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The Skaters are California’s Spencer Clark and James Ferraro. Best described as the moon-chantings of plains indians who found accidental gateways to other dimensions in rotted old trees filled with bioluminescent bacteria.

Over the past years, since meeting at an all-day improvisational noise jam when they both called San Diego home, Ferraro and Clark have developed, as you can plainly read, an intuitive, radically abstruse language when talking about their music and visual art, informed, in parts … , by mysticism and surrealism, in which subjective states of mind and the objective world are intentionally confused to the extent that both fuse into a single, undivided whole.

The end result is not what you would expect — i.e., a pretentious, painfully dry avant-garde free-noise. Quite the opposite, it’s a totally out there, vocal-dominated psychedelia, based, structurally speaking, on the open-ended drone heard in industrial music, minimalism, experimental electronics, folk, world music, and free jazz. And, like the best free jazz — the early, fiery stuff: Trane, Ayler, Sanders — the Skaters’ noise-drenched cosmic soul is driven by their need to, in the words of Ferraro, “grasp something that is beyond what you can verbalize.”

As of August 2009, there are over 60 solo works from Ferraro under aliases like The Wooden Cupboard, 8pashupatinath, Teotihuacan, Acid Eagle, Newage Panther Mistique, Dreams, Pan als Allgott Saturnia, 1977, Pan Dolphinic Dawn
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  • flumble2

    shouts out to dark rye bread, gambling in opha's shadow, palm shaper and receding smokebath

    26 May 10:03pm Reply

  • YoVultures

    Sk8er Boi (✿◠‿◠)

    11 May 8:09pm Reply

  • menyauthe

    there's a 98% chance [...] you [...] will be total shite [2]

    1 May 10:57pm Reply

  • mattimeus

    lmao who the fuck wrote this description "The end result is not what you would expect — i.e., a pretentious, painfully dry avant-garde free-noise. Quite the opposite, it’s a totally out there, vocal-dominated psychedelia, based, structurally speaking, on the open-ended drone heard in industrial music, minimalism, experimental electronics, folk, world music, and free jazz. And, like the best free jazz — the early, fiery stuff: Trane, Ayler, Sanders — the Skaters’ noise-drenched cosmic soul is driven by their need to, in the words of Ferraro, “grasp something that is beyond what you can verbalize.”"

    15 Jan 5:37pm Reply

  • machine_elves

    even if there's a 98% chance what you make will be total shite

    19 Aug 2012 Reply

  • machine_elves

    People need to [...] [smoke] [...] weed, [...] buy a microphone, reverb pedal, a cheap casio keyboard, and a four track and just make [music] yourself. Then [...] you'll be a more productive person. WOW! [4]

    19 Aug 2012 Reply

  • douluvurbody

    People need to [...] [smoke] [...] weed, [...] buy a microphone, reverb pedal, a cheap casio keyboard, and a four track and just make [music] yourself. Then [...] you'll be a more productive person. WOW! [2] [2]

    12 Aug 2012 Reply

  • castleinlead

    Mint sealed copy of Dispersed Royalty Ornaments LP on ebay... £1 starting bid: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dispersed-Royalty-Ornaments-THE-SKATERS-James-Ferraro-Vodka-LP-/290759639975?pt=UK_Records&hash=item43b2a003a7

    11 Aug 2012 Reply

  • tokyochorus

    it's "native americans" not "indians"

    9 May 2012 Reply

  • YoVultures

    Vvvvinde ddraepeing innscenecse,

    29 Apr 2012 Reply

  • RAHB

    I can dig it.

    13 Apr 2012 Reply

  • schloppypoppy

    nah, you guys pretty much got owned. but i love their moaning!

    18 Jan 2012 Reply

  • RealScreamo

    weed: the silent killer [3]

    16 Jan 2012 Reply

  • ut0

    People need to [...] [smoke] [...] weed, [...] buy a microphone, reverb pedal, a cheap casio keyboard, and a four track and just make [music] yourself. Then [...] you'll be a more productive person. WOW! [2]

    28 Dec 2011 Reply

  • triangleowl

    weed: the silent killer [2]

    1 Dec 2011 Reply

  • tokyochorus

    James Ferraro is a pretty cool guy

    3 Nov 2011 Reply

  • YoVultures

    Videos Skater Boi 2 shouts

    8 Sep 2011 Reply

  • GOTS_91

    ΩΩΩΩΩ

    28 May 2011 Reply

  • jakehamill

    @ akhkhazu Your version of being productive is probably eating cheetos while imagining you are count grishnackh, so wank off yah ass.

    10 May 2011 Reply

  • da1212914

    that being said, I hate the skaters.

    20 Apr 2011 Reply
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