Download here: https://tb8s.bandcamp.com/album/a-series-of-pipes-2024

This is the first of a few albums I'll be releasing this year. I've been sitting on around 50 songs from 2016 to now that I've been regretfully withholding due to perfectionism on my part. I always intended for these songs to have lyrics, and even have lyrics and melodies written. I just don't have it in me to record the sheer amount of takes to make it just right. The instrumentals were ready to go for the most part, but I always had a few albums laid out in my head. This is the first of many.

This album is specifically about a rough period in my early 20s that resulted in some difficult trauma I had to find my way through. Most of this was over close to 13 years ago, but I had always wanted to convey that time period through music. The concept of the songs may not be as clear without lyrics, but I think there are clues in places with samples and other things.

These songs were written & recorded between late 2016 through sometime in 2021. Most went through several versions and mixes. This current mix was made in January 2024 with new compression, EQ, and sequencing. I also included a few songs that weren't in the original planned release from around 2019.

A Series of Pipes

Post Processing

Blossom Season

µD 2, 4, 5

Version 7 August 5, 2023

To record: Vocals

Against The Flow

Been working on this one since late 2019.

V3 10/21/23

Phaedrus (Dying Lessons)

Watermelon Wind (Demo)

Piece inspired by Stereolab and Bjork mostly, maybe a bit of Air and Yo La Tengo as well.

The Anima Encounter (Demo)

The Waiting Room (Demo)

Salvador's Deli

Hometown Hero

The Pill of Smartness

Mirror Talk

Optics

After These Messages

We'll Be Right Back!

Head in the Cloud

Oobleck

Bad Apples

Be Kind, Rewind

Mise En Place

Smear Frame

Dinotopia

Higgledy-Piggledy/Infected

Pythagoras Switch

Fingerpainting

Unnatural Poses

Persona

Laugh Of A Thousand Voices

Default Mode Network (Limbic Victory)

Shadow Boxing

Hypnopompniac

CopyCat (Demo)

34 | Experimental Pop/Psychedelic/Plunderphonics

INFOMANIA

Control • Consume • Don't Worry

Everything is a Series of Pipes.

T B 8 S

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