Member Since: 9/28/2006
Band Website: porest.com
Band Members:
Mark Gergis Mordechai Vanunu, Victor Jara, Kabar and several young boys
Influences: FINANCULA, Al Qaeda fakery, cigarettes, idiots, skull fracturing sounds from here to Eastern Anatolia, clear on down through the forsaken Levant and into the hidden Iraqi and Persian interior....and well beyond the great genre divide of experimental, boy noise, peerless pop, medium wave, no soul, rock, dirt, children's folk crunk, ETC. Telstar 5 Free to Air Satellite from Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Burma (Myanmar), Qatar, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Jordan, Sudan, Somalia, Romania, Iran, Kurdistan, Turkey and Oklahoma.
Sounds Like: A few select people dying at this very moment or a giant school bus with tinted windows. Also sounds like instrumental songs of political sabotage. For hundreds of years, Oakland, California's POREST has exploited reckless composition, performance and worldwide documentation via multi-instrumentation, field recordings, perverse cut-uppers, dirty bomb audio downers and whatever else gets in the way. On full-length albums released by Seeland, Resipiscent and Abduction records, Porest has issued a confounding collection of music and audio works ranging from mangled pop and surrealist radio-dramas to diabolical protean ear-wash. Gergis is a contributor to the Sublime Frequencies label, producing collections of rare music, film, field and regional radio recordings from the Middle East, Asia and beyond. He is also a founding member of the shape-shifting Bay Area group MONO PAUSE and its Southeast Asian permutation, NEUNG PHAK, among others. ****Out now on Abduction Records: TOURRORISTS! cd***On Resipiscent: MOOD NOOSE cd *****On Seeland: PRUDE JUICE for the HERITAGE SWINGER cd. ============================================================
=Porest isn't a political band watching an indigenous wife-beating with a privileged pair of elitist binoculars. Negate genre and dogma by avoiding both, without denying either.
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The previous Porest myspace site was deleted without warning on September 28, 2006 for "violations" (see the blog "ISRAEL:Grand Finale" for more info) And now, here, it lives again.....There's always porest.com in case I'm shut down again.. Description:
Record Label: Abduction, Resipiscent, Seeland
Type of Label: Major