Legendary underground filmmaker George Kuchar would vacation every year in the small town of El Reno, Oklahoma to watch the tornadoes. But because he couldn’t drive, he mostly stayed in his cheap motel room, watched TV and filmed the rain through the window. The journeys to the dangerous weather phenomenon, during which the famous “Weather Diaries” were created, were actually journeys into one’s own self.
For his first solo album MOTEL RENO, Chuckamuck mastermind Oska Wald traveled directly and without detours into the self, where the Berliner found abysses, but above all desolation, precisely that trivial everyday life that plagues us all. Wald ticks off his first three decades of life in the two-minute and one-second opener “What happened so far”, then it gets down to business: “Elmex in the morning, Aronal in the evening”, Oska Wald purrs, languishes, moans as if it weren’t about brushing his teeth , but about making love. He reads a book about crop circles on the toilet, he counts how many matryoshkas fit into each other and hopes that will help against the boredom of existence.
Directly inspired by Kuchar, “Stormchaser” sees the same rain every day, the lyrics of “Pizza Amore” are little more than the delivery menu. In addition, the music staggers aimlessly from folk to country to Latin American, from skill to dilettantism and back, like the lyrics from Dada across countless meta-levels to clairvoyant nonsense. And Oska Wald stumbles straight into his new role as Helge Schneider of lo-fi folk.
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