadcasting directly into his brain uninvited . This was not a career pivot; this was triage . Unable to afford a $70,000, 60-piece orchestra to prove his sanity, he accepted his fate as a mouthpiece for the divine and recorded the music himself . The result is YOU thee ME—a record that treats loneliness as something older and stranger than biography . It explores a simple premise: an omnipotent universe got so profoundly bored being alone that it split itself into a "you" and a "me" just to have a conversation, but method-acted the roles so hard it forgot it was playing a game of hide-and-seek . Blending acoustic R&B, cinematic soundscapes, and electro-pop, Anthony’s music is designed for deep listeners . He is less interested in genre than in recognition—the moment when the stranger looks familiar, the wound begins to speak, and the universe accidentally lets slip that it may have been talking to itself all along .