Ovo/Sinistri With Xabier Iriondo
Split 10" Series # 3

THE REVIEW

Four tracks for the Ovo and two for the Sinistri, and thus takes shape the split between two of the most interesting and musically significant groups in our soundscape, where - in this specific case - the constant is represented by the presence of Xabier Iriondo (I was beginning to miss him, as he seemed to have put a brake on his mania for being everywhere...) as a guest on one Ovo track and on both of the Sinistri's tracks.

Regarding the performance offered by the duo Stefania Pedretti and Bruno Dorella, it should be noted how the formula they devised is further investigated and deepened, materializing that parapsychological mix where doom and experimental rock avant-garde manage to coexist as well as survive on their own, distinct life. Creeping, perversely allegorical, and freakish in the most creative sense of the term, yet always in the name of a paranoid darkness that retains a heavy metallic halo, rarefied, twisted, or explicit.

With the Sinistri, the matter becomes more unpredictable, not because order reigned before – on the contrary, chaos is the constant dominating all six tracks – but because such is the listener's perception. On a superficial level, I would say they seem more oriented towards funky deconstructions than they have been so far, but it is clear that this statement should be placed in the context of rhythmic outbursts, guitar contortions, and expanded noise minimalism.

Since it is both a meeting and a clash, I cannot refrain from declaring a winner, who in this specific case is Ovo!