There are at least four artists that go by the name Ornaments: 1) A collective of musicians from Bowling Green, Ohio. Their self-titled EP of original Christmas songs was released as a digital download on December 19, 2009. 2) A three-piece indie-rock outfit from Ottawa, Canada. The members are: David (guitar and vocals), Casey (bass, vocals, keys), and Kevin (drums, percussion, vocals). They formed in the spring of 2009. Their first EP is due to be released sometime in late 2009. 3) An instrumental quartet from Italy, described as such on their MySpace page: "Ornaments is the perfect representation of the common passion for music of a group of friends. Years of attending shows, listening to lps, entire days closed up in a rehearsal room, many kilometers on the road with a bunch of cds piled up on the dashboard. Finally these people felt something had to be given back, they had to put together the mysterious energy of all the musical influences and create something new and completely free from the typical rock stereotype. At the same time forming a band was the natural progression in keeping a close friendship going and expressing a unique mutual feeling Since early winter in 2003 until this day, ORNAMENTS represents a chance to build a solid construction of ideas and free form experimentation that can satisfy alla members of the band. ORNAMENTS wants to consider itself as an open project that can freely interact with different artistic figures such as Multimedia, Visual Artists, Soundtracks. The first self-titled EP is made up of 4 instrumental tracks. Long silent atmospheric moments are ruptured by huge brutal explosions of sound. Dark atmospheres create even more obscure visions. The song structures mix the sharp edges and tight mechanical feeling of a heavy brutal sound with a more harmonic post-rock dreaminess. Tension just keeps building up during the whole listening experience of these 4 tracks. A purifying moment just seems around the corner but it just never actually comes, the music keeps on growing in an infinite spiral." 4) A collaboration born in 2012 between Laura Dudare and Dzintars Šusts, two musicians from Latvia. "Aug miers", an album of 17 songs was released in December 2014. An English-language version titled "Growing Silence" is forthcoming in 2015. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.