FERRARO, JAMES ~ WILD WORLD ~ cdr (new age / summer headrush)
part of the second limited batch of summer headrush 2009 releases from james ferraro of the skaters with full-colour pro-printed sleeves. wild world is edward flex visits multitopia, one of the bleakest and darkest of ferraro’s recordings thus far, as he ties up fantasies of body modification and hollywood stardom with terrible eschatological visions and cut-ups of recorded testimonies of members of the heaven’s gate mass-suicide cult on their hopes for a transport to heaven. his use of minimal musical fragments looped to infinity is at its most twisted and wrong, with obsessive vocal figures played out over leery keyboard parts and snippets of vocal that conflate plastic surgery with pre-lapsarian and post-ufo powers of transformation. there’s often a lurid, cartoon aspect to ferraro’s amplification of the various desires that contemporary popular culture works as a cipher for but this one feels less technicolour and more desperate, charting the apocalyptic fantasies (via elvis presley and michael jackson) that find their apotheosis in california’s end-of-land culture through a series of black magical workings. also features some of ferraro’s most shredding 80s/90s metal guitar. an extremely heavy installment. – volcanic tongue.
FERRARO, JAMES ~ WILD WORLD ~ cdr (new age / summer headrush)
FERRARO, JAMES ~ WILD WORLD ~ cdr (new age / summer headrush)
part of the second limited batch of summer headrush 2009 releases from james ferraro of the skaters with full-colour pro-printed sleeves. wild world is edward flex visits multitopia, one of the bleakest and darkest of ferraro’s recordings thus far, as he ties up fantasies of body modification and hollywood stardom with terrible eschatological visions and cut-ups of recorded testimonies of members of the heaven’s gate mass-suicide cult on their hopes for a transport to heaven. his use of minimal musical fragments looped to infinity is at its most twisted and wrong, with obsessive vocal figures played out over leery keyboard parts and snippets of vocal that conflate plastic surgery with pre-lapsarian and post-ufo powers of transformation. there’s often a lurid, cartoon aspect to ferraro’s amplification of the various desires that contemporary popular culture works as a cipher for but this one feels less technicolour and more desperate, charting the apocalyptic fantasies (via elvis presley and michael jackson) that find their apotheosis in california’s end-of-land culture through a series of black magical workings. also features some of ferraro’s most shredding 80s/90s metal guitar. an extremely heavy installment. – volcanic tongue.