OvO (Italy), The Better to See You With, Ettrick, Chen Santa Maria February 22, 2008

Friday, Feb 22, 9pm-1am
Eli's Mile High Club (3629 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland, CA
94609, 510-654-4549)
$8.00

Lava Nights Presents:
Ovo (Italy)
The Better to See You With (Portland)
Ettrick (San Francisco)
Chen Santa Maria (Oakland)

OvO
Milan, Italy's Ovo are a two piece using guitar/violin cellos and
drums that dump a toxic sludge with an unmistakable butterscotch
scent. This sludge is in line with contemporaneous doom salesmen such
as BORIS and the MELVINS, with the addition of vox stylings that take
this record to a new place entirely. The sounds coming from Stephania
Pedretti's mouth as she sings go from lullaby sweet to terrifyingly
raw in short intervals. Instrumentation on this platter is diverse,
with guitars, bass, drums being added to the mix as well as music
store stand-by's like harmonica, piano, and cello.
http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/ovo.html
http://www.myspace.com/ovobarlamuerte

The Better to See You With
"...it's a battle of moaning, shrieked vocals, grinding synth, and
drums and guitar that growl and gnash around each other like two
alligators wrestling in the shallows. In the end, everything blooms
into a great psychedelic tapestry of intelligent brutality." -
Portland Mercury
http://www.myspace.com/thebettertoseeyouwith

Ettrick
San Francisco's Ettrick is a self-destructive free jazz/black metal
assault featuring two multi-instrumentalists rotating through every
permutation of their drum and sax duo. In their brutal free
improvisations, Jacob Felix Heule and Jay Korber explore the extreme
sounds that can be wrenched from their instruments through brute force
– screaming through saxophones, throwing drums and other such impolite
extended techniques. The doubled instrumentation provides a situation
to explore playing contrasting and complimentary styles on like
instruments.
http://myspace.com/ettrick
http://ettrick.org/presskit.html

Chen Santa Maria
improvised electronics noise bursts from the recently resurrected duo
of George Chen and Steven Santa Maria
http://www.myspace.com/chensantamaria

Official Website: http://www.oaklandmilehigh.com