The man behind East River Pipe is F.M. Cornog, and he is, without question, one of those artists whose biography serves greatly to illuminate his music, so here's the story: After a difficult childhood in New Jersey, Cornog in his early 20s was a self-taught musician going nowhere fast. After a series of
dead end jobs and a quick descent into alcoholism, he wound up homeless, sleeping on a bench at the Hoboken, NJ train station. It was there that he met Barbara Powers, who became his girlfriend and set him up with a home studio in
Astoria, Queens, near the Hell Gate bridge. Cornog named his project after the river the bridge spans, self-deprecatingly imagining a connection between his music and the waste flushed into the East River, and named his label after the bridge itself.
This was all back around 1990. Over the next few years Cornog began releasing home cassette recordings. Thanks to critical attention from U.K.
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