biographical info
Hailing from a Sub-actuality Bubble (a micro-universe located beneath Cornwall, Ontario), The OVOIDS are a group of hyper-tonal monks whose style of music is difficult to pin down: Voodoo Celtic, Electro-Dweeb-Bop, beat poetry, cheezy Lounge music attitude with elevator-music type backup vocals. The tunes span the gamut of musical styles: Reggae, 1980s New-Wave sounds, spoken word, Celtic, shopping mall MUZAK. Just imagine a milkshake made from dweebly electronic computer blips and ancient Celtic instruments (like the tin-whistle, Irish flute, bodhran, mandolin). Just imagine Druids meet Cylons, Mennonites meet Devo, and you will get a hint of what The Ovoids are like. You'll probably hate it. We don't understand why we do it, but we can't stop...some strange reason...some strange compulsion. An addiction to cheeziness, perhaps. Just as you *have* to lick that flourescent orange powder from your fingers after you polish off a bag of Cheetos, we have to keep playing this stuff. It's bad for you, and you know it, but it's SOOOO good.
lineup
Brent Santin Head Monk, Creative Font & Patch-cord solderer
influences
The Mike Flowers Pops
Devo
Daft Punk
Beck
Bjork
The Beautiful South
Herb Alpert & the Tihuana Brass
Andy Williams
The Ray Conniff Singers
Claudine Longet
The Mantovani Strings
Henry Mancini
Kraftwerk