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James Ferraro - Four Pieces For Mirai flac album
  • Performer James Ferraro
  • Title Four Pieces For Mirai
  • Date of release 2018
  • Country UK
  • Style Experimental, Modern Classical, Ambient
  • Other formats APE ASF AA MP3 XM FLAC WAV
  • Genre Electronic
  • Size MP3 1697 mb
  • Size FLAC 1817 mb
  • Rating: 4.3
  • Votes: 876

Four Pieces of Mirai" is an EP of new music out May 18th on the artist's own label. Four Pieces of Mirai" represents the prelude of a large epic work about civilizational decline that spans across four releases due out this year. In this introductory prologue Ferraro reveals a dystopian present, a society in servitude to its digital network in a feudal bondage and Mirai a computer virus with a "denial of service" malware system that attacks "Internet of Things" devices. in essence disrupting the hold of the internet on humanity.

Four Pieces for Mirai (Overture) is an extended play by American musician James Ferraro. It was self-released on May 18, 2018 on his Bandcamp page and later to other music platforms. Ferraro also released the album on cassette. The EP is the overture to Ferraro's Four Pieces For Mirai series.

Four Pieces of Mirai is a stunning prelude to James Ferraro’s epic new work about civilisational decline, planned to span four releases this year. The initial transmission finds the preeminent bard and prescient se’er of the 21st Century establishing a dystopian present not dissimilar to our own, where society is in feudal bondage to digital networks, and the best resolution to the problem is a malware DDoS attack that disrupts the hold of the internet. Four Pieces of Mirai is a stunning prelude to James Ferraro’s epic new work about civilisational decline, planned to span four releases this year.

Being a fan of "old-school" New Age Tapes/ Muscleworks In. era Ferraro, as well as Far Side Virtual, I've definitely been very happy with Human Story 3 and this work as a return to form. That being said Mirai might be the best thing in his "hi-fi" era if not the best thing he's ever done. His conceptual execution here seems to have more clarity than ever. That could be said of Human Story 3 too but this EP has much more electronic production trickery and pure ear candy that appeals to my tastes on a base level. I could write essays about what the concept appears.

James Ferraro - Four Pieces For Mirai (Excerpt 3). 8 months ago 8 months ago. Ambient.

James Ferraro announces "Four Pieces of Mirai" tagged A Symphony For A Virus is an new EP out May 18th on the artist's own label. Four Pieces of Mirai" represents the prelude of a large body of work that spans across multiple releases. In this introductory prologue Ferraro reveals a dystopian present, a society in servitude to its digital network and its savior Mirai a computer virus with a "denial of service" malware system that attacks "Internet of Things" devices.

Tracklist

Fossils 1:24
Green Hill Cross 6:36
Butterfly 7:53
Mirai 8:39
Remnant 8:07
Gulf Gutters 3:54

Versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
MIRAI James Ferraro Four Pieces For Mirai ‎(Cass, EP, Ltd) Not On Label (James Ferraro Self-released) MIRAI UK 2018
none James Ferraro Four Pieces For Mirai ‎(6xFile, MP3, EP, 320) Not On Label (James Ferraro Self-released) none US 2018
none James Ferraro Four Pieces For Mirai ‎(6xFile, WAV, EP) Not On Label (James Ferraro Self-released) none US 2018


Talk about James Ferraro - Four Pieces For Mirai


Ericaz
Solid piece of soundtrack work by James. The mashing of modern classical music and synthetics is a hard thing to pull off, but this EP manages to effortlessly.
Yanthyr
Being a fan of "old-school" New Age Tapes/ Muscleworks Inc.-era Ferraro, as well as Far Side Virtual, I've definitely been very happy with Human Story 3 and this work as a return to form. That being said Mirai might be the best thing in his "hi-fi" era if not the best thing he's ever done. His conceptual execution here seems to have more clarity than ever. That could be said of Human Story 3 too but this EP has much more electronic production trickery and pure ear candy that appeals to my tastes on a base level. I could write essays about what the concept appears to be but most people who do that just end up sounding like bad, pretentious mimics of James' genius twitter feed so I'll let him speak for himself. I don't like comparing Ferraro to much ever but honestly this is kind of the aesthetic that I hoped Oneohtrix Point Never's Age Of was going to be (but that fell very, very, very short of expectations). It should be obvious from the amazing EP trailer video he made. We are living in the digital dark ages. The cybernetic dystopia he hinted at through the retrofuturistic lens of earlier hypnogogic-era works (Citrac, KFC City 3099, the K2 albums) has become a reality. This fully exposes the dystopian underside, or aftermath, of the utopian simulations seen on Far Side Virtual and Human Story 3, yet there is a thin glimmer of hope and escape (however with the sneaking feeling that even that may be a simulation). These aesthetics and concepts are explored with some of the most emotive and coherent, yet unabashedly abstract and disjointed, instrumental/acoustic work he's released yet. Should be another hint that those who dropped off with or after Far Side Virtual should tune back in at this point.
Ballardana
amazing review dude. this put my thoughts about the album into words perfectly
Umge
Brilliant piece of work until Gulf Gutters. Conceptual/intentional in its bad taste? Maybe. Good? No. The whisper faux-scream circa 2005 MySpace digi-grind mixed with the autotuned vocals is absolutely terrible and does nothin’ good for me personally. Everything else is top notch modern Ferraro. Interested to see how the entire work of albums plays out.