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andrewcsmith on 08/27/2010 at 02:21PM
James Ferraro & Zac Davis
James Ferraro stitches together homemade samples, gleaned from synths or his own recordings (with the occasional snippet of Beavis & Butthead) turns them into atmospheric and periodic beds of surrealistic sound, and releases them on CD-R, cassette, or sometimes VHS. When he works with Spencer Clark (as The Skaters), they play into any recording device available, and the unreglated stream-of-consciousness jams that result tend to exist in under-100 piece runs.
A few months ago at ISSUE, Ferraro played with guitarist Zac Davis unleashing waves of heavily fortified vocal samples and recurring sequenced drum noises. The second half moves somewhere between psychedelia and doom metal, as Davis’s guitar lines swerve angularly among Ferraro’s layers of sound, like he’s narrating some kind of weird dream. I’ve put the whole set up here, so please enjoy.
