POREST
Across decades, Porest (aka Mark Gergis) has issued a trail of confounding agitprop sound art, tilted pop,  diabolical radio dramas and carefully rearranged realities on the Abduction, Seeland and Resipiscent labels. Porest’s blatant embezzlement of human syntax and cultural misunderstanding broadcasts vital mixed messages. Collaborations have included: Aavikko (Finland) Sun City Girls (USA), and Negativland (USA) among others. Gergis was a co-founder of the long-running experimental Bay Area music and performance collective Mono Pause – as well as its offshoot Neung Phak, performing inspired renditions of southeast Asian musics. Since 2003, with the Sublime Frequencies label, an ethnographic music and film collective out of Seattle, Washington – and more recently, with his own record label – Sham Palace, Gergis has shared decades of research and scores of archived international music, film footage and sound recordings acquired during extensive travels in the Middle East, South East Asia and elsewhere.

Nashazphone is an Algerian/Egyptian record label based in Cairo with an eclectic focus spanning mutant jazz, punk, noise, psychedelic, and experimental works from worldwide artists such as Sun City Girls,Matthew Bower (Sunroof! and Hototogisu), Porest, Elg, Smegma, Costes and Blood Stereo. On a local level, the label is issuing vital live and studio recordings from the contemporary Egyptian scene including the debut release of synthesizer maverick Islam Chipsy. A striking attention to aesthetic and artistic detail has yielded a crucial catalog of vinyl issues on Nashazphone since 2006.

and Porest's “The Parallel Broadcasts” (exclusive program created for WFMU’s “OPTIMIZED” curated by Vicki Bennett) can be heard here: 
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/66362

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