Odd Beholder

UPCOMING SHOWS

Wed 20 March 24

Ponyhof – Frankfurt

Thu 21 March 24

Druckluft – Oberhausen

Past shows

Tue 19 March 24

Café Glocksee – Hannover

Sat 16 March 24

Live Club – Bamberg

Fri 15 March 24

Franz Mehlhose - Erfurt

Thu 14 March 24

Aaltra – Chemnitz

Wed 13 March 24

Monarch – Berlin

Tue 12 March 24

Krise – Bremen

Sun 25 February 24

ISC – Bern

Thu 14 December 23

Le Bourg – Lausanne

Sun 10 December 23

Helsinki – Zürich

Sat 18 November 23

Schokoladen – Berlin

Fri 17 November 23

Milla – München

Wed 15 November 23

Nachtasyl – Hamburg

Tue 14 November 23

Pension Schmidt – Münster

Mon 13 November 23

Die Wohngemeinschaft – Köln

Sun 12 November 23

Hafen 2 – Offenbach

Fri 10 November 23

Noch Besser leben – Leipzig

Wed 8 November 23

Cafe Galao – Stuttgart

Tue 7 November 23

Schlosskeller – Darmstadt

Sat 30 September 23

Mehrspur – Zürich

Fri 22 September 23

40 Jahre Fri-Son – Fribourg

Sat 9 September 23

Schüür – Luzern

Sat 2 September 23

Aktion 4/4 @ Zentralwäscherei - Zürich

Sun 27 August 23

Badenfahrt – Baden

Sat 26 August 23

Hoffest Kammgarn – Schaffhausen

Sun 20 August 23

DorfleuteLiäd – Buochs

Sat 19 August 23

Endsommerfest, Erster Stock – Münchenstein

Fri 4 August 23

Polenta7000 – Chur

Wed 2 August 23

FluxFM Bergfest – Berlin

Thu 20 July 23

Luzern Live – Luzern

Wed 19 July 23

Barfussbar – Zürich

Wed 12 July 23

Gugus Gurte Festival – Bern

Thu 18 May 23

Kraftfeld – Winterthur

Sun 19 March 23

Café Glocksee – Hannover

Fri 24 February 23

Bad Bonn – Düdingen

Tue 27 December 22

Bar der toten Tiere – Bern

Fri 11 November 22

Mokka – Thun

Sat 1 October 22

BangOn! Festival – Berlin

Fri 9 September 22

Stubenkonzerte – Bern

Sun 28 August 22

Palp Festival – Champex-Lac

Fri 19 August 22

Kurheater – Baden

Sun 7 August 22

Rotonda – Locarno

Sat 6 August 22

Café Hueber – Bern

Sat 30 July 22

Buatsch Festival – Tersnaus

Sat 30 July 22

Buatsch Festival – Tersnaus

Fri 22 July 22

Hafen 2 – Offenbach

Thu 21 July 22

Bunter Beton – Stuttgart

Tue 19 July 22

Schon Schön – Mainz

Sun 17 July 22

Breminale – Bremen

Sat 16 July 22

Immergut – Neustrelitz

Thu 14 July 22

Noch Besser Leben – Leipzig

Sat 4 June 22

Bad Bonn Kilbi (mit UFO) – Düdingen

Fri 3 June 22

Imagine Festival – Basel

Fri 27 May 22

Odeon – Brugg

Thu 12 May 22

KreuzKultur - Solothurn

Wed 4 May 22

Sender – Zürich

Sun 9 January 22

Werkstatt – Chur

Sat 9 October 21

Baden, Switzerland

Fri 1 October 21

Luzern, Switzerland

Sat 25 September 21

St. Gallen, Switzerland

Thu 22 April 21

GDS.fm Live-Stream, Zurich

Sat 8 February 20

S.M. Ligure

Fri 7 February 20

Novara, Italy

Thu 5 December 19

München, Germany

Sat 12 January 19

Olten, Switzerland

Sat 24 November 18

Hamburg, Germany

Fri 9 November 18

Dudingen, Switzerland

Thu 1 November 18

Winterthur, Switzerland

Sat 27 October 18

Berlin, Germany

Thu 20 July 17

Hamburg, Germany

Wed 19 July 17

Berlin, Germany

Tue 18 July 17

Munich, Germany

Fri 9 June 17

Basel, Switzerland

Thu 18 May 17

Brighton, UK

Sat 13 May 17

Nyon, Switzerland

Fri 12 May 17

Zürich, Switzerland

Thu 11 May 17

Bern, Switzerland

Sat 6 May 17

St. Gallen, Switzerland

Fri 28 April 17

Leipzig, Germany

Thu 27 April 17

Munich, Germany

Mon 24 April 17

Cologne, Germany

Sun 16 April 17

Offenbach, Germany

Sat 15 April 17

Hamburg, Germany

Thu 30 March 17

Zürich, Switzerland

Thu 23 March 17

Erlangen, Germany

Tue 21 March 17

Osnabrück, Germany

Sun 19 March 17

Wiesbaden, Germany

Sat 18 March 17

Düsseldorf, Germany

Fri 17 March 17

Erfurt, Germany

Thu 16 March 17

Mannheim, Germany

Wed 15 March 17

Freiburg, Germany

Tue 14 March 17

Konstanz, Germany

Sun 12 March 17

Luzern, Switzerland

Sat 11 March 17

Dudingen, Switzerland

Fri 10 March 17

Vienna, Austria

Thu 9 March 17

Graz, Austria

Sat 18 February 17

Luzern, Switzerland

Sat 3 December 16

Zug, Switzerland

Tue 15 November 16

Berlin, Germany

Wed 9 November 16

Munich, Germany

Tue 8 November 16

Cologne, Germany

Mon 7 November 16

Hannover, Germany

Sat 5 November 16

Rostock, Germany

Fri 4 November 16

Leipzig, Germany

Thu 3 November 16

Jena, Germany

Fri 28 October 16

Dudingen, Switzerland

Fri 21 October 16

Zürich, Switzerland

Fri 7 October 16

Basel, Switzerland

Fri 30 September 16

Baden, Switzerland

Wed 21 September 16

Hamburg, Germany

Sat 17 September 16

Luzern, Switzerland

Thu 7 July 16

Zürich, Switzerland

Thu 2 June 16

Dudingen, Switzerland

Mon 16 May 16

Zürich, Switzerland

Sun 15 May 16

Zürich, Switzerland

Sat 30 April 16

Zürich, Switzerland

Sun 24 April 16

Bern, Switzerland

Thu 1 January 70

Thu 1 January 70

Ante – Luzern

MUSIC

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Sunny Bay

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All Reality is Virtual

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Lighting

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CONTACT

 

Booking Agent:

fabian@gladwemet.ch

for Switzerland

arthur@oha-music.com

for international inquiries

Press Contact:

pr@sinnbus.de

Press Kit «Lost in Communication»

Press Kit Odd Beholder

 

ABOUT

 

Feel Better

Hi, how are you? As the end of the year 2023, Daniela Weinmann aka Odd Beholder released her third full-length record “Feel Better”. The sensual and chromatic record was penned shortly after Weinmann’s grandfather took his own life as a part of a program called EXIT.* The material that resulted is an attempt to exorcise the spectres of grief and investigate the cultural and familial mechanics that led to his untimely departure. This is the record where the Odd Beholder travels back in time and tells a coming-of-age story in a small town in the 90s.

While writing this material, Daniela posted a statement to her social media channels stating, “Songs write themselves, in a way, and there is only so much about them that you can control.” She described the process as an act of translation, where the biggest challenge was to have the discipline “to allow the music and the words to come as they may.” The result is some of the most candid, emotionally infused material in the Odd Beholder catalog to date, set to a coercive melange of body music. There is a bit of Shoegaze, Electro-Pop, New Wave, and Techno here, but the end result is something wholly odd and fully beholderesque. Needless to say, the material came in a flash. It was recorded in Berlin with Douglas Greed behind the boards.

“Feel Better” is a record that was designed with the logic of a modern novel in mind – a non-linear series of vignettes that map the life-mosaic of the main character. The action takes place in the nineties, in a small provincial town in Switzerland, a place full of “bullies, marching bands, and peeping toms” (Rifle Club). Where “every time we had a family meeting, I thought I was a loser, I thought I was freak” (Dogs Like Me). ‘Woolen Sweater,’ is a portrait of a family waiting for the day of an assisted suicide procedure: “We could hold hands and say nothing together, you look so thin inside your woollen sweater.” ‘Insecurities’ deals with love knotted in all sorts of awkwardness and anxiety “I’ve always been but an awkward dreamer.” ‘Dirty Secret’ speaks to brutal lessons that only love can teach: “Will expose you, teach you how to cry, and tell you all your dirty secrets.” On ‘Just Because I Regret It,’ we find out that regret doesn’t necessarily “mean I won’t do it again and again.” ‘Patchwork Girl’ looks at how society uses a woman’s body as a screen to project all sorts of fears onto: “A man like Frankenstein just wasn’t able, to love his ugly daughter how he loved his ugly son.” ‘Then You Forgive Me’ speaks to emotional codependency and the art of manipulation: “First, you taught me how to blame myself, then you forgive me.” The record closes with a song called ‘Stupid Walk:’ “Healing takes more time than you have thought. Please just try to listen to your heart. You might wanna take a stupid walk in the park, your friends are wondering why you’re missing.”

“Feel Better” is a record about finding the courage to explore the dark spaces inside of you so that you can finally move on and live a life on your own terms!

*The program provides Swiss residents with access to trained medical professionals who assist them through the procedure.

Lost in Communication

Odd Beholder and Long Tall Jefferson’s collab EP saw the light of the day in the rainy spring of 2023. Experimenting with the format of the classic duet, they present you their first single «Self-Checkout» and beam you into the supermarket closest to your parent’s home, where you meet your first love again, years later. You contemplate the pampers in his/her shopping cart and the fact that yes, people move on and they have children with someone else than you. «Lost in Communication» is a very slow, relaxing and almost trippy journey of a song into the doom of online dating and the longing to find a home in someone.

Sunny Bay

Welcome to the «Sunny Bay»! Odd Beholders second album invites you into a run down hotel, a place filled with Schlagermusik and the smell of burnt Pizza. You’re the only guest because the hotel is actually closed (yes, pandemic times) – so make yourself comfortable. The waitress brings you a drink called «Eve of Destruction» and you wish yourself luck, glaring at the translucent plastic waste that decorates the beach.

About the new single «Disaster Movies»

«Disaster Movies» is Weinmann’s artistic extension of her political activism. Right after her debut album, she co-founded the Swiss branch of the international climate protection organisation “Music Declares Emergency”.

«Disaster Movies» is a comment on our decadence and our destructive consumerism. Weinmann speaks about the track:

«Two protagonists recall their teenage nonchalance, how they used to wish the whole damn town would burn down. They are now standing on the site of an actual catastrophe. Now that a monstrous flood has swallowed the entire town they don’t feel an inch of glee. Disappointed in their own premature disillusion, they feel like they have entered one of the disaster movies that they used to watch. What they quickly realise is that it doesn’t feel heroic at all. Instead everything seems dull and impractical, and terribly frightening.»

Sonically, «Disaster Movies» is rooted in bouncing arpeggios, it’s like a synth-pop soundtrack to a monstrous calamity unfolding in slow motion. The neon veneer of digital pop is being shredded before us by the brash reality of nature exhausted and drained.

About Odd Beholder

In Odd Beholder’s music, Weinmann precisely and laconically records the oddities, shadows and misunderstandings of our time. Her version of embracing dark pop music is a way of dealing with unpleasant truths, yet it’s also a way to seek some comfort.

While Odd Beholder’s debut album “All Reality Is Virtual” revolved around digitalisation, Weinmann’s second album “Sunny Bay” addresses the topic of nature, or rather the romantic notions and existential fears that nature triggers in us. Before that, Odd Beholder released two impressive EPs, “Lighting” (2016) and “Atlas” (2017). In 2018, “Remixes” was released; a tastefully curated EP to which The/Das, Fejka and Hundreds contributed their work.

Odd Beholder’s music is cinematic. The videos created for the music are always treated as conceptual art. The video clip for the single “Landscape Escape”, shot by Berlin filmmakers Grambow & Kirchknopf in Azerbaijan in cooperation with the Azerbaijan Social & Modern Dance Association, won the jury prize of the “Best Swiss Video Clip”-Awards 2017. The song is also used at a central point in the film “Mario”, which deals with the complicated handling of homosexuality in the world of football.

Odd Beholder has been invited to important festivals such as Great Escape (UK), Eurosonic (NL) or Reeperbahn Festival (DE), has toured in various formations in China, Italy, Germany and Switzerland and was explicitly asked by the Hamburg-based electro-pop duo Hundreds as well as by Bodi Bill to accompany their respective tours.

Over the course of various lockdowns and temporary border closures in 2020, Weinmann worked with Berlin musician Douglas Greed on the second Odd Beholder album “Sunny Bay”, which will finally be released this autumn.

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