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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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luminous_insect wrote:
thumbs up to that description!
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gRandgeGORMAN wrote:
http://www.lastfm.ru/group/Belorussian+Noise ....присоединяемся!)
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wulfblud wrote:
"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.
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wulfblud wrote:
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..."
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celestialroad wrote:
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foodandliquor wrote:
i will never be able to listen to a band with such a name [2] realised that if they dropped the "the" from there name to just "skaters" then they'd have to be a better band.
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spilled_milk wrote:
hmmm
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ZSRR wrote:
http://www.subcultures-evs.com/subcultures_skaters.htm I lol'd
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szymonasty wrote:
great, ay
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wulfblud wrote:
you really should though
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Korbhiine wrote:
i will never be able to listen to a band with such a name
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-Eugene wrote:
well i assume they write all those descriptions. plus that wire interview
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dougbummy wrote:
listen faggot you dont know shit
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dougbummy wrote:
THE WORST
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obscureparadigm wrote:
"really contrived drone"? isn't all music contrived?
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samuelraphael wrote:
bunch of hacks.
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SixShooterSam wrote:
just saw that I had never actually left a shout for the skaters. Very weird.
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dhoopdreams wrote:
check out the ducktails OESB lp insert for some spencer clark-isms
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Donowho wrote:
been getting a lot of attention their way
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