Ovipositor Summer Update

Ovipositor is making moves…I mean, you know, for as many “moves” as we do make, which isn’t many, so any moves are big moves, right?  Anyway, check it…

Colin developed and launched an all-new web site for the band, complete with history, streaming music (listen to all three records!), and a pay gate to buy all three albums. Sweet.

We’re still working on the screen-printed packaging for the Oakland Minor CDs (cover pictured here), but you can buy it as a digital download or disc (we’ll get it to you in a special limited edition package of some sort) through the site, and we’ve also got some business type deals in the works that will land the records on all the major online retailers in the coming months. More on that soon.

In the meantime (and thanks to the networking prowess of drummer Mark Pino), we’re basking in the glory that comes with getting Oakland Minor reviewed in the latest issue of The Big Takeover magazine — Issue #64, with The Decemberists on the cover. I can’t find the review on the site, so here’s a scan of it:

Finally, one last note about shows…We don’t really have any booked right now. One of the three of us is out of town at any given time pretty much all summer, which has made booking shows particularly challenging. But we’re still doing our thing at Colin’s Beatnik Dungeon weekly, so the next time you see us live, you’ll probably hear a whole mess of new stuff. We’ll let you know when that happens. In lieu of live show news, here are a few songs from our last show at the Starry Plough in Berkeley back in March…

Ovipositor, “Burning Breath”

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Ovipositor, “Intermission”

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Ovipositor, “When I Die”

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These songs were recorded with a Zoom H2 (captured as 320kbps mp3, using the 120-degree mic array), which was set in a mic stand afixed to the front of the sound booth. No effects were applied to the recording.