Summer 2008
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Moved to Pittsburgh...
 AVAILABLE TITLES:
Four new tapes for summer lovin'

RY-16  Pro Bro Dog / Lazy Magnet - split C32 edition of 50 sold out
RY-17  Alberich - Heat Death 2 - C30 edition of 100
RY-18  Emaciator - Secondary - C24 edition of 100
RY-19 New Russians - Out of the Blue - 2xC18 white cassette album - edition of 22  sold out

Tapes are $6 ppd in the USA, $9 World, except for the New Russians box, which is $12 ppd / $15 World


RY-11  RUSSIAN TSARLAG / BLUE SHIFT "Thank You For The Plastic Surgery You've Given Me / The Burrow" split LP

 Mysterious and creepy emanations from two of Providence, RI’s finest weirdos - Russian Tsarlag, aka Carlos Gonzales (Byron House, Dynasty, Mutilator Magazine, Slime Freak) and Blue Shift, aka Cybele Collins.  “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 that utilizes violin, voice, tapes, drums, and pre-recorded sounds to wondrous effect.  Fast-paced violin scraping and tape-manipulated collages, vocal wheezing, yelping, gothic dub...this is wonderful music from a one-of-a-kind artist who consistently impresses with her emotional honesty and genuine creativity.  Limited edition of 300, with letter-pressed black-on-white covers, a 32-page zine insert with illustrations / collage by the two artists, pressed on green vinyl.  


back of the LP green LP

SOLD OUT
copies still available through some distros
seek and ye shall find

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.
front of eli's LP

$15 usa / canada
$22 world

RY-02  VARIOUS ARTISTS "Rare Youth" 2xCD

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).


rare youth graphics, CF design

$12 usa / canada
$15 world


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.


front cover of "a rip in the fabric"

$5 usa / canada
$8 world

paypal is the preferred payment method, however, i accept money orders / cashier's check made payable to: geoff mullen
p.o. box 5419 / pittsburgh, p.a. / 15206
email: rare.youth777 (at) gmail.com


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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