kinny Wolves presents
JAMES FERRARO
BODYGUARD
SCHOOL TOUR
+ guests
Saturday 16th June
The Joinery, Stoneybatter, Dublin
Doors 7.30 / Adm €10
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JAMES FERRARO
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JAMES FERRARO is arguably the most talked-about (certainly the most theorised) underground artist of the past two years, confounding and delighting in equal measure with a litany of cassette, CD-R and vinyl releases under a bewildering number of aliases. His cracked psychedelia credentials extend back to 2004 when he formed the Skaters with fellow fruitcake Spencer Clark, but it’s his gonzo solo music that’s brought him the widest acclaim: and what a diverse body of work it is, taking in the sun-spoiled, shop-soiled blues drift of ‘Last American Hero’, the eddying New Age ambient of ‘Marble Surf’, the cathode-ray paranoia of ‘Citrac’, the no-fi minimal wave of ‘Chameleon Ballet’, the AM rock perversion of ‘Night Dolls With Hairspray’, the VHS warp of ‘Live At Slimer Beach’ and ‘Rapture Adrenaline’. Through a slyly humorous lens of Deleuzian theory and chaos magick, he focusses on the most vulgar and garish aspects of our recent cultural history: a hyperreality of advertising, self-help, porno, home fitness, speed-dieting, evangelism and fear-mongering. Last year, Ferraro released his most anticipated album to date, ‘Far Side Virtual’ on Hippos In Tanks. ‘Far Side Virtual’, on the face of it at least, attends to the fetishes of the late capitalism today: an iPad adorns its cover, and its track titles reference Google, Pixar, Starbucks, etc. It’s a radical departure from his previous work – there’s no distortion, no tape-hiss, no obvious underground signifiers. But long-time fans of his work needn’t despair, for this new cleanness and clarity to the Ferraro aesthetic hasn’t diminished the hallucinatory power of his music, and in fact may well have enhanced the power of the man with the moon-lit pompadour.
http://hipposintanks.net/
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BODYGUARD
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BODYGUARD is James Ferraro’s new gang/mob/cru… fleshing out his interpretations of radio tropes (autotune! Balloon noises! Bass so deep that it quakes!) with the help of a band. You can hear their recent, free mixtape ‘Silica Gel’ on their soundcloud below, whilst a studio album is readying for the Summer. With “Raiden – Blue Lights #NZT – 48,” Ferraro reaches dizzying late-evening-in-LA excess: repeating crystaline synths and the aforementioned overwhelmingly heavy bass with detached vocals for seven-and-a-half minutes. It’s dark and sleazy and borders on excessive, but it also seems like the pinnacle of the ideas he’s been exploring lately.
http://soundcloud.com/
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SCHOOL TOUR
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“Weird, wonderful and space-age electronica from the wilds of Donegal to send shivers down your spine. “Skating With Another” is music for trekking along icy plateaux and frozen hills in the dead of winter. – The Irish Times
