Genie Head Gas in the Tower of Dreams (Jesters Midnight Toys)
by James Ferraro
- Type: Album
- Released: 2009-02-02
- Label: New Age Tapes
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:19:36
- Community rating: 3.58/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
One of many wildly prolific transmissions from the American experimentalist, this cassette release plunges into deeply surreal and degraded lo-fi soundscapes. Utilizing rudimentary synthesizers, tape hiss, and warped samples, Ferraro constructs a nostalgic, unsettling atmosphere akin to a decaying VHS tape. It is a defining piece of the esoteric hypnagogic pop movement that flourished in the late-2000s underground.
Genres
Descriptors: lo-fi, avant-garde, dissonant, ambient, deconstructed, sampling, experimental, atmospheric
Tracklist
- In The Outer Body Palace In The Tower Of Dreams In Ribbon And Light The Jester Awakes (0:41)
- Sunfestival/Tower of Dreams/Jester's Midnight Lamp (33:02)
- Jester's Dream Turbine/Life Flash In The Genie's Starsign Palace/Wind Of The Jesters Lamp/Spring Of Healers (28:50)
- Spirit Maze/Sun Card (14:21)
- Midnight Toys (2:42)
Credits
- James Ferraro - primary artist