I believe Öderland would translate as barren land. Is that right?
I continue exploring some compilation tapes of obscure bands and I’ve been mostly focused on the “Frischer Morgentau” tape that Ulli Hahndorf put together in 1993 under his Steinpilz Tonträger (Stein 1) label.
I have written, at least, about a half of the bands in this cassette. But there are still a handful of bands I don’t know nothing about. I wonder if it will be possible to find details about them online. Maybe?
Öderland appears on the A side of the tape with the song “Was Du Mich Kannst”. It is a nice lo-fi pop song with clear British indiepop influences. According to the insert that came with the compilation the band was based in Hamburg and featured Christian Neumann as its sole member.
The insert also mentions the existence of a few more songs, “Du Hast Die Welt in Deinen Bett” and “Was Soll Ich Hier”, and also one about Blumfeld’s Jochen Distelmeyer but no song title is given for this one.
The two other songs we know about would eventually find a release. Under a reworked title “Welt = Bett” it appears on “Ha, Ha, Funny Feeling!” the compilation tape that Meller Welle Produkte (MEL 15) released in 1994. And then “Was Soll Ich in Dieaser Stadt”, again a reworked title, appears on “Caught By the Warmth” a compilation tape released by Meller Welle Produkte (MEL 17) in 1997.
But here comes the surprise. It is in this “Caught by the Warmth” tape that the song about Blumfeld’s leader also gets released. It is titled “Ich Weiß, Wo Jochen Distelmeyer Icht” and I would really love to listen to it. Anyone could help me with that? I’m very curious about it!
So now we know, 4 songs in total. Probably from a single demo tape? And you wonder what happened to Christian Neumann? Did he continue making music in any other way? There are few Christian Neumann’s in Germany related to the music industry… so seems a bit hard for me to figure out what happened to him.
In any case this is more than I expected. I know there were more songs than the one I knew. Now, I need to track them down.
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