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Ovrfwrd Spotlight - Tramp Hollow
Greetings all, hoping this message finds you well! We want to share more information about the songs that are on There Are No Ordinary Moments. Although we are an instrumental group, our songs have a story and narrative that helps give them identity and meaning. From the names, inspiration and sounds -it gives each song its personality- Tramp Hollow (Kyle Lund) "I’ve always been interested in the romantic and more importantly the grimy side of being a hobo, transient, bum, v


Ovrfwrd Spotlight - Utopia Planitia
Greetings all, hoping this message finds you well! Ovrfwrd has been adding classic tracks to the 2026 live setlists, and we are excited to share that includes the track, "Utopia Planitia", from the album "Fantasy Absent Reason", written by Chris Malmgren. The inspiration for this song is 2-fold. Utopia Planitia is a vast, ice-rich plateau on the planet Mars. This geographic spectacle is the largest impact basin in the solar system, with a turbulent history, suggestive of lava


Ovrfwrd Spotlight - Kilauea
In light of the recent eruption of Kilauea in Hawaii, we asked Mark Ilaug to speak to the Ovrfwrd track that bears its name. "That music was something I wrote and played on guitar a long time ago, not even sure when. I would change and rearrange parts and it evolved quite a bit over the years. I never really did anything final with it, but it was always there. It never had a name. In 2017, as we were writing and doing pre-production for Blurring the Lines…A Democracy Manifest
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