RARE YOUTH
P.O. Box 5662
Providence, RI 02903
USA

email/paypal: rare.youth777 (at) gmail.com

AVAILABLE CASSETTES / SPRING DOWNER EDITION:

Tapes are $6 ppd in the USA, $9 World


RY-20 Make A New Memory Vol.1 - C40 edition of 50

Reclaiming past relationships / spiritually reconnecting through emotional and abstract communication systems.
Recorded at the Okie St. Grow Room (R.I.P?) with great thanks to John Lusi, Esquire. Performed by Sakiko Mori and Geoff Mullen. The first in a series of M.A.N.M. releases, this version being a one-off improv duo for electric guitar and the Roland Juno - at times fiery and possessed, with occasional light-hearted romps (see sound sample).

Two humans staring straight ahead and saying Yes.

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RY-21 Geoff Mullen - Spring Beach Of Depression - C36 edition of 50

Recordings made at a snail's pace over the course of a year, in Pittsburgh and Providence. Five different views through a foggy depressive lens, collaged together and put to tape. Somewhat of a return to form here, perhaps an anticipated homecoming of sorts, most of these tracks are real slow burners - some of them eventually opening up for a small peak into the abyss. G.M. plays Yamaha CS-50, various strings, electronics, reverb, and percussion, with some help from Sloow Bart de Paepe on thumb piano.

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RY-24 Morgan Egg - Columns In The Sun - C12 edition of 35

It's been a long while since we heard from our reclusive man in Italy...

Morgan Egg, the Nameless Enchanter, is back with some dark and dreamy songs for the 22nd century.
More acoustic than his early work, what sounds like bongos and maybe some cymbals being dragged across a giant plate...
The first side is somewhat hopeful, or at least nostalgic, with its major tonality and posi-synthesizer gurgle - but M.Egg brings us back into his apocalyptic dream on side two, with a side-long industrial endurance drone.

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RY-25 Northern Cross - S/T - C40 edition of 50

This session, from 2006, represents the first edition of Northern Cross - G.M., Kris Lapke, and Chris Moon. Recorded in a dark and shitty practice space covered in porn and gig posters for various Rhode Island metal shows. There is a man pacing around with a shortwave radio looking flustered, transmission tubes, fire escape. Totally different from the recent wall-of-psychedelic-noise NC tapes, this could be seen as the precursor their magnum opus Shitty Madrigal.

Alien Fidelity, the sound of an Olneyville winter.

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ALSO STILL AVAILABLE...

RY-17 Alberich - Heat Death 2 - C30 edition of 100
RY-18 Emaciator - Secondary - C24 edition of 100


OTHER TITLES:

RY-11 Russian Tsarlag / Blue Shift split LP

Mysterious and creepy emanations from two of Providence's finest weirdos...

Thank You For The Plastic Surgery You've Given Me features some of Tsarlag's finest recorded work to date, including such hits as Back Lot, My Slow Hand, and a fine rendition of Brian Wilson's Don't Worry Baby. Tsarlag fans might consider this to be a starting point for the more orchestral Tsarlag sound, richly executed with jangly guitars, organ, drums, tape loops, repetitive and hypnotic themes, 60-cycle hum, VHS samples, and Carlos's signature lyricism and delivery.

The Burrow gives us thirteen tracks of wildly explorative solo music, utilizing violin, voice, tapes, drums, and pre-recorded sounds to wondrous effect. Fast-paced violin scraping and tape-manipulated collages, vocal wheezing, yelping, gothic dub, etc.
For those of you who've only seen Cybele's live performances, this side offers a totally different take on her unique sound-world...
up close and personal!

Edition of 300, pressed on green vinyl and with a 32-page inserted zine of drawings and illustrations by the two artists.
First in a possible series of LP releases funded by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

SOLD OUT

BUT...copies still available through some distros
seek and ye shall find!


LISTEN - Yes, You Might Find Me by Russian Tsarlag
LISTEN - Taken By The Pines by Blue Shift


RY-10 Eli Keszler - Livingston LP

Debut LP by drummer / multi-instrumentalist Eli Keszler. A composition in four parts, Livingston is a brooding and dark meditation for drums, crotales, guitar, clarinet, bowed percussion, fender rhodes, nail violin, and tapes. Furious outbursts of raw percussive energy are tempered with floating distended melodies, silence, low-end drone, and high-pitched bells. Clocking it at just over 23 minutes, this is a potent piece of music and an auspicious debut by a very talented young artist (noted for recent appearances with Jandek, Phil Niblock, Greg Kelley, etc). This should appeal to fans of - gruppo d'improvvisazione nuova consonanza, Keiji Haino, Mirror, Giacinto Scelsi, etc. Limited edition of 300, with hand silk-screened covers.

$15 usa / canada
$22 world

LISTEN - Livingston (excerpt)


RY-02 Various Artists - Rare Youth 2xCD Last Copies!

A sprawling survey of sub-underground music that was happening in Providence, RI from 2005-2006. Lots of folks on here, many bands / people have since left town or disbanded. Runs the gamut from total harsh noise to teenage-love songs...seriously...but surely leans in the direction of weird subterranean noise, psychedelic musings, personal diaries, etc. Artists include, in order of appearance:
Black Pus, Furisubi, Kites, Mercy Light, Jean Cozzens, James Amoeba, Siren Cult, Amil Byleckie, Area C, Xerxes, Russian Tsarcasm, Mucid Cuspidor, Summer City, Alberich, Blue Shift, Feral Children, Siege Engine, I Would Eat That Pizza, Haunted House, Lucky Dragons, Synb, Lazy Magnet, Pedestrian Deposit, Chris Paddock, Heart2Heart, Leif Goldberg, Petal Boat, Unicorn Hard-On, What Cheer? Brigade, Red Delicious, Byron House, Mairead Donnelly, Black Forest/Black Sea, Total Gym, Work/Death, Diego Perez, God Willing, Teenage Waistband.

Edition of 1000, hand-packaged in a chipboard digi-pak with art / illustration / design by CF (Low Tide, Fantasy Empire, Powr Mastrs).

$12 usa / canada
$15 world

LISTEN - Gravediggers by Haunted House
LISTEN - Sentinels by Furisubi


RY-01 Geoff Mullen - A Rip In The Fabric 7-inch EP

Two solo improvisations for electric guitar - thick with New England reverb and dark winter fuzz. Recorded during the same period as The Air In Pieces (Last Visible Dog), after a brief tour with Work/Death. Edition of 300, screen-print on handmade paper.

$5 usa / canada
$8 world

LISTEN - A Rip In The Fabric (side a)


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geoff mullen
p.o. box 5662
providence, ri
02903


Discography:

  • RY-19 New Russians "Out of the Blue" 2xC18 white cassette album
  • RY-18 Emaciator "Secondary" C24
  • RY-17 Alberich "Heat Death 2" C30
  • RY-16 Pro Bro Dog / Lazy Magnet - split C32
  • RY-14 Geoff Mullen "Static Dreams" C20
  • RY-13 Geoff Mullen "Gathered In The Ruins" C20
  • RY-12 Ten Thousand Things "s/t" C20
  • RY-11 Russian Tsarlag / Blue Shift "Thank You For the Plastic Surgery You've Given Me / The Burrow" split LP
  • RY-10 Eli Keszler "Livingston" LP
  • RY-09 Superior Human Vomit (SHV) "Endless Love" C45
  • RY-08 Buddyship "Untitled / Way Down To Florida" C40
  • RY-07 Lazy Magnet "...Is Music Even Good?" C41 (tour only)
  • RY-05/6 Morgan Egg "My Time In Italy" 2xC20
  • RY-04 Alberich "Heat Death" C30
  • RY-03 Northern Cross "Shitty Madrigal" triple cassette box - 2xC68 + C81 split release with Louder Than Life
  • RY-02 Various Artists "Rare Youth" 2xCD compilation
  • RY-01 Geoff Mullen "A Rip in the Fabric" 7-inch
  • RY-00 Geoff Mullen "Grass Clippings" C47
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