Noctilucent Valleys

There exists a sense of optimism in Ov’s humming analog drones, a floating light within a pack of ominous clouds. Building from their brilliant debut CDR, Nocilucent Valleys takes Ov's expansive palette, blurrs and disguises instrumental thresholds, and presents sheer sound augmented by mysterious and mesmerizing gentle clamor. Initial impressions slowly morph into demonstrative bliss, synthesizing the organic and the unknown.

Ov is the new project from prolific, longtime collaborators (and recent newlyweds) Christine Boepple and Jewelled Antler’s Loren Chasse, both of San Francisco. Ov pushes the duo’s established scopic pallette further into the void. Touching upon traditional minimalism and psychedelic free-form folk music, Nocilucent Valleys plays like the soundtrack to an otherworldly fairy tale, with foggy oscillations guiding the extrinsic myth. Abstract in presentation yet concrete in execution, the limitless creations that form Nocilucent Valleys harken to the amorphous eternal music of Angus Maclise, William Basinski’s wondrous expanses, the sounds synthesis of Richard Pinhas or Francisco Lopez, Alastair Galbraith’s Ur-drones, and Markus Popp or Matthew Bower at their most transcendental.