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Early​-​Century Sound Recordings

by Mark Gergis

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Woven locational recordings, radio and TV intercepts, cassette excerpts, environments and street music recorded on cassette, minidisc and videotape by Mark Gergis in Morocco, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Thailand and Laos between 1998 and 2013.

“Mark Gergis aka Porest returns with a collection of 20-year old locational recordings, radio and TV intercepts, cassette excerpts, environments and street music all expertly meshed up into a vivid sound journey from places that may never sound this way again" - Discrepant, 2019

credits

released December 6, 2019

Additional Jordan / Turkey recordings: Erik Gergis

Originally commissioned by Vicki Bennett / AV Festival for Radio Boredcast, 2012 / WFMU

Assembled in 2019 at Porestsound, London
for Sucata Tapes / Discrepant

Available on cassette from Sucata Tapes (SUC31) / Discrepant

www.discrepant.net/product/mark-gergis-early-century-sound-recordings/

Thanks: Gonçalo Cardoso

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Porest

Across decades, Porest has issued a trail of confounding agitprop sound art, post-globalized hate-pop, diabolical radio dramas and carefully rearranged realities.

Porest’s blatant embezzlement of human syntax and cultural misunderstanding broadcasts vital mixed messages.

Live performances integrate Porest’s music, performance and sound into a grand total sum that can’t be unseen.
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