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. Two humans staring straight ahead and saying Yes.   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.   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.   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.
ALSO STILL AVAILABLE...
RY-17 Alberich - Heat Death 2 - C30 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.
Edition of 300, pressed on green vinyl and with a 32-page inserted zine of drawings and illustrations by the two artists. SOLD OUT
BUT...copies still available through some distros
 
LISTEN - Yes, You Might Find Me by Russian Tsarlag 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
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: 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
LISTEN - Gravediggers by Haunted House 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
LISTEN - A Rip In The Fabric (side a) paypal is the preferred payment method, however, i accept money orders / cashier's check made payable to:
geoff mullen
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