Odd Beholder – all in an honest day’s work
Daniela Weinmann – aka Odd Beholder – likes a concept album. Previous song cycles have focused on the digitalisation of our world, modern concepts of nature, and the circumstances that have formed her own life. For her fourth album, “Honest Work” (out now via Sinnbus), she delves deep into the everyday politics of work.
“Honest Work” collects the songs created over a two-year period when Weinmann found the difficulties of combining one side of her creative life, writing and recording music and playing concerts, with the other, a research job at the university to pay the bills, almost impossible to negotiate. Aiming for a electro/wave sound rooted in nineties electronica, drum’n’bass and techno, she found in Berlin-based techno producer Douglas Greed a kindred spirit who was instrumental in co-shaping an album that pairs a willingness to tackle difficult subjects – terrible working conditions, ecological crises, exhaustion, anger, etc – with songs that combine fine melodies with introspective urgency.
