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Ex Ovo
Experimental / Ambient / Electroacoustic

"Record label for drone music & electroacoustics"


Germany

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Member Since1/25/2007
Band Websiteexovo.org
Band MembersArtists who recently released on Ex Ovo:

Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf

Balog

Keith Berry

Paul Bradley

Brian Uzna

Column One

Dronæment

Jörg Eger

Emerge

Fear Falls Burning

Feu Follet

Steve Jolliffe

Richard Lainhart

Monostabil

Jeffrey Roden

Tholen

Troum

Mirko Uhlig

Miina Virtanen

Type of LabelIndie




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   About Ex Ovo
RECENT RELEASES:

Richard Lainhart - "White Night" - 10,00 € + postage

PRESS RELEASE:

“White Night” is a rediscovered early masterpiece of Ambient and Drone music. Recorded in 1974, this lustrous 29-minute track came a full year ahead of Brian Eno’s “Discreet Music” and reinforces Richard Lainhart both as an often overlooked pioneer of electronic music and a composer capable of transforming methodically built experiments into pure and romantic soundstates.

Lainhart taped “White Night” in the late fall of 1974 at the State University of New York at Albany in the Coordinated Electronic Music Studio. As he completed the final mix, a snow storm hit town. “All I could see was the snow swirling in the light against the blackness; a moving painting continually drawn, erased, and redrawn, always changing, but always the same”, Lainhart remembers, “It was beautiful.” To commemorate the evening, he calls the piece “White Night”.

It consists of a single, four note chord, whose root tones were sent through seperate sine wave oscillators. Because these oscillators were in turn controlled by sequencers running in their own independent timebases, the result is not just a static, repetitive drone, but a continously breathing, billowing and deflating “complex harmonic waveform”.

After its birth, “White Night “ then spends two full decades in Lainhart’s archives. When XI Records release their retrospective of his work (“Ten Thousand Shades of Blue”), it is not even included.

In 2005, a full 21 years after its release, Richard Lainhart decides to offer “White Night” for free download from his new website. Only a couple of days later, Tobias Fischer of Ex Ovo decides to search for Lainhart on the web, while browising almost randomly for a story for his WebZine tokafi.com. It is a complete and perfect coincidence. He hears “White Night” and is immediately mesmerised by its beauty. Tobias immediately sends the link to his Ex Ovo partner Mirko Uhlig, who feels the same. They decide to contact Lainhart that very day.

In 2006, Ex Ovo releases “I, Mute Hummings”, a collection of Drone pieces, which includes an eight-minute edit of “White Night”, remixed by Richard Lainhart himself. The track is constantly singled out in reviews, with the Wire calling it “gorgeous”, and creates demand for the full version to be released.

And so here it is, almost a quarter of a century after its completion: A moment of complete inspiration culled from a night covered “in the glow of the sequencers and tape decks."

RECENT RELEASES:

Feu Follet & Miina Virtanen - "The Icicle Lectures Vol. 1" - 10,00 € + postage

PRESS RELEASE:

"„The Icicle Lectures Vol. 1“ is the first episode of a collaboration between Feu Follet mastermind and Ex Ovo co-founder Tobias Fischer and Finnish composer and pianist Miina Virtanen. Premiered live to great success in Dresden in February of 2007, it embraces elements from Classical Music, Ambient and contemporary composition in one continous, challenging, yet emotional piece.

After his debut "Toi Et Le Son" (on Einzeleinheit) in January 2006 and an ankle-deep march through a mesmerising stream of foggy sounds, Feu Follet has arrived at the frozen lake of 2007.

The realisation of this album was one of those little miracles life sometimes hands us. In his sidejob, Fischer also writes for the house journal of a large call center located in Münster. It caught his eye that there was an ad in each each edition for CDs with piano music and he decided to check it out. Only a couple of months later, “The Icicle Lectures Vol 1” (which bases on Virtanen’s “Silence Thoughts II”) was a fact.

"The Icicle Lectures Vol.1" sees Fischer combining the glacial drones of the predecessor with the warm, radiating piano drops of Finnish discovery Miina Virtanen. The end result is an airy, hardly tangible composition of removal and recurrence. Like feathers falling down on an icy surface in slow motion."

v.a. - Mandala Vol. 1 - 5,00 € + postage

feat. Mirko Uhlig, Feu Follet, Keith Berry & Jörg Eger

PRESS RELEASE:

"The concept for this new series by “Ex Ovo” is simple: Four artists are selected for a musical session of Chinese Whispers. The first starts with five minutes of his music and passes it on to his successor, until there is a complete track of about twenty minutes’ length. Starting things off are labelfounders Mirko Uhlig and Tobias Fischer (aka Feu Follet), as well as two guests for this edition: Zen Drone Master Keith Berry and German guitarist Jörg Eger. From Uhlig’s deep and multilayered opening, the piece crosses into a space of enigmatic listening with Feu Follet’s spacious and touching contribution and Berry’s dark majesty, before culminating in a triumphant and otherworldly slide solo.

Preparations for Volume two are alrady on their way. "

"I, Mute Hummings" - 15,00 € + postage

CD compilation feat. Keith Berry, Fear Falls Burning, Dronæment, Troum, Jeffrey Roden, Paul Bradley, Steve Jolliffe, Column One and Richard Lainhart!

PRESS RELEASE:

"This collection of dense atmopsheres features a former member of Tangerine Dream and offers you the chance to listen to the world premiere of a long-lost thirty year old gem by an early synthesizer pioneer - as well as exclusive tracks by seven influential artists from the field of contemporary drone music.

“I, Mute Hummings” combines the Zen-inspired timelessness of Keith Berry, the circulating guitarspots of Fear Falls Burning, Dronæment's welfare mix of vinyl crackling with mumbling ether, Troum's excursions into human dreamscapes and on the other side Column One's fluttering and sawing machinery. In between rest the well balanced works of Jeffrey Roden, Paul Bradley and Steve Jolliffe. Roden creates a whole aural landscape with his bass guitar alone. It's like walking through a drony barnyard. You can simply HEAR the fresh air. It all gets more and more closed with Paul Bradley's contribution. Like Berry's piece this one conjures up floating images - ceaseless waves of drones. Steve Jolliffe - who played on Tangerine Dream's 1978 output "Cyclone" - is an old stager of electronic music and here his wonderful flute-sketch sinks deeper and deeper into the hissing maelstrom of digital glitches. But manages to reach the saving shore where Richard Lainhart - a pioneer of Moog-music - closes this collection with an exclusive rework of his stunning "White Nights".

All featured titles are previously unreleased!

15,00 € + postage

...And as an EXCLUSIVE MAILORDER BONUS:

“I, Mute Hummings Special Edition: MUTE SCRIBBLES".

This edition will contain a bonus compilation called "Mute Scribbles" on top of the regular CD, which will be limited to 100 copies and can only be purchased via our online-shop. For the airy surcharge of 2 € you will be served a 75-minute menu of well-known projects as well as some up and coming droney artists. Even though some of these names may not yet be known to you, this collection is just as deep and dreamy as the original “I, Mute Hummings” in our opinion. Don’t miss out on it!

Feat. Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf, Monostabil, Feu Follet, Tholen, Emerge, Brian Uzna, Mirko Uhlig and Balog

17,00 € + postage only via MAILORDER

BUY AT www.exovo.org

ABOUT...

EX OVO was founded at the beginning of January 2006 by Tobias Fischer (Feu Follet) and Mirko Uhlig (Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf).

"This was not a new-year’s fad but our love for dulcet drone music. We don’t want to specialise in any particular format: we love them all. So there will be releases on vinyl, CDR, CD and maybe something special on cassette. Time will tell. The only thing EX OVO’s not really interested in are DVDs - we try to keep things coming for opened ears and closed eyes."

Discography:

EXO651 Mirko Uhlig: Vivmmi (2006, Album)

EXO001 V.A.: I, Mute Hummings (2006, Sampler)

EXO001+1 V.A.: I, Mute Hummings Special Edition (2006, incl. Bonus-sampler Mute Scribbles

EXO002 Feu Follet & Miina Virtanen: The Icicle Lectures Vol. 1 (2007, Album)

EXO003 V.A.: Mandala Volume 1 (feat. Mirko Uhlig, Feu Follet, Keith Berry & Jörg Eger) (2007, EP)

EXO1974 Richard Lainhart: White Night (2007, Album)


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fieldmuzick





Jun 9 2008 7:12 AM


gerald fiebig - public transport. musique anecdotique in memoriam luc ferrari


a homage to Luc Ferrari on a red 3" mini CDr with photocover. (limited edition of 50 discs)

- order and preview gerald fiebig -

logoplasm - kane-i-kokala


1 exciting field recording composition on an acid colored 3" mini CDr with photocover. (limited edition of 50 discs)

- order and preview logoplasm -

may the sun shine bright for you!

Monobloc sound fidelity





May 22 2008 3:36 PM



hi ex Ovo,

Now available on Stomoxine net label

Monobloc Sound Fidelity : "1" !


Monobloc Sound Fidelity on Stomoxine records






free download : just click on the image

ONE STOP ELCTRC LABEL SHOP





Mar 25 2008 2:44 PM

thx for the add!
lovely line up*
Hiroki Sasajima





Mar 18 2008 11:30 AM

love your works,
thanks,
hs
Ars Macabre





Feb 27 2008 9:32 PM

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LFT records!





Feb 20 2008 8:43 PM

white night is incredible. well done on digging up such a lost treasure!!!
LFT records!





Feb 20 2008 8:31 PM

holy schmoly! LittleFuryThings new label compilation (HOMINI, HOMINI, HOMINID) for FREE! 16trks from 12artists who create the strangest of funs! its the best.

click for the da' link...


and don't forget our pantsy-fance new site too...
http://www. littlefurythings. net
electro-shock





Feb 18 2008 8:23 PM

thanks for add!

pure electro - what else?
Munich - Germany - 15 / 16 March 2008!
fieldmuzick





Feb 1 2008 9:30 AM

New Releases on field muzick

sebastien roux - urban field muzick

[fm.m06] black 3" mini cdr filled with the sounds of towns and nature

An exciting field recording collage from the homeland of Musique Concrete. Sébastien Roux cutted and pasted  field recordings from friends and himself from European towns and places.An audible travellog composed in the vein of a photoalbum.

preview and order - SÉBASTIEN ROUX - URBAN FIELD MUZICK - now

bidibop - urban field muzick

[fm.m05] orange 3" mini cdr with music from field recordings

Bidibop turned his field recordings from a New York trip into 3 relaxing and sun-shiny pieces of electronique pop muzick. Hear the ACE train sounds as music and listen to the melodie of signal-tones. Enjoy a very unique trip through Manhattan.

preview and order - BIDIBOP - URBAN FIELD MUZICK - now
Beast Of Prey [Magazin]





Jan 18 2008 2:00 PM

Salute!
Thanks for the add!
Many greetings from Poland!
All the best!
Tomasz

Martin&Martin





Dec 19 2007 10:42 AM

Thank's so much for adding us!!! Greetings from Spain. Martin&Martin
capricornus





Dec 12 2007 4:43 AM

Thank you for adding me.
dronæment





Dec 11 2007 7:48 PM

More than exclusively from the forthcomming Album „Cosmic Tape“ on ExOvo Label


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Dronæment - Cosmic Tape I (exerpt)




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Dronæment - Organ IV (exerpt)




you are welcome

Mirko Uhlig





Nov 27 2007 10:14 AM

Full of pure beauty


„Farewell Fields“ – Mirko Uhlig & Dronæment Split CD out now on Nextera


A split-album released by the czech label Nextera. It contains 2 long tracks of drone beauty and field trips.




Mirkos contribution was composed for somebody heading for something new somewhere else using only guitar, its vibrations and a recorded telephone monologue as sound sources.

The Dronæment track is a live recording from February 2007 in Dresden to the Ex Ovo Festival in AZ Conni and takes part on the Fields serie of Dronæment.

Check out!
Love!
M&M

-Mirko Uhlig – Official Website
-Mirko Uhlig – MySpace
-Dronæment – Official Website
-Dronæment – MySpace
-Nextera Website

Butch Universe





Oct 31 2007 1:05 PM

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Y-Ton-G





Oct 6 2007 1:34 PM

Ach hier steckt Ihr alle,
Vielleicht hat der Eine oder Andere Zeit oder Lust.....
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Liebe Grüße Wolfgang
KACAKU





Jun 1 2007 5:36 PM

Hello :)
Have a great summer!
Hope u r having a wonderful time...
Cheers!

KACAKU
Simmonds & Jones





Apr 30 2007 8:45 AM

Joseph





Apr 25 2007 6:19 PM

Joseph