With a bit of luck you can find disturbingly designed post-punk records from medium-sized British industrial cities in the junk box, recorded by bands with nihilistic names like Persons Unknown, equipped with music that deals with the dissolution or restoration of identities, with death and standstill, escape and paralysis . It would be a good marketing move if Hendrik Otremba placed a few copies of his first solo album in these boxes, because that’s where this record belongs: not necessarily in the junk box, but close to those 80s British post-punks, unquestionably artistic soulmates of the in Berlin-based multi-artist.
Otremba is: singer of Messer, novelist (most recently: “Benito”, a literary sophisticated celebration of the present), poet, publicist, painter. His claim to art is not to separate these different areas, but to let them flow into one another. Why references, themes and protagonists are found again – but above all moods.
RISKANTES MANÖVER refers in the title to dealing with contradictions, which is exactly what Otremba tests in a piece like “Der Graber”, which changes from a morbid ballad to jazz noise without losing any of its beauty. “New York II” dispenses with the tension, remains a pure love song, the strings shine like in the Walker Brothers, the nonchalance is reminiscent of Lou Reed, at the end there is a whistle, relaxed and presumably in a good mood. That too is a RISKY MANEUVER – just enjoy what is right now: the present.
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