Recorded live in Placard #7 Headphone Festival, Helsinki, Finland on May 22, 2004. Edition of 500 copies, hand-numbered.

Reviews:

"The album contains the solo and combined contributions of Ovro & Niko Skorpio to the Placard Festival. These festivals are only made available on headphones, either by MP3 or live streams over the Internet, to locations either nearby or remote. On this occasion the performance took place in a Helsinki apartment, convenient for the Finnish artists, with listening slots (the "placards") set up in France, Belgium and Italy. Therefore the conditions of its original performance are entirely replicable at home.
Headphone listening greatly heightens awareness of stereo. This is exploited throughout, pre-eminently by using stereo panning with a vigour and agandon rarely heard since the technique's adoption by the mass market. Likewise, radical separation in each channel is often made apparent by rapid on-off sequences.
Ovro's half develops with more convincing aesthetic with these tools. "Pre-Concrete Echoes", for example, mixes muted thumps and echoes together with helter skelters of purely electronic and purely synthetic sound. It is like listening to the infrastructure of a building, with wires, pipes, walls and joists conspiratorially crepitating to each other. Over this, Ovro whispers barbed threats in a little girl's voice. It is a piece born to live in the intimacy of the headphones, never taking the listener beyond the space between their ears.
Niko Skorpio's pieces are both more musical and more robust. The collapsing building sounds on "Oskorei", or the Eastern wind riff on "Liminal Cows", or the recognisable guitar and percussion sounds throughout, take our minds to the source of their creation. The standout track, however, brings both artists together on "Dreams Which Burn", a telling title for a piece where Ovro's paranoid and unresolved soundscapes are buffeted by Niko's sonically fiercer leanings to produce a distubingly scorched nightmare."
(The Wire)

"In a mostly boys controlled world of music and laptops, the few girls doing so get more and more attention. People like Kaffe Matthews, AGF and Maja Ratkje are already well-known, and upcoming stars are Iris Garrelfs and Ovro are upcoming. Music by Ovro has been discussed before (see Vital Weekly 395) and here she shares and album of live material with Niko Skorpio. Like I wrote before there are similarities between the sound of Ovro and AGF in a way that both deal with vocals, or maybe rather spoken words. Poetic electronic music. It's hard to decipher what these poems are about, but hearing the somewhat darker undercurrents in her music I bet it's not a happy worldview. The musical setting is mostly on the quieter side of electronics. After her live recording follows an improvised piece with Niko Skorpio, which combines the best of both worlds, but less the vocals.
Niko Skorpio is an established artist on the Some Place Else label, and he uses sampling to a great extend with noise elements and slow rhythms. When Skorpio puts his Reptiljan cap on, things turn grim with a bunch of laptop grindcore. Two examples are enclosed here too. It makes the entire disc into a well-done, well varied bunch of electronic music by two of the more promising artists from Finland."
(Vital Weekly)

"Here's a lengthy live disc from these two Finnish experimental artists, recorded live at Placard #7 in Helsinki, Finland on May 22, 2004. Ovro beings with eight tracks of her unique ambient stylings, using lots of faint low-end hums, shuffling midrange, occasional glitchy distortion (very light and very rare), and plenty of manipulated spoken vocal work. Oftentimes the vocals have an eerie yet childlike quality going on, and I've not been that fond of such in Ovro's work in the past, but while still a bit of a bother it somehow comes across more abstractly in this live setting. The faint narration in "Bonfire of Stories" sounds nice against the gurgling low-end textures to create an ominous atmosphere, leading into the murky depths of the also nice "Equate". As a whole Ovro's set flows surprisingly well from start to finish, covering around 27 minutes. Following is "Dreams Which Burn": A 7+ minute collaboration between Ovro and Niko Skorpio, using minimal layering and lots of motion that's a bit more strangely melodic than Ovro's solo material, while slightly more subdued and stripped down than Niko Skorpio's set. It's definitely a sinister piece (notably the latter moments, which are excellent), and the pacing is very well considered to keep things interesting. Hitting right around 23 minutes, Niko Skorpio's eight-song set closes the disc, opening with a similar approach to Ovro's unusual dark ambient and glitchy electronic sounds before becoming more musical and diverse, ranging from ultra minimal drones and hums to the sampled musical arrangements and percussion (from Slayer to Middle Eastern melodies) in the stuttered and almost chaotic "Liminal Cows". Ominous programmed beats continue in the more tangible and musical "Limbo Cut", while towards the close of the set Niko performs a few songs by his Reptiljan project, "All Songs Must Die" and "Zero Ego". These two pieces are harsher and more chaotic, sort of like Niko Skorpio sped up and muddily distorted (not in a bad way). So this is certainly the more active set of the evening. For being live the sound is about what you would expect for the better side of things. It's nice and thick with enough clarity and depth to suffice, while being a little muddier and less crisply detailed than studio work from the two artists would likely be. That's not a complaint, either. I think it sounds very nice and consistent. The layout keeps it minimal with a very nice photograph on the cover and some odd little imagery elsewhere, with some tiny live shots on the back cover with the tracklist. The traycard is also hand-numbered out of 500 copies. I like this. It's not totally my thing as I am quite picky about these things, but despite being a little long for me, the work is curious and comes across well in this documentation. Good work."
(Aversionline)