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OVRO & NIKO SKORPIO - Live in Placard # 7

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Some Place Else SPECD04032 Release Year: 2004 Note: numbered ed. 500 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €12.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info NIKO SKORPIO ist der Mann hinter dem finnischen Label SOME PLACE ELSE; er produziert hier stark effektierte digitale Soundscapes aus Rhythmen und Samples, teils melodisch und fast schon dubbig, dann wieder orientalisch oder ganz im Digilärm versinkend.... abwechslungsreich und zwischen Hektik und Ruhe mäandernd... bei OVRO (Newcomerin ebenfalls aus Finnland) findet eine interessante Durchmischung von ihrer gesprochenen Sprache & einem sehr geräuschhaften Untergrund statt, mit z.T. genialen Sounds... sehr lohnenswerte CD für Entdecker ! “In a mostly boys controlled world of music and laptops, the few girls doing so get more and more attention. People like Kaffe Matthews, AGF and Maja Ratkje are already well-known, and upcoming stars are Iris Garrelfs and Ovro are upcoming. Music by Ovro has been discussed before (see Vital Weekly 395) and here she shares and album of live material with Niko Skorpio. Like I wrote before there are similarities between the sound of Ovro and AGF in a way that both deal with vocals, or maybe rather spoken words. Poetic electronic music. It's hard to decipher what these poems are about, but hearing the somewhat darker undercurrents in her music I bet it's not a happy worldview. The musical setting is mostly on the quieter side of electronics. After her live recording follows an improvised piece with Niko Skorpio, which combines the best of both worlds, but less the vocals. Niko Skorpio is an established artist on the Some Place Else label, and he uses sampling to a great extend with noise elements and slow rhythms. When Skorpio puts his Reptiljan cap on, things turn grim with a bunch of laptop grindcore. Two examples are enclosed here too. It makes the entire disc into a well-done, well varied bunch of electronic music by two of the more promising artists from Finland.” [FdW / Vital Weekly]