OVUM POST-ROCK SOUND NETS NFL FILM SCORE

Ovum broughg their post-rock sound to New York’s CMJ Music Marathon last week, and what they brought home was a contract for an NFL film.

Ovum was part of the Japanese contingent at CMJ, the College Music Journal festival, in New York City last week. The band played four shows during their stay, including two on October 23. It was their first trip to the United States. Ovum will not have trouble translating. The four-piece is an all instrumental outfit that combines indie, ambient, hard rock – think Mono combined with the music from Pink Floyd and A Perfect Circle, among others.

Not only was playing the States a success for the band, they also made a deal with a filmmaker for use of their music in an NFL documentary, said bassist Shunsuke and drummer Yu through a translator.

“Actually we got an offer from a U.S. movie director, and we think he is not famous here, but he was basically making a documentary movie for the NFL. He actually got to know us through Myspace, and he said he’s going to send us the complete package, but we didn’t get it yet. But from what he was saying he used two songs from our tunes.”

So were they afraid that because of their lack of experience in America that someone would be disingenuous about making the NFL film?

“OK, so it was a really serious guy because we actually got the money from him and signed the contracts. We just didn’t get the completed package from him, that’s just it.”

On their myspace page, ovumjapan, the band describes their sound as “nostalgia, melancholia, psychedelia.” Their album, Microcosmos was released through indie label XTAL music in April of 2008, and Ovum formed in 2006.