Altered Zones

I was hoping to see Jim Ferraro play at the Harald Grosskopf Synthesist/Re-Synthesist performance at the Unsound Festival last month, but he never showed up. This did not surprise me in the least, though do I remember being puzzled when I inquired after his whereabouts, and somebody told me that he was not in New York City at all, or in LA, but somewhere in the middle of the Great American Desert. This could have been a fiction, through I like to think that Ferraro recorded Far Side Virtual, his forthcoming LP for Hippos In Tanks, during that lapse into the steaming white void. That's right, Ferraro's just signed on to a new stable. We don't have much information on the album other than the release date ("coming soon to a summer near you"), but Ferraro did tell us what he plans to do with the profits: "All the proceeds from Far Side Virtual are going towards my facial reconstructive plastic surgery, my new face will be fashioned after CCTV's satellite queen, Princess Diana. and you will be able to see it live in concert on the Far Side Virtual World Tour.. Always coca cola." --Emilie Friedlander, Altered Zones

Check out a short biography of "the man with the moon-lit pompadour" on the Hippos site. Ferraro also has a re-issue of his On Air double album slated for release on Underwater Peoples June 3rd, and is rumored to be producing Ariel Pink's next album