Finland's Some Place Else Records will be releasing a special hand-numbered 500 copy limited edition CD of Ovro and Niko Skorpio performing together live at the Placard #7 Headphone Festival in Helsinki on May 22, 2004. The details:
Ovro starts quietly and calmly, gradually raising volume and tension. Her brand of uneasy listening combines digital sound manipulation, creepy soundscapes and ominous(?!?) vocals to invoke a multitude of feelings and a view to a world where not everything is right.
The artists change on the fly, and their sets are welded seamlessly together by an improvised piece performed together as SkorpiOvro.
Niko Skorpio presents his mix of dark ambience, sample-ridden psychedelia and heavy broken rhythms in a dynamic, morphing form. Towards the end Niko invokes his twisted digital-grindcore alter ego Reptiljan that vomits a short, fierce attack of blastbeats and breaks & noise. Reptiljan provided the sounds for what was perhaps the first ever incident of stage-diving in the history of Placard!
Placard is a new kind of festival where people come with their headphones to sit down and actually listen to the music. The venues also provide MP3 or Ogg Vorbis live streams to other listening rooms ("placards") out there. Placard #7 was a three-month, non-stop, self-organising festival of headphones listening taking place across the globe and streamed online. The particular event where this recording was captured, was held in an apartment in Helsinki, with listening slots in France, Belgium and Italy.
Ordering info: http://www.someplaceelse.net/releases/?id=specd04032