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 OVO is a project of music and life. OVO are Stefania Pedretti (also singer and guitar player of Allun) and Bruno Dorella (ex Wolfango, Bugo, Lava, now involved in many bands and boss of Bar La Muerte records), often joined by friends that belong to many different musical scenes. Bruno and Stefania basically started this project to stay together: they were used to follow their partner's different bands on tour, but they were also sick of the problems that every band has connected with the members lives, works, studies. It was natural for them to form an open but autonomous duo, free to tour and record with or without the collaboration of other musicians. A lifestyle project, so. Or the last frontier of DIY, or the maximum freedom level.
The big number of gigs played by OVO in their brief existence testifies about it.
The spirit is: play everywhere, with no particular technical or economical requests, just for the pleasure of playing music.
- The recoring of their first cd "Assassine" needed four different sessions, one for each guest musician, each one consisting in about one hour of free improv, methodic destructuration, no wave remembrances. They choose the craziest and most surprising tracks, no overdubs (all the sessions were recorded on Dat).
We'd like to keep OVO if not outside the Market rules, at least very free inside of them.
- Starting from december 2000, gigs and tours follow one after the other:
- December 2000, Italy and Switzerland with the american kings of noise Cock ESP
- Janaury 2001, Italy and Switzerland with the czech tribal improvisers Zabloudil
- February to April 2001, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Italy with NNY
- April 2001, noise festivals in Italy and Slovenia where they present the noise performance Violin Pain.
- May 2001 Italy with the US jazzy postrock band Rollerball
- July 2001 anarchopunk, avantgarde and noise festivals all through Italy, presenting Violin Pain, also in non-conventional venues like records shops and art galleries.
- September 2001, USA tour, joining the Phi Phenomena travelling festival on the East Coast as the only european band, and touring the West Coast again with Rollerball.
- April 2002, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia with Rollerball again.
- October 2002 Italy and Slovenia with Bill Horist
- December 2002 southern Italy
- April and May 2003 Germany, Denmark and France
- May and June 2003 Italy
- September 2003 Slovenia, Germany and Italy
- December 2003 huge tour in Italy and split cd with KK Null
- May 2004 new album “Cicatrici” and european tour (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Slovakia, Austria)
- September 2004 tour in Spain and Portugal
- October-November- December 2004 tour in the US and Mexico
- May 2005 tour in the US
- April 2006 the new cd/lp "Miastenia" will be out on LOAD records
- April-May 2006 european tour (Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, France)
- For the Phi Phenomena tour every band put a track on the Phi Phenomena compilation: OVO put a track recorded during their second gig, in Geneva. It is 55 seconds long, the whole gig was 9 minutes.
- In May 2002 two new cd's come out : the minialbum "Vae Victis" and the split cd with Rollerball called "My First Cowboy". The first cd celebrates the tour in Greece, Tukey, Bulgaria, Italy and Macedonia, it was recorded the day after the end of the tour, after a month and a half touring, so the feeling of the lineup was really strong and special. What comes out is a sort of freeform grindcore or speed no wave, or as we like to call it "chaos core". The short length and the powerful impact well represent the feeling of the whole tour.
- The split with Rollerball, on the other hand, well represents the spirits of the many gigs OVO and Rollerball played together in Europe and United States, with the Rollerball's members being also guests with OVO, creating a more jazzy, psychedelic, reflexive kind of improvisation. A crawling darkness slowly takes the place of the fury of the first gigs. The just-one-day session (recorded in Portland, Oregon) that brought to this cd was made to record a 2-3-songs-each split, but we were all so happy of the total result that we decided to make a full split album, that actually sounds like just one band.
- In the same period the italian avant-pop band R.U.N.I. releases a remix cd of their lucky "Il Cucchiaio Infernale" album, and the result is "La Zuccha Polmonate", and the OVO's "Infernale Remix" is a noise collage that closes the cd in a devastating mood.
- In november 2002 the slovakian label Where the Late Birds Sang releases the OVO/Hermit split cd-r. The Canadian Hermit is one of the most well known noise artists, and he was already a guest on our first cd "Assassine". Both tracks were recorded live, the OVO one was recorded in Rome, during an electronic festival on the roof of a house, and it consists of the Violin Pain performance.
- During 2003 OVO toured Europe and recorded their new album that will be out in march 2004. Their live shows are now focused just on the music of the duo (Bruno and Stefania) and on the great videos of SightProblem.
- In the beginning of 2004 OvO and KKNull (legendary guitarist of ZeniGeva and collaborator of John Zorn, Mike Patton, Steve Albini, Thurstone Moore, Jim O’Rourke, Otomo Yoshihide, Masonna, Merzbow, Hanatarash…) released a split minicd 3”.
- In may 2004 the new album “Cicatrici” is out, and it’s a revolution for the band, passing from a 100% improv style to a half improv half composed one. A whole european and american tour has been done during 2004 in order to present this album worldwide.
- In early 2005 they release a split 7" with the italian sensational band With Love. After a few months With Love signed for GSL and OvO signed for Load records.
- In april 2006 their 5th album, the first on Load records, is out. They tour Europe in may and the US in october.
DISCOGRAFIA :
Assassine ( cd , 2001 Bar La Muerte )
Vae Victis ( cd , 2002 Bar La Muerte )
My First Cowboy ( split con Rollerball , cd , 2002 Bar La Muerte / TMR - USA )
Cicatrici (cd, 2004 Bar La Muerte / Ebria- Italia, ediz. USA Radon/Sunship)
Miastenia (cd, 2006 Load USA)
SINGOLI:
OvO / Hermit ( split cdr , 2003 Where Late the Birds Sang - Slovakia )
OvO / KK Null (split cd 3”, 2004 Bar La Muerte / Sunship - USA)
OvO/Tremor (split 7”, 2004 Cold Coffeine Addict - Germany)
OvO/With Love (split 7", 2005 Luna records- Italy)
OvO/Cock ESP (split 7”, Little Mafia, USA)
LIVE albums:
Live in Amerika (tape, 2004 Imvated - Belgium)
Live at CPA, Firenze (free downloadable webalbum www.ctrlaltcanc.tk
COMPILATIONS :
"Copi" on Phi Phenomena ( 2001 cd etichette varie - USA )
"Infernale Remix" on La Zuccha Polmonate (2002 cd Wallace/Bar La Muerte/Beware! - Italia)
“Pain Will Find a Way (Elephant Woman Mix)” on Hurts So Good (2003 cd V/VM - UK)
“Qui e Là” on Simply Good Taste ( 2003 cd Gulcher - USA)
« In Ginocchio » on Nillacat compilation (2003 cd Nillacat - USA)
“ Still Love You” on Emil & Friends compilation (2004 cd EE Tapes - USA)
“ Ukiyoe” on Industrial Cottage Volume 3 compilation (2004 cd Humbug - Norway)
"Abisso" on Ghirigori compilation (2005 Pezzente Prod. - Italy)
"La Saponatrice di Ferrara" on Basemental compilation (2005 cd Basemental- Italy)
"Bufera di Neve" on "To Live...Before the Justice Comes" (cd Alle Kozze/Hellnation/RadioRiot, Italia 2005)
"L'Anno del Cane (Alt Version)" on "Breaking Down The Barriers" (2005 Afe records, www.aferecords.com )
"Suoni Lontani" on A Gift for Mario Biserni compilation ( cdr e web AFE/Wallace/Ctrlaltcanc/GreySparkle/MoriremoTutti/TraZeroeUno/Sine3pm/Tanderion 2006)
"Ombre Nell'Ombra" on Eelegy Sampler 39 (cd with Elegy Magazine, France 2006)
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