OvO Miastenia Label: Load Release Date: 04/18/06

I feel so helpless when trying to review a noise/experimental Album. In attempt to explain sounds I’ve never heard before, with words I’ve never used before, I just end up getting frustrated. I find the only way around this quagmire is to state the facts and describe what I hear best, and leave the rest up to you. So literally…
 
Facts:
Ovo is are a girl-guy duo from Milan, Italy.
They started the band to keep their relationship together, using the band as a means to follow their partner’s different bands on tour.
Stephania Pedretti sings and is a violinist/guitarist
Bruno Dorella Drums on various instruments in various times.
He also owns and runs Bar La Muerte Records.
Miastenia is Ovo first release in the states, but they have released approximate four cds, three 7’s, a single 3” cd, one CDR and a tape on various labels, in various countries.
The spirit of Ovo is: “play everywhere, with no particular technical or economical requests, just for the pleasure of playing music”  

Sounds
Ovo- Miastenia’s definitely a fits in with the rest of Load Records catalogue. They mix Unnerving Noise, Metallic Clangs, Fast, near Metal style drumming, doomy sections, and free time improv bits all into an experimental soup. All these things are held together by Stephania Pedretti’s vocals, which never repeat an idea. She would do Mike Patton proud with the number of vocal acrobatics oo this album. She emits guttural growls, high-pitched screams, wavering falsettos, paranoid whispers, even some singing and about a thousand other sounds, that I don’t have the vocabulary to describe. She comes off as if Kim Gordon’s Psycho sister had a love child with Yamatsuka Eye.
 
If that’s all too long to read then here’s the short version:
This sounds like Deerhoof in the apocalypse.

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