Altered Zones

Around the time Rose Quartz first mentioned Monopoly Child Star Searches on AZ, I remember running into Zack from Greatest Hits at a house party and asking him whether he thought Mr. James Ferraro was the man behind the latest hypnagogic mystery project to emerge from the Olde English Spelling Bee/Outer Limits/Pacific City gang. As I predicted, he said yes; Ferraro, also present, looked down at the ground and said he had no idea what I was talking about.

The first thing I learned from this new promotional video for Bamboo For Two, out this week on OESB, was that neither of them was really lying. MCSS is the brainchild of one Spencer Clark-- aka. Charles Berlitz, Black Joker, and Vodka Soap, and 1/2 of the Skaters with Ferraro-- but his new LP rallies together a supergroup of tape deck bandits that includes Dolphins Into The Future’ Lieven Martens, Orphan Fairytale’s Eva Van Duren, and Ferraro himself. The second was that Spencer Clark is a bit of a wild card. September’s Make Mine, Macaw CD-R sounded like black metal on quaaludes; this one sounds like a monkey-romp through the jungle, and is presented as an ode to parrot love. (via Visitation Rites)

Bamboo For Two is out now on OESB

--Previously:

MP3: Monopoly Child Star Searchers: "Untitled"