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The new Oberdada album Strange Bedfellows has now been released. Fourteen tracks of conventional music, following existing and novel conventions, guide the listener from beginning to end, unless you are listening in reverse order. The songs are thematically linked, often in subtle ways that may reveal themselves as Easter eggs only after a few listenings. Superficially, the album covers several styles such as tango, jazz fusion, and progressive rock, yet circles around the core of interconnected themes.
As most of the instrumental parts have been actually performed, as opposed to programmed, the music is far from the slick and perfected production ideals in vogue. Still, what may sound spontaneous is the result of meticulous attention to details and long hours of editing.
An hour of a strange listening experience is now available at:
https://oberdada.bandcamp.com/album/strange-bedfellows
Producing a long and complicated album such as this one takes time. In the process, original ambitions sometimes have to be modified, and new ideas may have to replace old ones. A substantial part of the material for Strange Bedfellows was already in place in 2021, as mentioned in a previous glog post:
In fact, a version of the opening track dates from 2014. As originally conceived, the album was supposed to involve some fellow musicians, but in the end Oberdada, the strange bedroom producer, was joined only by Dickran Marsupial who plays guitar on one of the tracks.