Just had a future shock listening to Far Side Virtual. Not in the same way as I did when it came out, the dawning realisation that the 90s could be appropriated I'm this way, but the dawning realisation that 2011 was actually a long time ago now and that this aesthetic has since been mined so much as to making the record sound like a fairly normal modern electronic album.
― frame casual (dog latin), Sunday, 24 February 2019 12:34 (five years ago) link
I like that Ferraro mines the sounds that everyone else stays away from - I think Skid Row captures what the early 90s really sounded like better than any other similar nostalgia project. It's not always pretty.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
oh man I just realized that Ferraro's last 4-5 albums are just a kinda bad version of Zappa's Jazz From Hell
― frogbs, Friday, 17 April 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
wow this jazz from hell record is amazing, can't believe i'd never heard this. thank you!
― tomorrow, Friday, 17 April 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
I love how he uses pitch bending in his older stuff. powerful emotional content. it’s cool on last american hero how the bending of the midi piano makes it kinda morph into a guitar and back
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 May 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
I haven't really dug anything he's done since Human Story 3 but his recent release Terminus is pretty good. sounds like the soundtrack to a first-person horror game that runs on Windows 98. first time in a while he's been able to match one of his concepts
― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 23:42 (three years ago) link
Maybe Ferraro should just cover that Zappa Synclavier album you mentioned above a la Gus Van Sant redoing Psycho: James From Hell, bam
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Thursday, 11 February 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
this genware series is sounding pretty cool:https://jjamesferraro.bandcamp.com/album/genware-iii-neuralpaint
― brimstead, Friday, 26 January 2024 20:52 (two months ago) link