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Sydney lawyer. Four albums in six months. Streamed free.

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Biography

Anthony John Sissian

Anthony John Sissian is Principal of Sissian & Associates and a Solicitor and Barrister of the High Court of Australia, admitted in 2014. He has worked at the highest levels of law in Australia, was nominated for Litigator of the Year, and secured suppression orders for the victims of the Annandale samurai-sword attack.

Before the law he trained in NIDA's Singer Actor Dancer program, then at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York and the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. His string octet The Whistler was premiered by the Sydney Lawyers Orchestra in 2015 on a program of Mozart, Handel and Telemann.

On 1 January 2026 he returned from the Monroe Institute's Gateway Voyage and began writing. Four albums followed in six months, written, arranged, recorded and produced alone and released through his imprint Aurora Sentient: YOU thee ME — The Seeker Was the Sought, HOME — As within, so constructed, Verus Orion and Barbault Quadrature. He does not perform live or appear on camera. Everything streams free, full albums included, at anthonyjohnsissian.com.

Current release

Break the Circuit

HOME — As within, so constructed, album artwork
Artist
Anthony John Sissian
Label
Aurora Sentient (self-released)
On streaming services since
20 August 2026
Official single launch
11 September 2026, with video, lyric sheet and press materials
Length
6:03
Credits
Written, arranged, recorded, mixed and produced by Anthony John Sissian, alone, in Sydney
Placement
Closing track (track 11) of the album HOME — As within, so constructed, released ahead of the album's arrival on streaming services
Listen
Spotify ↗ · Free player

The full lyric is printed below. Sissian has chosen not to supply a description of the song's meaning or genre with this release. "I've said what I have to say in six minutes," he says. "I would rather read what you heard than tell you what to hear."

Read the full lyric Words and music by Anthony John Sissian. May be quoted with attribution.

Verse 1

We are suspended above the same old, terrifying abyssDoomsday scrolling through the static of a digital eclipseWe fed our precious attention to the idol we helped buildNow we're held to ransom by the screen, our spirits unfulfilledThe dissociation is total inside the theatre of the mindInstitutions built like cages to lock up the human designSlaves to a smartphone screen, caught in a three-dimensional boxDraining our sacred energy into the gears of their corporate clocks

Pre-Chorus

But look up from the pavement, we are stars wrapped in flesh and boneThe Finger of God is pointing directly to the centre of the StoneOut of the Saturnine winter, the kingdom of Oranus is at handThe Sovereign Architect rises to reclaim this hollowed land

Chorus

Raise the Chrism up the thirty-three steps of the spineTurn the silver fluid to gold in the temple of the pineal shineUnsheathe the hidden Excalibur, pull the sword from the stone of the brainUnite the Leo heart with the Aquarian nervous system's veinBreak the circuit of the digital sine waveWake up from the programmed dreamSpirit and matter are marrying nowIn the middle of the Aether stream

Verse 2

I look back at my former self, at all the ridiculous poses I madeWith that peculiar tenderness we keep for the dead when they fadeLaughing at the tribunal of guilt, the verdicts of good and evil we woreA pissy little racket of judgment that carries no weight anymoreNow forgiveness becomes the hard, bastard work of the braveRefusing to pass the wound forward, breaking the loop of the slaveAnnihilation is just the instrument that writes us from nothing to newThe obsolete form must surrender what it was to let the light shine through

Pre-Chorus

The Finger of God is pointing directly to the centre of the StoneOut of the Saturnine winter, the kingdom of Oranus is at handThe Sovereign Architect rises to reclaim this hollowed land

Chorus

Raise the Chrism up the thirty-three steps of the spineTurn the silver fluid to gold in the temple of the pineal shineUnsheathe the hidden Excalibur, pull the sword from the stone of the brainUnite the Leo heart with the Aquarian nervous system's veinBreak the circuit of the digital sine waveWake up from the programmed dreamSpirit and matter are marrying nowIn the middle of the Aether stream

Bridge

I am learning to walk on the waterOvercoming the pull of the deepThe body was just an avatarA vessel to guide us in sleepShedding the coats of heavy skinI am not the thoughts in the headUnveiling the star-space within usWhere the illusory boundaries are deadSurrendering the willTo the absolute silence of restThe sacred marriage of oppositesIs beating inside of my chest

Final Chorus

Raise the Chrism up the thirty-three steps of the spineTurn the silver fluid to gold in the temple of the pineal shineUnsheathe the hidden Excalibur, pull the sword from the stone of the brainUnite the Leo heart with the Aquarian nervous system's veinBreak the circuit of the digital sine waveWake up from the programmed dreamSpirit and matter are marrying nowIn the middle of the Aether stream

Outro

I walked right out of the machineryI found a home in TheeThe circuit is completeAUM

What has been said

In their words

“This is not a track you add to a playlist. It is a track that watches you listen.”

“Imagine the abstract vocal storytelling of Björk colliding with the spoken-word experimentation of Laurie Anderson, then remove any expectation of structure.”

“The quiet credibility of a man who has actually walked through darkness and found himself changed by what waited on the other side. The song doesn't perform healing. It documents it.”

“This track is the Sistine Chapel of music.”

“Not a song, a shift. The voice no longer comes from the human, but from a higher, almost divine point of view.”

“A piano-led prayer wrapped in doubt and faith.”

“This is music that heals quietly, as the best kind always does.”

“Here, being alone is not absence, but origin — a Big Bang of consciousness.”

“The precise moment a formalised, closed-loop metaphysical system achieves complete collapse into absolute unity.”

“In addition to playing pieces by Mozart, Handel and Telemann, the orchestra has added a never before heard piece by Sydney lawyer, Anthony Sissian.”

In his words

Anthony John Sissian, on the record

Direct quotations from the artist. May be used with attribution.

“I just receive the music. I just try to get out of the way and reproduce it to the best of my ability. The reason I’m sharing it is because of what it did for me, which was healing. It felt like it was healing my DNA.”

On why he releases the work

“Truth is not for me to hold. It’s only for me to share and tell the truth about its origin.”

On authorship

“You’re writing the script. It’s your movie. You are the sovereign architect of your life.”

On the theme of HOME

“Arriving uninvited, whole, and complete.”

On how the songs came, from 1 January 2026

Radio

On air

Breaking Sound Radio (USA): three-month daily Artist Spotlight, June to August 2026, narrated by the artist.

Also aired: Groover Radio (France) · UKI Radio (UK), Episode 442 · Ze Rock Porto · Power Ace Radio (UK) · Free 99 Radio (USA) · Planet Radio (France) · Nam Radio (Namibia).

In numbers

Twelve months to 1 September 2026

Coverage

Every article, at its source

Nothing here has been summarised or rewritten; where an outlet made an error, the error stands. Links open the original publication.

Earlier

Artwork

Album covers

Click a cover to open it at full size. Hi-res artwork, WAV masters, a radio edit and the lyric sheet as a separate PDF are available on request. No photographs are supplied; the work is voice and words.

Facts for journalists

At a glance

Name
Anthony John Sissian (pronounced SISS-ee-an)
Based
Sydney, Australia
Imprint
Aurora Sentient
Occupation
Litigation lawyer; composer
Releases 2026
YOU thee ME — The Seeker Was the Sought (19 March); I Found Home in Thee (June); HOME — As within, so constructed; Verus Orion; Barbault Quadrature; Break the Circuit (streaming since 20 August, launch 11 September)
Live performance
None
Elsewhere
Spotify · YouTube · SoundCloud · Instagram · Facebook · youtheeme.com
Contact
onlylonynoly@gmail.com