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  I love understated, rare, hard to find, “lesser known” and under-appreciated music. It’s like finding a treasure chest in the woods that nobody knows about yet. “Random Rare Music” will be a randomly produced written pieces about albums, artists, songs from anywhere, from any time period, current, “uncurrent" on hiatus and anything I feel needs to be listened to and appreciated more.  I discovered this album on the InterTube and instantly knew I had to start a new series on this page. My Grandmother Was A Church Organist sparks melancholy, poignant emotions for me. According to discography, this album was released in 2007 which isn’t super new but that will be a pattern in this series as I’m a firm believer that good music doesn’t expire. This album is warm, yet longing and the larger-than-life feeling I get from these songs are equally grounded and true to humanity. My Grandmother was a Church Organist encapsulates a great stylistic blend of lo-fi, dark folk, dream pop, cha...

  Nick Neuburg is more than a percussionist who relies on more objects, bowls, sticks, brushes, springs and nails than having a full drum kit. He also will channel improvisation in a way that tunnels through your reverberant ears and scratches the naturally curious parts of your brain. Some tracks are like a re-enactment of jumping in a pool of frogs and paying the price of 150 ribbits a second until you beat the frogs. Others sound more like going into a long tunnel and dragging a TV behind you with a metal chain with every step you make creating more sound than it would in most other settings. If you are an open, imaginative, listener this album would be a good pick. I recommend showing this disc and videos of Neuburg live to anyone who says Jazz can’t be a fun or freeing genre anymore. The fun is still there, just not as platformed and propelled and rewarded fairly as it once was. So help Nick Neuburg beat the industry and buy this CD to reward genuine fun and engaging music or ...

  Andrea Pensado and Chris Strunk are Sheer Anxiety, an electro-acoustic noise duo incorporating drums, bowls, wooden objects, electronics and voice. These recordings as the cover suggests are all live performances from 2018-2025, some of these I was lucky enough to catch in person. To myself, Sheer Anxiety has been a project that constantly is crossing the line back and forth between experimental music and performance art. Without including too much theatrics or props or anything of that nature, Sheer Anxiety uses sound and improvisation itself as a way to immerse listeners and particularly triggers my imagination to think about settings and situations that these tracks would fit. Moments of suspense throughout these tracks will leave you unnerved yet not disturbed or uncomfortable enough to press pause. Every sound on this CD feels like it was intentional to put before the next pattern and it builds up like a pyramid that’s waiting to collapse a few minutes later.  Noise pro...

  Through an uncanny array of sounds, words, effects, broken cassette tapes and feelings, Pumpkin Friend turns the strange into the familiar, transforming the creepy into a calming, home-like sensation, almost as if you’re in the same room as him when you’re listening to these recordings. The first track, "The Haunted Ice Cream Parlor” reminds me of walking into a 24 hour diner at midnight, slightly drunk and stoned, but not trying to be impolite and ordering a coffee then leaving to smoke a cigarette outside. To me it is easily the most standout track of the project yet it’s not underwhelming to listen to the rest, it’s actually a pleasant surprise. The rest of the album is a blend of dark folk, a sort of Lo-Fi psychedelic rock tone and outsider country to me. Lots of these songs make me reflect on lots of memories of myself hiking, or really camping without a tent in the middle of a hiking reservation in the dead of night with no concern for repercussions just for the simulated ...

  In between Noise River and Experimental Electronic Creek in Massachusetts is Seaworm, making music for librarians, paranoid schizophrenics, Charlie Brown, people who can be trusted with firearms, people who can’t be trusted with firearms, and communists with information the CIA doesn’t want you to know. This album, “Outliving the Evil Of This World” to me is like exploring your personal relationship with good people living in an evil fascist country. Questioning whether the evil country consumes you or consumes your environment, or both. Most importantly, how do we put an end to capitalistic evil and suffering? On this release there are four tracks with a somewhat distinct but different sound on each. It opens up with “lowercase phone jungle” which is like if frogs and flies got into drum and bass and started making tracks in the swamp but they couldn’t afford dj equipment so this is what you have. also reminds me of crocodiles.  The third and fourth tracks, “Bachanale for E...

  An Essential Practice Of The First Amendment Why I Don’t Like The Government Part Two The State of Modern Economic and Financial Genocide America loves to claim itself as a non-barbaric, civilized country with a high standard of living, that is against war and killing but if you’re paying attention at this point you know they’re lying. It’s not always in plain sight how they do it though. The military and police state is one blatant example but even in the systems that are vital and essential to survival of everyone like nutrition, medicine, housing, and emergency medical treatment are slowly killing people with debt in this country. If you get hit by a car or injured some other way and need surgery or to go to an emergency room, health insurance or not you’re gonna have to pay for it and if you can’t, there is no negotiation about you being put in hundreds to thousands of dollars in debt, and let’s say you can’t work or even lost your job due to having to be out of work to recov...