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 best of 2010 !!! 
rare youth (usa) #ry-31 lp

larry marshallqueer and wonder” long playing record

  • all is forgiven
  • spiritual home
  • little fox
  • my glasses
  • tina’s fake or real

  • love after the bomb
  • pagan worm in a transformational world
  • international punk trick
  • will listen
  • balloon boy
november 2010 release ; reason #101 (as if you needed the other 100) why you should love geoff mullen :: upon receiving a modest grant from the state of rhode island to realize an lp of “localmusic, geoff decides not to blow the dough on a lavish double-lp gatefold of his own music, but instead a nice, well-considered collection by r.i.outsider” genius larry marshall, whose fans & acolytes range from arab on radar (with whom he toured), scøttwork/deathreber (who recorded some of the material here on his old bsr radio show) and chrisophercfforgues (who, along with providing the layout & look of this lovely lp edition, “produced” a few of the tracks in his inimitable style) ; the left-over money was then used to procure larry a suit (“nothing too fancy”) ...

the music here’s wildly divergent, covering a buncha bases ... the solo, live material is as fractured in it’s time scale as that of syd barrett (who sounds like a major influence) ; but then there are the darkwave electro-ballads that are more attuned to a berlin cabaret ca. 1981 than a contemporary olneyville bedsit ... the latent eastern-tinged sensibilities & odd production choices (i.e. doubled-up vocal tracks) that prop up songs like “pagan worm in a transformational world(listen to the sound-sample) place larry squarely in that unbroken continuum of “private” / “real-peoplegenius-types, relevant to fans of the frogs & gary wilson as kenneth higney & peter grudzien ; but on tracks like the openerall is forgiven” his simplistic vocals & casiotronics paint him as naïve as a newborn kitten ...

an awesome record, has me a bit outside my comfort zone in the best possible way (complacency is overrated anyways) ... white & off-brown sleeve contains a nice stiff insert & credit-sheet ; how well this all turned out is a testament to geoff’s stick-tuitive-nuss ... highly recommended !!!
rare youth press release...

larry marshallqueer and wonder”  lp

this album is a collection of songs from larry marshall, an elusive and mythic figure whose self-described “gothic folk...from the future” is presented here for the first time in glowing, psychedelic stereo-surround, etched on black wax.

larry has been living in rhode island for his entire life, and has performed at many of the storied (and now defunct) venues in and around providence, ri. despite this long history, his music is barely known outside of a small circle of close friends and die-hard local fans.

queer and wonder is a collection of songs from larry’s catalog: three tracks were previously released on a small cassette edition from unskilled labor, and a track by the band box patrol (w/larry on vocals and pitch-pipe), was previously released on a cdr by the legendary fort thunder records. the lp is rounded off w/ a few live tracks from a solo gig in manchester, england, a live radio session, and some collaborations unearthed from tapes found in larry’s apartment in west warwick, ri. 

edition of 350, covers designed by cf, w/ inserts / lyric sheet.

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lo-fi
modern-psych

rare youth (usa) #ry-08 cs

buddyshipuntitled / the way down to florida” c40 cassette

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ry-08 buddyship - "untitled / the way down to florida '07" c40

three warriors shredding their way to the 2007 inc. american free metal at its finest. note - this is the trio version with harris, at, and jeff hartford. culled from over two hours of live-to-4-track jams in various locations and with some uncredited collabs, this is some seriously ripping, psychic brotherhood. beautiful cover illustrations by cybele collins of a totally gnarly bear !!!

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analogue-synth
anti-music
bedroom
brutal-prog
circuit-bending
experimental-instruments
free-improvisation
guitar-themed
harsh-noise
lo-fi
minimalism-drones
modern-psych
playback-music

 best of 2006 !!! 
rare youth (usa) #ry-02 cd

rare youth” double compact disc set

  • black pus - “ghrost”
  • furisubi - “sentinels”
  • kites - “riding the glass geyser”
  • mercy light - “fuck deke” (live at club in-zone)
  • jean cozzens - “drum practice”
  • james amoeba - “pearl skies”
  • siren cult - “celebrity couples”
  • amil byleckie - “the eagle’s summation”
  • area c - “circadia”
  • xerxes - “#4”
  • russian tsarcacm - “don’t ever touch me”
  • mucid cuspidor - “vile surmiine”
  • summer city - “hurry your ass”
  • alberich - “everything i’ve ever wanted”
  • blue shift - “twist taster”
  • feral children - “panic attic”
  • siege engine - “untitled”
  • i would eat that pizza - “i don’t know how to live my life”
  • haunted house - “gravediggers”

  • lucky dragons - “shimmering problems / on kitchen floors / outside of kitchen windows”
  • synb - “electric gladiators”
  • lazy magnet - “voyage of the universal harmony rainbow”
  • pedestrian deposit - “you will not treat me this way”
  • chris paddock - “4 t-shirts”
  • h2h - “liquid sky”
  • leif goldberg - “closet day to earth”
  • petal boat - “tiny kitten”
  • unicorn hard-on - “bird in hand”
  • what cheer? brigade - “disco bhangra”
  • red delicious - “soda”
  • byron house - “snake skein”
  • mairead donnelly - “black butterfly”
  • black forest / black sea - “old man chepachet”
  • total gym - “live at the mutiny”
  • workdeath - “i am failure beneath your love”
  • diego perez - “squid battles and dies”
  • god willing - “drawn edited”
  • teenage waistband - “beast”
first release (...after a 7” single and a cassette) on geoff mullen’s rare youth label - a double-disc compendium of contemporary goings-on in the providence, ri area, as compiled, lovingly, by geoff himself.

unlike many other providence “scene” compilations that feature, say, artists now signed to load; or artists that are friends with dom “prurient” fernow, this offers a pretty damn subterranean overview of what’s bubbling just underneath the surface of providence’s musical collective consciousness...
rare youth press release...
v/a : rare youth – new music from providence, ri

2cd compilation

here it is…a year in the making…a collection of new music from one of the most fertile and constantly changing locales in the union. featuring over two hours of music and spread out over thirty-eight tracks, rare youth brings together some of the most exciting artists at work in providence right now: work/death, kites, black pus, xerxes, heart2heart, russian tsarcasm, blue shift, lazy magnet, byron house, teenage waistband, black forest/black sea, unicorn hard-on, synb, leif goldberg, siege engine, lucky dragons and many many more.

sequenced to highlight the great diversity of musical stylings in this small town, this cd takes you on a smooth ride down the many colorful roads of: power pop psych noise, abandoned dronescapes, reckless free improvisation, emo power electronics, late night elven dance music, epic psych rock, shredded throat guitar doom, john carpenter-esque synth despair, witty no-fi punkish noise, genuine teenage love songs, total garbage, marching bands, etc. etc.

with the attention that providence has received for being a hub of louder-than-life, experimental music / art, this compilation tries to provide an updated snapshot of the current subterranean goings-on. it includes many of the artists who are responsible for bringing such acclaim and attention to this small community - brian chippendale (lightning bolt, black pus), mat brinkman, leif goldberg, jo dery, christopher forgues - while also highlighting some of the new and young artists who are taking things in different and exciting directions - russian tsarcasm, alberich, heart2heart, blue shift, summer city, byron house. there are also a handful of tracks featuring visiting artists (pedestrian deposit, brian miller and kevin shields…).

hand-packaged in a double-cd gatefold sleeve, with original illustrations and design by christopher forgues - aka cf, kites, paper radio, low tide, fantasy empire, etc. (his work can also be seen in comics anthologies kramer’s ergot, the ganzfeld, paper rodeo).

compiled and edited by geoff mullen.

edition of 1000 copies.

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 best of 2006 !!! 
rare youth (usa) #ry-01 ep

geoff mullena rip in the fabric” seven inch single record

  • a rip in the fabric (side one)

  • a rip in the fabric (side two)
debut release on this geoff-mullen curated label, formed to release a double-disc collection of providence-area goings on (the “rare youth” comp ; ry-02 cd) & still going strong years later (with catatalogue numbers into the mid-20s at this stage !!!) ...

this is a single room-tone electric guitar murkler, pressed onto two sides of a 7” record, housed in a very nice set of nepalese hand-painted paper with some print-gokko aktion on the front. a mysterious & foreboding entry into the geoff mullen discog; now growing at an alarming rate!

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