Remix Artist and songwriter from Cleveland, Ohio.
Poro, meaning “good friend” in Pidgin (Tok Pisin), is a musical project based out of Cleveland, Ohio consisting of members Mark Porostosky (present multi-instrumentalist in The Lighthouse and the Whaler), Ryan Walker (fellow TLATW member), and Susan Ulle. Together the band creates an eclectic Indie Pop sound drawing influences from the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Phoenix and Copeland, with a sincere melodic flair all their own.
In 2016, after six years of writing and touring with TLATW, Mark began creating Poro with material and concepts he had been writing. In early 2017 Treat Yourself was released with the support of former drummer Thomas Ulle and fellow TLATW member Ryan Walker. The lyrically themed self-confidence EP was later named one of the “15 Best Cleveland Album and EP releases of the year” (Cleveland.com). The success of Treat Yourself continued in 2018 as “Embrace,” the album’s most orchestral and anthemic song, was used in the 42nd Cleveland International Film Festival’s trailer; for which Poro also performed at the festival’s closing ceremony.
In August of 2018, the band released the Eyes EP, a reflection of different perspectives. In 2020, Mark began to work on the new vision for the project --- creating completely unique indie-pop remixes from vocal stems of original songs of other artists. These alternate versions of the songs (a.k.a "remixes") are meant to spark a community of artists through the individual mutually shared projects. The remixes are a way to give great songs another chance to be heard; content that the original artists' shares, but did not have to create. New remixes are being worked on by Poro constantly and are set to come out every other month.