MOOD NOOSE

"A few hand-drumming buskers in New York City have discovered the aural effects of extra-long subway tunnels. Low and fuzzy around the edges, their reverberations envelop passers-by, transforming the slog to the train into an otherworldly immersion in percussive sound. The latest Porest release, Mood Noose, features decaying-cassette drum samples that mimic this subway echo chamber. The record collapses the distinction between sounds that are far away in space and those that are far away in time, and suspends us in the overlap. We dangle there, nowhere and everywhere at once. Porest is the solo moniker of Negativland/Sun City Girls co-conspirator Mark Gergis, who has generated several Sublime Frequencies compilations, most recently Choubi-Choubi: Folk and Pop Sounds of Iraq. He also performs in Oakland collective Mono Pause/Neung Phak (the latter incarnation plays Southeast Asian Psych Fusion, influenced by his participation in Sublime Frequencies' Molam: Thai Country Groove." www.dustedmagazine.com