sound.delirium//artists

    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

    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".