Gary Schneider was an American hobbyist who pressed a couple of records privately, for friends rather than for sale, and would have stayed invisible had one of his pieces not surfaced on Enjoy the Experience, the 2013 anthology of US home-recorded vanity albums. This single sets his reading of Green Tambourine, the Lemon Pipers' 1968 bubblegum hit, against a B-side that folds Cast Your Fate to the Wind and The Breeze and I into a single short medley.

Schneider built these recordings alone, on organ and early synthesizer, running his voice through a talking-instrument effect that anticipates the vocoder by some years. The familiar tune arrives warped: a chirping, slightly unearthly one-man arrangement, melodic and oddly tender, equal parts lounge orchestra, fairground organ and bedroom electronics. Nothing about it sounds professional, and that is the point.

This is the kind of sound whose hold has only tightened with time. Made with modest equipment and no commercial ambition, it carries a charge that the polished records of the era rarely manage, the sense of one person conjuring a whole imaginary ensemble out of a console organ and a head full of standards. Space-age lounge of this sort sits between kitsch and real invention, and a steady audience keeps returning to it for exactly that uncertainty.

Trunk Records presents the two sides as a 7" at 45, in an edition of 500 copies, housed in a miniature-LP sleeve with printed spine and polylined inner. It joins the label's run of 7" singles drawn from the further edges of recorded music.