RARECHILD

Rarechild, from New York's leisurely Hamptons, is the performance project of Michael Aaron (Gurus, Rahim). Drawing from the sounds and images of avant-pop pioneers like Kate Bush, Depeche Mode, and David Cronenberg, Rarechild explores gender ambiguity, the interface of flesh and technology, the sacred and the strange. Listen to their single, "Hybrid", and see the video by Steve Nolan and Eddie Costas at Nerd Rage Film.

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Looking for your summer soundtrack? Check out the bands featured in Obvious Child:

Casey Brooks: http://caseybrooks.bandcamp.com/

Frank LoCrasto: http://franklocrasto.bandcamp.com/

Hits: http://hitsnyc.bandcamp.com/

The Kossoy Sisters: http://www.kossoysisters.com/

Legs: http://www.feellegs.com/

The London Souls: http://www.thelondonsouls.com/

Rarechild: http://rarechild.bandcamp.com/

Scout Niblett: http://www.scoutniblett.com/

Small Black: http://www.small-black.com/ 

Yoga Pose: http://yogaposeonline.tumblr.com/

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Rarechild is very glad to have some songs in the wonderful movie Obvious Child.

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"On Fire," by Gurus

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Wearing a big shirt last night at Radio Bushwick with the New Lewiss

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Scrooged

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"Give me a doughnut." - Special Agent Dale Cooper

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RULE ONE: Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for awhile. RULE TWO: General duties of a student — pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students. RULE THREE: General duties of a teacher — pull everything out of your students. RULE FOUR: Consider everything an experiment. RULE FIVE: Be self-disciplined — this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way. RULE SIX: Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make. RULE SEVEN: The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things. RULE EIGHT: Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes. RULE NINE: Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think. RULE TEN: “We’re breaking all the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.” — John Cage HINTS: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully, often. Save everything — it might come in handy later.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/10/10-rules-for-students-and-teachers-john-cage-corita-kent/ (via gurusmusic)

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Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever. So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?” We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.  And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there. It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

[fashiongrunge]

Behind Electro-Art Rock: Interview w/ Michael Friedrich of Rarechild

The music scene is changing. Like it always does. Over the last few months I’ve been thinking more…

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Steve Nolan and Eddie Costas at Nerd Rage Film created and produced this video for “Hybrid”, by Rarechild. It features gender trouble and a cyborg baby.

Costume and makeup by Destiny Montague.

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“Hybrid,” by Rarechild, is a new two-song single recorded in December 2012. It concerns the future of flesh.

Listen to the song from Soundcloud.

It is accompanied by the image “Rendered Aura,” by Travess Smalley.

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Octopus eggs

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Home is not for me and you. “Nomad,” by Rarechild, was recorded in October. It features myriad Michaels.

Download the song from Soundcloud.

It is accompanied by the image “Rendered Aura,” by Travess Smalley.

In 2012, Rarechild will release a song each month through Dimension Arts.

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Promo for the upcoming single “Nomad” by Rarechild

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The new Rarechild song "Nomad" is coming out soon. For now look at Michael Aaron, in his many incarnations, singing the song a cappella. Really. Look at him.

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Sometimes a house is not a home. “In Our House,” by Rarechild, was recorded in September. It features Destiny Montague of Carl Sagan.

Download the song from Soundcloud.

It is accompanied by the image “Rendered Aura,” by Travess Smalley.

In 2012, Rarechild will release a song each month through Dimension Arts.

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“In Our House (Interlude)” was recorded by Rarechild in August. Michael made a sample of his voice. CBX used it to compose this dreamy instrumental piece, a prelude to a severance.

Download the song from Soundcloud.

It is accompanied by the image “Rendered Aura,” by Travess Smalley.

In 2012, Rarechild will release a song each month through Dimension Arts.

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Celebrate the release of our single, "Night Creep." Creep with us on Tuesday, August 28, at Big Snow Buffalo Lodge in Bushwick. Presented by Supercrush Studio.