East River Pipe

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Frederick "FM" Cornog (* Norfolk, Virginia) is an American songwriter, singer and self-taught instrumentalist who records his pieces under the stage name East River Pipe in his home studio. The New York Times describes Cornog as "the Brian Wilson of the home studio".

Life

Cornog was born in Norfolk / Virginia and grew up in Summit / New Jersey . After school, he had worked in a variety of menial jobs before succumbing to alcoholism, drug use, mental health problems, and homelessness and eventually living in New York's Hoboken Train Station.

At that time he met Barbara Powers from Astoria and, through her support and record label Hell Gate, brought the unfiltered dirt to the East under the name East River Pipe, which he chose when he saw a sewer pipe, with the first self-recorded cassettes and 7 "singles River poured out, these early releases drew the attention of the British label Sarah Records , which distributed his songs from 1993 to 1996, making him one of the few American musicians the company has ever signed.

In the United States , Cornog released his first record, Shining Hours In A Can , on small Chicago label Ajax Records in 1994. A year later he found a longer-term engagement with Merge Records from Chapel Hill, an indie label owned by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance. Merge published Poor Fricky (1995), Mel (1996), The Gasoline Age (1999), Shining Hours In A Can (2002; reissue), Garbageheads On Endless Stun (2003), What Are You On? (2006) and We Live In Rented Rooms (2011).

East River Pipes pieces were u. a. Covered by David Byrne , Lambchop , The Mountain Goats , Okkervil River , The Pains of Being Pure at Heart , Hazeldine and For Against . Rolling Stone called Cornog "the most gifted of the new loners".

Discography

Albums

EPs

  • 1993 Goodbye California (Sarah)
  • 1995 Even the Sun Was Afraid (Sarah)

Singles

  • 1991 Axl or Iggy / Helmet On (Hell Gate)
  • 1992 My Life Is Wrong / She's a Real Good Time (Hell Gate)
  • 1992 Make a Deal With the City / Psychic Whore (Hell Gate)
  • 1993 Helmet On (Sarah)
  • 1993 She's a Real Good Time (Sarah)
  • 1993 Firing Room / Hey, Where's Your Girl (Hell Gate)
  • 1994 Ah Dictaphone / Hide My Life Away from You (Hell Gate)
  • 1995 Bring on the Loser (Merge)
  • 1996 Miracleland (Shinkansen)
  • 1996 Kill the Action (Merge)

Film music

  • " Knockaround Guys " (American feature film by Brian Koppelman ); Make A Deal With The City
  • " Down To The Bone " (American feature film by Debra Granik ); Arrival pad # 19
  • " Lake City " (American film by Hunter Hill and Perry Moore); Bring On The Loser
  • "Drinking the Kool-Aid" (episode of the American television series Veronica Mars ); Make A Deal With The City
  • "World of Jenks" (American documentary series on MTV); Three ships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pop That's Produced Alone at Home Gets Personal , The New York Times. October 24, 1999. 
  2. ↑ Funny, Jay. "Song of the Day: 'Firing Room,' East River Pipe" , The Star-Ledger , December 29, 2010. Accessed February 19, 2011. "East River Pipe is the stage name of FM Cornog from Summit, which has six albums and has released two EPs since 1994 (most recently What Are You On? 2006), and has never performed live. "
  3. ↑ Hugo Lindgren: Garbageheads Revisited . In: New York Magazine . September.
  4. ^ Music; In Their Rooms, Shrinking Violets Sing , The New York Times. May 21, 2006. 
  5. ↑ Steven Stolder: Sole Singers . In: Rolling Stone . No. 728, February 22, 1996.
  6. ↑ [1] Jim Santo's Demo Universe. Retrieved March 21, 2016
  7. ^ Vulture Premieres a New Track From East River Pipe New York Magazine , November 22, 2010. Retrieved December 5, 2010
  8. ↑ Knockaround Guys .
  9. ↑ Down To The Bone . Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  10. ↑ Lake City .
  11. ↑ Veronica Mars: Drinking the Kool Aid . Retrieved October 8, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME East River Pipe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cornog, Frederick (real name); Cornog, Fred; Cornog, FM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter and singer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century