Raridades is the last in the series that my friend Kléo and I have been compiling and releasing over the past year or so in digging through the archives of my earlier music and other artwork that my parents had been kindly storing in their home.

There’s a lot of variety on this one – some of the tracks are bare bones acoustic folk-punkish demos recorded on cassette, including some from my first band The Band Of The Land circa 2002-’04, and others that I recorded solo in the early 2010s – others are never-before-heard songs that were recorded with a conventional rock and roll band setup, sometimes with me playing all the instruments – and then there are a bunch of rare live recordings of songs you might be more familiar with, and some completely experimental stuff from ethereal, dreamlike instrumentals to harsh, abrasive tracks bordering on anti-music.

The last one, “Resident (2011)”, is a song I wrote in my late teens that I’m trying to teach myself how to play again, but I still haven’t been able to figure out what the tuning is. If you can figure it out, let me know what it is and I’ll probably buy you a bagel next time we’re in the same place: Jesse (at) Cannonball Statman (dot) com

released November 11, 2025

Cannonball Statman on acoustic guitars, electric guitars, basses, lead vocals, backing vocals (tracks 4, 6, 8, 13, 25, 52, and 53), drums (tracks 3, 4, 13, 17, 18, 26, 27, 35, 37, 47, 52, and 56), percussion (tracks 7, 8, 17, 29, 32, and 52), ukuleles (track 12), singing saws (track 12), thumb piano (track 52), harmonica (track 52), band box (track 52), wind chimes (track 53), keys (tracks 12, 13, and 36), melodicas (tracks 13 and 52), and sound effects (tracks 6, 18, 23, 37, 42, 47, and 53)

Beth Heuer on percussion (tracks 2, 9, 41, 51, and 53), vocals (tracks 9, 30, 45, and 53), and sound effects (tracks 30 and 53)

Alex Ashmun on drums (tracks 10, 11, 20, 33, and 34)

Marc Grillo on drums (tracks 30 and 44)

Tracks 1-5, 7-9, 12-15, 17, 18, 21-23, 27-32, 35-43, and 47-60 produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Cannonball Statman at Space Travel Studios, Brooklyn, 2002-2015

Track 6 produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Cannonball Statman on Mount Guardian, NY, 2010, and remixed by Cannonball Statman at Space Travel Studios, Brooklyn, 2012

Tracks 10, 11, 33, and 34 produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Cannonball Statman at Alex’s apartment, Brooklyn, 2012

Tracks 16 and 19 recorded by Katherine Koch in Hudson, NY, and mastered by Cannonball Statman at Space Travel Studios, Brooklyn, 2012

Track 20 recorded by Cannonball Statman at Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, and mastered by Cannonball Statman at Space Travel Studios, Brooklyn, 2012

Track 25 produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Cannonball Statman on Muse Road, NY, 2012

Track 26 produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Cannonball Statman in Oaxaca, 2019

Track 44 produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Marc Grillo in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, 2005

Track 45 recorded by Beth Heuer in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 2003

Track 46 recorded at Lakeside Lounge, Brooklyn, 2012

Photography by Katherine Koch, Oaxaca, 2024

All music and lyrics by Cannonball Statman, 1993-2024