by Margaret Reges
Action Biker was formed in the winter of 2002 as the solo project of Sarah Nyberg Pergament. It was very much a side-project for Pergament; she spent quite a bit of her time over the course of the next six years working on other projects including Kissing Mirrors, Flow Flux Clan, and the Dreamers. When she wasn't working on other things, however, Pergament was chipping away at her own material, formulating a collection of chic, lo-fi, recordings that drew inspiration from numerous artists and cultural touchstones including Stereolab, Kraftwerk, soft rock, and eight-bit video games (Action Biker references a game for the Commodore 64). Action Biker's debut, Hesperian Puisto, was released on Friendly Noise in 2008.