James Ferraro — Skid Row (November 13, 2015) |
James Ferraro — Skid Row (November 13, 2015) • James Ferraro returns with conceptual album Skid Row. Location: Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Album release: November 13, 2015
Recorded: in his home of Los Angeles
Record Label: Break World Records
Genres: Electronic, experimental, ambient, lo–fi, avant–garde, vaporwave
Duration: 56:56
Tracks:
01. Burning Prius (For The World) 1:34
02. White Bronco 4:33
03. Pollution 3:48
04. Street Freak 4:28
05. Million Dollar Man 1:14
06. Thrash & Escalate 3:14
07. Skid Row 4:32
08. To Live And Die In L.A. 8:34
09. Rhinestones 5:33
10. Doctor Hollywood 6:54
11. 1992 4:19
12. Sentinel Beast 4:54
13. At The Beach 3:19
Description:
°°χ°° “Skid Row started as a collection of poems, it came first as words, then grew into becoming the lyrics of Skid Row.. I was writing about the state of the world around me, living on what feels like the brink of societal collapse while also seeing high excess everywhere.. all the sounds of the streets crept in, the blood and tears on the street, the echoing sirens in the early morning fog, soaked into the poetry and it became evident that LA is a hyper America. a place where violence (media and real life), excess and poverty, police exceptionalism & brutality, racism interact daily.. racism is a war on reason, so in my state of animosity I wrote Skid Row, I’m a disciple of the streets my spoken word and music on Skid Row mirror these conflicts that spill out over the western landscape like a painting of America frozen in a state of hyper real war.” — James Ferraro Review
WRITTEN BY FACT TEAM ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 2015
• It directly follows Hell, NYC, 3AM and began life as a series of poems.
• James Ferraro has revealed details of his next album, set to be released on Break World Records in November.
• Skid Row has been in the pipeline for a while, but as Thump reports, Ferraro has revealed that the album is a conceptual follow–up to Hell, NYC, 3AM that began as a series of poems.
• “It came first as words, then grew into becoming the lyrics of Skid Row. I was writing about the state of the world around me, living on what feels like the brink of societal collapse while also seeing high excess everywhere,” Ferraro explains.
• “All the sounds of the streets crept in — the blood and tears on the street, the echoing sirens in the early morning fog, soaked into the poetry — and it became evident that LA is a hyper–America. A place where violence (media and real life), excess and poverty, police exceptionalism & brutality, racism interact daily.”
• It follows War, a three–track release inspired by his experience using ‘Bravemind’, an immersive virtual reality exposure therapy system designed for Iraq war veterans suffering from post–traumatic stress disorder.
• Million dollar smiles, lattes & police brutality.
• Excess and fiscal ambiguity.
• Media violence & Lamborghini dreams, all under one surveillance video texture.
• The desert landscape, like tupperware housing digital smog.
• K9’s and glistening acid rain, wash away the sentient blood that stains the palm tree city.
• An Escalade® burns on the freeway.
• The drone of helicopters hum above head, in a desert backdrop commuters in traffic requite a speed of 20 mph pass the gleaming semiotic debris.
the sushi elite & the poor all anonymous in an unforgiving freeway fatality,
an undiscerning system.
• Man on the highway, through a walkie talkie speaker, barefoot on the slick asphalt.
• As the sunsets, the sky burns a fusion of metal and silhouetted palms.
and a hyper real civilization is rendered by it’s idealism, at war with the gravity of reality..
• Rendered by it’s traffic culture, it’s culture of police brutality and gang violence, media saturation and racism, it’s glamorization and solipsism, rendered by the tabloid of it self.
• “Skid Row started as a collection of poems, it came first as words, then grew into becoming the lyrics of Skid Row.. I was writing about the state of the world around me, living on what feels like the brink of societal collapse while also seeing high excess everywhere.. all the sounds of the streets crept in, the blood and tears on the street, the echoing sirens in the early morning fog, soaked into the poetry and it became evident that LA is a hyper America. a place where violence (media and real life), excess and poverty, police exceptionalism & brutality, racism interact daily.. racism is a war on reason, so in my state of animosity I wrote Skid Row, I’m a disciple of the streets my spoken word and music on Skid Row mirror these conflicts that spill out over the western landscape like a painting of America frozen in a state of hyper real war”. • http://www.factmag.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/James-Ferraro-176422539131753/
Partial discography:
• Alternative Soundtrack To: Scream In Blue Surf Video (2007, Pacific City)
• Discovery (2008, New Age Tapes)
• Postremo Mundus Techno–Symposium (2008, New Age Tapes)
• Multitopia (2008, Surveillance Media)
• Clear (2008, Surveillance Media)
• Physicalities Of The Sensibilities Of Ingrediential Strairways (2008, Eclipse Records)
• Body Fusion 1 (2009, Muscleworks Inc.)
• Body Fusion 2 (2009, Muscleworks Inc.)
• Rerex 1 (2009, Muscleworks Inc.)
• Rerex 2 (2009, Muscleworks Inc.)
• Pixarni (2009, Muscleworks Inc.)
• KFC City 3099: Pt.1 Toxic Spill (2009, Surveillance Media)
• Edward Flex Presents: Do You Believe In Hawaii? (2009, New Age Tapes)*
• Genie Head Gas In The Tower Of Dreams (Jesters Midnight Toys) (2009, New Age Tapes)
• Heaven’s Gate (2009, New Age Tapes)
• iAsia (2009, Muscleworks Inc.)
• Neo–Samurai Raver Gel (2009, Airhead Entertainment)
• Star Digital Theatre: Movies For P.T. Cruisers (2009, New Age Tapes)
• Feed Me (2010, Surveillance Media)
• Night Dolls With Hairspray (2010, Olde English Spelling Bee)
• Last American Hero (2010, Olde English Spelling Bee)
• On Air (2010, Muscleworks Inc.)
• FRKWYS07 (2011, Rvng Intl), with David Borden, Laurel Halo, Daniel Lopatin and Sam Godin.
• INHALE C — 4 $$$$$ (2011, b3BETUNES)
• Condo Pets (2011, Hippos in Tanks)
• Far Side Virtual (2011, Hippos in Tanks)
• Sushi (November 2012, Hippos in Tanks)
• Cold (March 2013, Hippos in Tanks)
• NYC, HELL 3:00 am (October 2013, Hippos in Tanks)
• Suki Girlz (2014)
• Skid Row (2015)
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James Ferraro — Skid Row (November 13, 2015) |
James Ferraro — Skid Row (November 13, 2015) • James Ferraro returns with conceptual album Skid Row. Location: Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Album release: November 13, 2015
Recorded: in his home of Los Angeles
Record Label: Break World Records
Genres: Electronic, experimental, ambient, lo–fi, avant–garde, vaporwave
Duration: 56:56
Tracks:
01. Burning Prius (For The World) 1:34
02. White Bronco 4:33
03. Pollution 3:48
04. Street Freak 4:28
05. Million Dollar Man 1:14
06. Thrash & Escalate 3:14
07. Skid Row 4:32
08. To Live And Die In L.A. 8:34
09. Rhinestones 5:33
10. Doctor Hollywood 6:54
11. 1992 4:19
12. Sentinel Beast 4:54
13. At The Beach 3:19
Description:
°°χ°° “Skid Row started as a collection of poems, it came first as words, then grew into becoming the lyrics of Skid Row.. I was writing about the state of the world around me, living on what feels like the brink of societal collapse while also seeing high excess everywhere.. all the sounds of the streets crept in, the blood and tears on the street, the echoing sirens in the early morning fog, soaked into the poetry and it became evident that LA is a hyper America. a place where violence (media and real life), excess and poverty, police exceptionalism & brutality, racism interact daily.. racism is a war on reason, so in my state of animosity I wrote Skid Row, I’m a disciple of the streets my spoken word and music on Skid Row mirror these conflicts that spill out over the western landscape like a painting of America frozen in a state of hyper real war.” — James Ferraro Review
WRITTEN BY FACT TEAM ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 2015
• It directly follows Hell, NYC, 3AM and began life as a series of poems.
• James Ferraro has revealed details of his next album, set to be released on Break World Records in November.
• Skid Row has been in the pipeline for a while, but as Thump reports, Ferraro has revealed that the album is a conceptual follow–up to Hell, NYC, 3AM that began as a series of poems.
• “It came first as words, then grew into becoming the lyrics of Skid Row. I was writing about the state of the world around me, living on what feels like the brink of societal collapse while also seeing high excess everywhere,” Ferraro explains.
• “All the sounds of the streets crept in — the blood and tears on the street, the echoing sirens in the early morning fog, soaked into the poetry — and it became evident that LA is a hyper–America. A place where violence (media and real life), excess and poverty, police exceptionalism & brutality, racism interact daily.”
• It follows War, a three–track release inspired by his experience using ‘Bravemind’, an immersive virtual reality exposure therapy system designed for Iraq war veterans suffering from post–traumatic stress disorder.
• Million dollar smiles, lattes & police brutality.
• Excess and fiscal ambiguity.
• Media violence & Lamborghini dreams, all under one surveillance video texture.
• The desert landscape, like tupperware housing digital smog.
• K9’s and glistening acid rain, wash away the sentient blood that stains the palm tree city.
• An Escalade® burns on the freeway.
• The drone of helicopters hum above head, in a desert backdrop commuters in traffic requite a speed of 20 mph pass the gleaming semiotic debris.
the sushi elite & the poor all anonymous in an unforgiving freeway fatality,
an undiscerning system.
• Man on the highway, through a walkie talkie speaker, barefoot on the slick asphalt.
• As the sunsets, the sky burns a fusion of metal and silhouetted palms.
and a hyper real civilization is rendered by it’s idealism, at war with the gravity of reality..
• Rendered by it’s traffic culture, it’s culture of police brutality and gang violence, media saturation and racism, it’s glamorization and solipsism, rendered by the tabloid of it self.
• “Skid Row started as a collection of poems, it came first as words, then grew into becoming the lyrics of Skid Row.. I was writing about the state of the world around me, living on what feels like the brink of societal collapse while also seeing high excess everywhere.. all the sounds of the streets crept in, the blood and tears on the street, the echoing sirens in the early morning fog, soaked into the poetry and it became evident that LA is a hyper America. a place where violence (media and real life), excess and poverty, police exceptionalism & brutality, racism interact daily.. racism is a war on reason, so in my state of animosity I wrote Skid Row, I’m a disciple of the streets my spoken word and music on Skid Row mirror these conflicts that spill out over the western landscape like a painting of America frozen in a state of hyper real war”. • http://www.factmag.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/James-Ferraro-176422539131753/
Partial discography:
• Alternative Soundtrack To: Scream In Blue Surf Video (2007, Pacific City)
• Discovery (2008, New Age Tapes)
• Postremo Mundus Techno–Symposium (2008, New Age Tapes)
• Multitopia (2008, Surveillance Media)
• Clear (2008, Surveillance Media)
• Physicalities Of The Sensibilities Of Ingrediential Strairways (2008, Eclipse Records)
• Body Fusion 1 (2009, Muscleworks Inc.)
• Body Fusion 2 (2009, Muscleworks Inc.)
• Rerex 1 (2009, Muscleworks Inc.)
• Rerex 2 (2009, Muscleworks Inc.)
• Pixarni (2009, Muscleworks Inc.)
• KFC City 3099: Pt.1 Toxic Spill (2009, Surveillance Media)
• Edward Flex Presents: Do You Believe In Hawaii? (2009, New Age Tapes)*
• Genie Head Gas In The Tower Of Dreams (Jesters Midnight Toys) (2009, New Age Tapes)
• Heaven’s Gate (2009, New Age Tapes)
• iAsia (2009, Muscleworks Inc.)
• Neo–Samurai Raver Gel (2009, Airhead Entertainment)
• Star Digital Theatre: Movies For P.T. Cruisers (2009, New Age Tapes)
• Feed Me (2010, Surveillance Media)
• Night Dolls With Hairspray (2010, Olde English Spelling Bee)
• Last American Hero (2010, Olde English Spelling Bee)
• On Air (2010, Muscleworks Inc.)
• FRKWYS07 (2011, Rvng Intl), with David Borden, Laurel Halo, Daniel Lopatin and Sam Godin.
• INHALE C — 4 $$$$$ (2011, b3BETUNES)
• Condo Pets (2011, Hippos in Tanks)
• Far Side Virtual (2011, Hippos in Tanks)
• Sushi (November 2012, Hippos in Tanks)
• Cold (March 2013, Hippos in Tanks)
• NYC, HELL 3:00 am (October 2013, Hippos in Tanks)
• Suki Girlz (2014)
• Skid Row (2015)
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