Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t

Like other so-called “bands” within the like-minded Elephant 6 coterie, Pipes THE THING IS, Pipes YOU DO NOT was even more of a person when compared to a band. In cases like this, see your face was Pete Erchick, keyboardist and contributor towards the Olivia Tremor Control. Erchick became a member of the OTC following release of the Dusk at Cubist Castle record, to greatly help reproduce the band’s Wall structure of Sound within a live environment. Erchick became an extremely active member, adding “I HAVE ALREADY BEEN Floated” towards the group’s 1999 work Black Foliage: Computer animation Music. Pursuing that album’s discharge, the music group splintered into many clothes, including Will Cullen Hart’s the Circulatory Program (with who Erchick documented and toured), and Costs Doss’ sunlight Fix. During this time period, Erchick commenced focus on single projects beneath the name Pipes THE THING IS, Pipes YOU DO NOT. The name was attracted from a cutaway illustration within a reserve Erchick got as a kid. In 2000, he added to Naked within the Afternoon (a tribute to outside folk musician Jandek) along with the U.S. Pop Live, Vol. 5 compilation. In August 2001, he released Individualized Shirts, together with Cloud Recordings (a label operate by OTC’s John Fernandes and can Cullen Hart). The disk was regular, though extremely well-done, Elephant 6 fare: psychedelic swirls of keyboards, folkish guitars, and horns, having a lengthy cast of expanded family (including OTC’s Fernandes and Eric Harris, in addition to Neutral Dairy Hotel’s Jeff Mangum and Scott Spillane). Erchick peppered the release’s liner records with sources to ’70s football players, such as for example Ed Kranepool and Brooks Robinson.