James Ferraro paints a 21st century still life on his debut album for Hippos In Tanks. 

The record is called Far Side Virtual. Each song, a melodious reflection of the moment NOW, comes shrink-wrapped in HD fidelity as glossy as a 2012 Toyota Prius. 

Ferraro’s muse is some enigmatic modern metropolis, where the streets are as slick as i-Pads, and where the symphonies ring with Macbook message alerts. Through the steam rising from our latte mocha chinos, he invites us to gaze out at the dreamy disorientation of our digital lives. 

Imagine a Darius Milhuad-guided tour of 5th Avenue. Imagine a Whole Foods bakery that sells only cakes emblazoned with frosting replicas of Camille Pissarro's “Haying at Eragny.” These are the surreal utopias Ferraro brings to life with sixteen swirly-pop concoctions sure to sell out at the candy stores. So slip in your ear buds, and welcome to Far Side Virtual.


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James Ferraro - Global Lunch

Soaring electric cello over a woozy bubble of warm electronica.

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Tune in for this month’s episode of Francesca's Architextures, where she creates a musical journey inspired by a different art movement each month. 
In this instalment she goes deep into Surrealism. Emerging in Europe post WW2, Surrealists sought to alter the human experience, and unite the conscious and unconscious realms; the omnipotence of fantasy within the rational world, a “surreality”. Join her on her musical journey.

Join Francesca on her musical exploration this evening, featuring tracks by Pni Floyd, Gong, Pete Namlook and Suzanne Kraft among many others! 💫

Track List:
Daniel Lanois - The Deadly Nightshade
Hawkwind - The Awakening
Cocteau Twins - The Thinner the Air
Bombay Dub Orchestra - The Orange Terrace
Pete Namlook - Travelling without Moving (Track 11) Robert Leiner - Dream or Reality
Coti - Shoal
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene, Pt. 1
Morcheeba - Who Can you Trust?
Gong - A PHP’s Advice (Gong with the Wind Remix, the Orb) The System - Pendy! You’re In Some Awful Danger
Yello - Blue Green
Tim Hecker - Ghost Writing Pt. 2
King Crimson - The Sheltering Sky
Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
Suzanne Kraft - Renee Sleeping

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Architextures 008 by Francesca - Surrealism

I feel like I'm finally nearing the end of production on my album Evergreen; everything is recorded, and now it's just a question of final mixing and mastering.  Here's a more or less final version of the song that started it all, Sail or Anchor.  Fun fact: much of the percussion is recordings of Ann Druyan's brain waves from the Voyager golden record, combined with tiny (< 1 second) snippets of ASMR videos ripped from Youtube.

Lyrics:

I can't describe 
what I see in this light 
with my eyes wide open
Almost divine 
so real and so right
so loud
unspoken
And it falls on me
soft like a frosty morning
Blurs the outline
it's too close to be seen
like the act of blinking
Hard to define
It's just a thing that you are
Without even thinking

And you'll always be what I need, be it sail or anchor
I'd gladly fight so hard for this love, but you make it easy

If you can't get by
on your own anymore
then you know that you can
Look to your side
and you'll know that I'm there
and you know that you can

Call on me to be what you need, either sail or anchor
I'd gladly fight so hard for this love but you make it easy

Evergreen Gullfoss

Sail or Anchor

From the album Legal Coffee, now available. Support the artist and label: hairsablazin.bandcamp.com/album/legal-coffee

Legal Coffee

Gutter Birds

New electronic project by keyboardist and producer from Phoenix. 

Check me out on my personal Bandcamp below for my past work, or the other Soundcloud link below for my "in-progress" material, sketches, and more!

Gutter Birds

One More Time Ago