Album DescriptionSafe Away includes fan favorites such as Â"Los AngelesÂ" and Â"StevenÂ". Meant as a gift for friends and family (and recorded when Witmer was a mere nineteen years old), Safe Away went unpublicizedÂ?though it soon caught on publicly, and it serves as starting point to WitmerÂ?s career. In WitmerÂ?s own words: Â"Its exciting for me to see these songs as Â?newÂ? again in the public eye. Although it seems bizarre for me to release songs this old, IÂ?m going to embrace the age-old proverb, Â?sometimes you have to go backwards to go forwardÂ?Â".
Are You A Sleeper? is the tie-in to WitmerÂ?s 2005 album, Are You a Dreamer?. It was recorded in the dead of winter, in just over 24 hours, at Mission Hall Studio, just outside of Lund, Sweden. The Sleeper? EP features two previously unreleased songs, three Â"sleepyÂ" versions of songs that appeared on Are You A Dreamer? (Sub Pop recording artist Rosie Thomas guest vocals on Â"Castle And CathedralÂ"), as well as 3 live tracks from a recent Witmer show at WXPN World Café Live in Philadelphia, PA.