After an hour of the best of rock and experimental from then and now, we will turn our attention to some of the many solo projects of James Ferraro, half of the underground’s finest ooze channel-the skaters. Mr. Ferraro has been making a magic mist of other worldly tape hiss for years now. His self produced cassettes and cdr’s are not merely obscured sounds produced for the sake of being obscure. He has other motivations for creating new realities.
“My idea is to translate effectively both the hellish condition of impoverished communities and also the abstract image of poverty mainly those in which I have been immersed in most of my life. I am naturally inclined to do this to pay homage!! I have seen firsthand the effects of poverty and the mental conditioning of those enslaved by this sort of economic system. I am in debt I feel to translate this message as it is quite a universal one as we are all displaced people alienated I think from ourselves and our land. I am naturally inclined to translate the aura of poverty that exists in black impoverished communities as this is my birthplace. I believe black people in America are still displaced slaves and encouraged by social laws to stay slaves. A slave mentality encourages mental slaves and volunteer slaves!! Yet this condition is a very universal thing and can be translated in a broader sense. We are all displaced disillusioned creatures now!! All of us slaves. The truth exists in both, all the bliss, all the agony and all the silver thrones…”
James Ferraro
from Matthew Bower’s
“Eternity’s Diamond Prison System: The Skaters And Their Attempt To Decipher/Tune In To/Declaim The True Sound Of The Universe In All Its Rich Nowness With No Posture No Musical Style No Past And No Future: Eternal Now” or “The Rubberstamp Of Death”
copyright © David Keenan/Volcanic Tongue
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