ohGr

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ohGr
ohGr live in Chicago 2008
ohGr live in Chicago 2008
General information
origin Los Angeles , California
Genre (s) Synthpop , Electronic Music , IDM , Post-Industrial
founding 2000
Website Facebook
Current occupation
Nivek Ogre
Mark Walk
William Morrison
Justin Bennett
former members
Guitar, bass
 Tim Skold
Various instruments
 cEvin Key

ohGr is a musical side project of Kevin Ogilvie (aka Nivek Ogre), best known as the singer of the Canadian post-industrial band Skinny Puppy . The American Mark Walk ( Ruby , Pigface , Skinny Puppy) is also involved. ohGr was launched in 2001.

Band history

Kevin Ogilvie (aka Nivek Ogre) had been thinking about starting a side project for a long time. First attempts under the project name WELT, an acronym for When Everyone Learns Truth ( English : When everyone learns the truth ), together with producer Mark Walk were made shortly after the breakup of Skinny Puppy in 1995. The two already knew each other from the band Pigface . At the beginning, Al Jourgensen ( Ministry ) was planned as a permanent member of the band. Together they wrote music and recorded some tracks. Jourgensen left the band, however. The only published recording is the track Noreen, which is on Ministry's album Filth Pig (1996).

The first efforts with WELT failed, however, because Ogilvie was still contractually bound to Rick Rubins American Recordings . Only released from the contract in 1999, it took two more years before the debut album could appear. Since a Californian punk band had secured the band name Welt , Ogre renamed the project ohGr, a clear reference to his stage name. The old name was retained as the title for the debut album, which was finally released in February 2001 on the Spitfire Records label. The band still consists mainly of Ogilvie and Walk, although other members can be heard on the albums. The song Cracker from the first album has often been misunderstood as an attack on Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails , although this was not on purpose, according to Ogilvie.

In 2003 the second album SunnyPsyOp was released, also via Spitfire Records. In 2004 Skinny Puppy returned and have been operated in parallel ever since. In 2008, the third album, Devils in My Details, was released, a concept album about Ogilvie's time in Los Angeles .

In 2011, the last album to date was unDeveloped via Metropolis Records. The cover was created by Steven R. Gilmore and shows a fetus. The album is again a concept album about a character named Mr. Brownstone. The story has echoes of a naked lunch . The protagonist collects electronic things and uses a typewriter similar to the protagonist in Naked Lunch. He uses this to communicate via the ohgr.com website and Facebook . At that time, the digital content was tailored to the concept. The song Crash, on the other hand, is about the death of Michael Jackson and September 11th as a sign of a world going under.

In 2017 ohGr is touring the United States with KMFDM .

Music genre

OhGr, like Skinny Puppy, is arrested in post-industrial. In contrast to Ogilvie's most famous band, the music is much more melodic and danceable, and contains elements of intelligent dance music , trip-hop , ambient and synth-pop . The vocals are also much clearer now, and the music also focuses more on the vocals, which Skinny Puppy uses more as an instrument. However, each album shows a different facet of Ogilvie's and Walk's work. WELT tried a rather humorous approach and was the exact opposite of the disturbing music in the times of Pigface and Skinny Puppy, while the successor was more rooted in post-industrial. Although elements from the noise are still included, the focus is more on electronic passages than sawing guitars. However, there are still disturbing passages like the breakbeat anthem Shite on the album. Devils in My Details, on the other hand, continued to approach Skinny Puppy, but mixed this with music in the style of progressive rock such as Pink Floyd or early Genesis . The music is reminiscent of the soundtrack to a horror film . Also Undeveloped modeled more after Skinny Puppy and is more aggressive kept.

Discography

Albums
  • 2001: WORLD (Spitfire Records)
  • 2003: SunnyPsyOp (Spitfire Records)
  • 2008: Devils in My Details (Synthetic Symphony)
  • 2011: unDeveloped (Metropolis)
Singles & EPs
  • 2001: Cracker / Pore (Promo EP / Single. Spitfire Records)
  • 2009: Timebomb (Radio Edit) (promo single)
Other publications
  • 2009: Welcome to Collidoskope (download track)
  • 2010: Welcome to Collidoskope: Remixes (in-house production, remix album)
  • 2011: Tragek (download track)
  • 2018: Tricks (PledgeMusic / in-house productions)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matt Parish: ohGr: Tracing Ogre's trajectory. thephoenix.com, December 5, 2008, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Artist Biography by MacKenzie Wilson at Allmusic (English). Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c OhGr at laut.de
  4. ↑ Nivek Ogre (of Skinny Puppy and OhGr) sets the record straight on the lyrics and video of "Cracker". imgur.com , July 30, 2014, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Interview: ohGr. Soundsphere Magazine, April 30, 2011, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ KMFDM are touring with ohGr of Skinny Puppy and set to release new EP. Post-Punk.com, accessed April 26, 2017 .
  7. ^ Daniel Straub: laut.de review: The ex-Skinny Puppy front man proves his desire for melody. laut.de , accessed on May 15, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Review: OHGR - 'DIMD'. Klangwelt, October 26, 2008, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Chris Alexander: ohGr. Metropolis, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Tom Murphy: Ogre (Kevin Ogilvie) on how ohGr differs from Skinny Puppy and the death of Michael Jackson. Westworld.com, December 7, 2011, accessed May 14, 2017 .