James Ferraro - Last American Hero

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5...according to our Business Lady on Fri 05 Mar, 2010.

James Ferraro returns for more hypnogogic fun with 'Last American Hero', a musical vision I am more than willing to indulge in. Essentially made up of three tracks (one long tune on the A-side and two on the B-side), side A's 'F-150 as Energy Drink Worship Temple/F-150 Night Eros at the Highway's End' is definitely a favourite Ferraro composition. The soundtrack to some long out of print American road movie or the instrumental demo of a mid eighties Fleetwood Mac tune, it's hard to say but this tune fits my mood perfectly and is a great example of Ferraro's theoretical style actually working in practice. The simple bass drum pulse, sustained synths and wild ambient guitar solo's are everything you'd expect from a Ferraro induced 80's childhood flashback (yes, I'm a child of the Eighties and I can relate to these ideas of lost/dreamed up images/music creeping into the subconscious) and easily the most focused track I've heard from him so far. The B-side continues the theme of electronic based soundtrackery with 'Blacktop Tumble Weed: Empty Monster Energy Drink Can', a less focused but ultimately satisfying example of peaceful electronic tranquility and the final track, 'Headlines (Access Hollywood)' see Ferraro messing with some weird electronic slide guitar sound which is mental. 'Last American Hero' comes with all the elements I've come to expect from a Ferraro release, the odd tape cuts, cryptic sleeve notes and a wild artwork, all of which I find very satisfying. Oh James, if you're reading your own press... I've got your 'Thunder in Paradise' videos lad... Come pick 'em up next time your in the Leeds area.

Edition of 450 copies vinyl reissue of a great cassette album from James Ferraro, originally released on Dreamtime Taped Sounds, a series of meditations on American concepts of heroism and freedom as refracted via MTV, Hollywood and various black magic marketing strategies. Starts off with an unexpected slow avant blues guitar piece that picks up organ and synth to sound uncannily like early Charalambides before breaking into an electric boogie that serves to conflate notions of authentic outlaw forms and clichéd rebel shorthand while sounding totally fucked up. Comes with an MP3 download coupon: “"THE ENERGY ENHANCED GLADIATOR WISHES TO MERGE AS ONE WITH HIS GIRL. HIS TONGUE RING GLOWS UNDERNEATH THE RENO MOON. HER SILVER SILENCE BEGS FOR HIS PLEASURE. HE CAN HEAR HER CALL DEEP WITHIN HIS BEING, AS THE DESERT CLOUDS ROLL ON OVER HIS METAL SLAVE. SHE SUBMITS TO BE PARKED AND THE SHADOW OF LOVE IS AMOUNG THEM. A BLACKTOP TUMBLE WEED ROLLS AROUND THE DRIED TAR ONLY A DREAM OF IT’S MASTER BLOWING IN THE WIND. FROM THE HAND OF THE GLADIATOR WHO NOW HUNTS FOR A DREAM, A FLAT SCREEN DREAM. A GROUP OF HUMANS PRESUMED LOST FOR THE LAST DECADE AND A HALF WERE FOUND ALIVE CAMPING OUT IN THE BACK RECESSES OF A COSTCO SUPER MARKET. AFTER BEING LOST DEEP INSIDE OF THE COSTCO BUILDING FOR WEEKS WITHOUT ANY OUTSIDE CONTACT, THEY FINALLY STARTED THE SETTLEMENT OF "NO FEAR". The front cover (JUDGE JUDYITE IN SODOM AND GOMORRAH) represents the programmed citizen and the process of it’s logical sequence as visible from the working creative inner ego of the program (the living human host’s perspective) in a snapshot form in the empty world created by the MODERN Gomorrah temple BEST BUY™ plaza center. The back cover represents the same idea but this one exhibits the inner head perspective of the "LIQUID ENERGY ENHANCED GLADIATOR IN THE DIGITAL COLOSSEUM A.G.* *After Google " – James Ferraro

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