"The Bird That You Can't See" is a 2001 single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 by The Apples in Stereo

The Apples in Stereo

The Apples in Stereo, styled The Apples in stereo, is an American indie rock band associated with The Elephant Six Collective, a group of bands also including Neutral Milk Hotel and The Olivia Tremor Control. The band is largely a product of lead vocalist/guitarist Robert Schneider, who writes the...

. The song featured is a remixed version of a track from the fourth Apples album, The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone

The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone

The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone is the fourth album from The Apples in Stereo. It received generally good reviews as a showcase for the band’s experimental/psychedelic pop....

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The Apples in Stereo

• Eric Allen - bass guitar, backing vocals
• Hilarie Sidney
  Hilarie Sidney
  Hilarie Sidney is a musician most famously recognized as the longtime drummer for The Apples in Stereo. She was previously married to Apples in Stereo frontman and Elephant 6 co-founder Robert Schneider. Their divorce became publicly acknowledged in 2004...
  
   - drums, perucssion, backing vocals
• Chris McDuffie
  Chris McDuffie
  Chris McDuffie is an American musician. A keyboardist, he performed with the Elephant 6 band The Minders and appeared on their 1996 debut EP Come On and Hear. McDuffie later became a member of The Apples in Stereo, first appearing on the album Her Wallpaper Reverie in 1999...
  
   - organ, synthesizer, piano, backing vocals, percussion
• John Hill
  John Hill (musician)
  John Hill is an American guitarist best recognized as a member of The Apples in Stereo and Dressy Bessy.Hill, a college friend of drummer Hilarie Sidney and bassist Jim McIntyre, joined The Apples in January, 1994 after the departure of lead guitarist Chris Parfitt...
  
   - rhythm and acoustic guitars, backing vocals
• Robert Schneider
  Robert Schneider
  Robert Peter Schneider is one of the co-founders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, along with Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, and Jeff Mangum...
  
   - lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars, piano, synthesizer, lead and backing vocals, percussion

Production

Jim McIntyre

Jim McIntyre (musician)

Jim McIntyre is a musician best known as the man behind the Elephant 6 band Von Hemmling. He was also the original bassist for The Apples in Stereo before leaving in 1993. He has written or co-written many early songs for the band, including "Stop Along the Way", "Touch The Water", "To Love The...

 acted as executive producer on the single for The Elephant 6 Recording Co. Artwork is by Steve Keene

Steve Keene

Stephen Keene is an American artist who believes in mass producing hand painted works of art for the masses. He was called the "Assembly-Line Picasso" by Time magazine...

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"The Bird That You Can't See"

Track 1 was produced by Robert Schneider and engineered by The Apples in Stereo with Ron Marshall, Robert Christiansen and Jim McIntyre. Remix by Rich Costey. Recorded between May 1999 and February 2000 at Pet Sounds Recording Studio, Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

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"Her Pretty Face"

Track 2 was produced by Robert Peter Schneider and engineered by The Apples in Stereo with Robert Christian and Jim McIntyre. Recorded at Pet Sounds Recording Studio, Denver, Colorado on 4-track, 8-track and 16-track tape machines, and on the Elephant 6 Mainframe Computer.

External links

• Cover art at Optical Atlas