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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
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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schloppypoppy wrote:
nah, you guys pretty much got owned. but i love their moaning!
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RealScreamo wrote:
weed: the silent killer [3]
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ut0 wrote:
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]
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triangleowl wrote:
weed: the silent killer [2]
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tokyochorus wrote:
James Ferraro is a pretty cool guy
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YoVultures wrote:
Videos Skater Boi 2 shouts
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ntdrvvv-vr wrote:
weed: the silent killer
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GOTS_91 wrote:
ΩΩΩΩΩ
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jakehamill wrote:
@ akhkhazu Your version of being productive is probably eating cheetos while imagining you are count grishnackh, so wank off yah ass.
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da1212914 wrote:
that being said, I hate the skaters.
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da1212914 wrote:
"People need to stop smoking so much weed, get off the fucking internet a few minutes and realize this is completely talentless art-student garbage. If you like this music just buy a microphone, reverb pedal, a cheap casio keyboard, and a four track and just make it yourself. Then at least you don't have to spend any more money on other talentless people's records. Plus you'll be a more productive person. WOW!" \\\\\\but really, though. I'm stoned. ////but isn't it inspiring that it's so easy to make? \\\\\but really, though. I'm SO HIGH /////it's gr8 that people don't like them. that's gr8 \\\\\cos s3ri0usl33 that means they won't become *~commodified~*
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haloedeyes wrote:
i recommend the skaters on shrooms. also, are they done?
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daleallen wrote:
"People need to stop smoking so much weed, get off the fucking internet a few minutes and realize this is completely talentless art-student garbage. If you like this music just buy a microphone, reverb pedal, a cheap casio keyboard, and a four track and just make it yourself. Then at least you don't have to spend any more money on other talentless people's records. Plus you'll be a more productive person. WOW!" Rather smoke weed and listen to The Skaters.
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elWacim wrote:
akhkhazu , you suck !
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JoelWright wrote:
http://www.viceland.com/music/2011/02/charles-berlitz-bondi-life-savers-club-mix/ Spencer from Skaters' mix
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akhkhazu wrote:
People need to stop smoking so much weed, get off the fucking internet a few minutes and realize this is completely talentless art-student garbage. If you like this music just buy a microphone, reverb pedal, a cheap casio keyboard, and a four track and just make it yourself. Then at least you don't have to spend any more money on other talentless people's records. Plus you'll be a more productive person. WOW!
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Prayer wrote:
floorcore
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Merzbore wrote:
lmao who's hyping The Skaters
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tomwood15 wrote:
www.jmtboardrooms.co.uk skate/snow/music
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TangerineStars wrote:
good hype group
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