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About Me

A progressive rock/experimental power duo, with an emphasis on songwriting and improvisation, often combined with endless riffs on guitar, escapist keyboard flights and/or over indulgent bass and percussive abandon. Active 1998 - 2004, based in the Houston area. Featuring members J. Andrew Bobbitt and Thomas Ayresol , who are now focusing primarily on their solo projects. It is their hope that this music will continue to confuse and baffle all manner of listeners until the inevitable destruction of this planet by the trans dimensional reptilian puppetmasters. Danny McMahon was the O/U bass player in 2001 - 2002, he played 3 shows and recorded with the power duo, turning it briefly into a prog rock trio . A trio that made quite large masses of avant-noise along with space jams and sludge prog. Danny went on to be the bass player for Fist Of Kong, a FREE jazz group in Houston.UPDATE 4/09 : Both J.A.B. and Thomas find themselves in the midst of chaos not of their own making. Work on the new O/U material has been postponed until later in the summer. That is all.

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Member Since: 27/04/2007
Band Members: J. Andrew Bobbitt - guitars, bass, keyboards, vocals --- Thomas Ayresol - drums, vocals, guitar, keyboards ---Danny McMahon - bass (2001-2002)
Influences: Emerson Lake & Palmer, Rush, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Genesis, Godley & Creme, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Ween, Miles Davis, Sonic Youth, Frippertronics, David Bowie, Gary Numan, McCoy Tyner, Judas Priest
Record Label: Texistential Waveform
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

O/U CD 's back in print SOON!

Thanks to Texistential Waveform, the new printings of TURNING INTO US(2001), NOW! (2002) and the SWEAT WIZARD EP (2004) will be coming back from the replication facility in the next month. More info ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:56:00 GMT

O/U Update 11/08

Starting in May-June with 2 new song demo sessions, a new energy has been infused into the O/U project. J.A.B. and I each wrote a rocker and brought them to a "one song" session, played them for each...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:25:00 GMT

Awakening the O/U monster!

A few weeks ago J.A.B. and myself began working on music together again for the first time since 2003. Thats right, the O/U monster will again walk the earth! So far we are focused on jamming and re...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:01:00 GMT

we are for sale in Russia?

Christian(Translations) brought it to my attention that the first O/U cd, "Kill You Until You Die" (1999, Slapjack Enterprises) is for sale as a download in Germany, France, Russia, Japan, and the UK....
Posted by on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:28:00 GMT

ayresol : the improv factor

One of the staples of Overlight Underdark from the beginning was improvisation. J. Andrew and I spent many drunken hours in the early days of the project jamming and coming up with more riffs and id...
Posted by on Wed, 16 May 2007 10:25:00 GMT

Welcome from J.A.B.

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Posted by on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:02:00 GMT

Ayresol : the legacy of O/U pt.1

So J. Andrew and I have this page up at last! Its been overdue for awhile now, as we have not had a dedicated band website the last 3 years. Now at least there is a place where people can find us, o...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:40:00 GMT

O/U discography

Kill You Until You Die 1999 Turning Into Us 2001NOW! 2002Sweat Wizard EP 2004there is also a "lost" fifth album, well not lost exactly, but unfinished. currently we do not have any plans to finis...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:39:00 GMT