A tribe of bohemian faeries from Central Park in New York, fly all the way down to Brazil, where they take over a lush old, abandoned house. Once inside, they gather every little object they can use to drum on and tequila, and gather in a circle in the parlor room where they being to play, drum, drink, flirt and fornicate. In the center of the circle they pile a stack of pulp detective novels and dime store romances, and as their soiree gets going, they tear out the pages of the novels and reassemble them into a new order, a new story that starts to replace the room surrounding them, and whose characters they slowly become as the music spins and sprinkles on about them.

Mocxha Lab Subduction

A tribe of bohemian faeries from Central Park in New York, fly all the way down to Brazil, where they take over a lush old, abandoned house. Once inside, they gather every little object they can use to drum on and tequila, and gather in a circle in the parlor room where they being to play, drum, drink, flirt and fornicate. In the center of the circle they pile a stack of pulp detective novels and dime store romances, and as their soiree gets going, they tear out the pages of the novels and reassemble them into a new order, a new story that starts to replace the room surrounding them, and whose characters they slowly become as the music spins and sprinkles on about them.

One of the fairies, pausing from the reality shift, picks up this new book, opening it to read the bio on the inside cover. It says, strangely enough: Subduction is written by Mocha Lab, the moniker of New York based composer and producer Paul Shapera, and sung by Serbian singer Milena Jelic. The two met soon after Milena won the US green card lottery, promptly left Serbia waving a tearful goodbye to the members of the electronic jazz collective Modern Quartet, and, arriving sans home in New York City, wound up on Paul’s couch for several weeks. Paul, who spends most of his time writing and producing music for both his own projects as well as those of various MCs, indie filmmakers, and dance and theater choreographers, heard her sing and decided to do a track featuring her voice in a very organic sounding electronic frame heavily decorated with latin and jazz inlay. 6 months after beginning this one track, the album Subduction was finished.”

Thus satisfied with this fanciful bio, the fairy returns to the gathering, stealing mixed glances at the others, some sweet and playful, some seductive, some lost and melancholy, and some simply a quiet longing for a lost memory she’ll never recall.