Odalie describes herself as an intuitive composer, because music comes naturally from her experiments just by playing with her synths. Together, these stories give life to her debut album, Puissante Vulnérabilité, an intimate and deep project that’s been brewing for more than 2 years. Odalie, however, didn’t find her calling in a conventional way. It was working on the radio and by manipulating background soundtracks for her podcasts that the French electronic music producer had her musical awakening.
Puissante Vulnérabilité is an album full of contrasts and raw emotions, interspersed with moments of quietude and a heavy dose of experimentation, where she assumes a genre-defying position while breaking free from the normative when it comes to music producing. “In this album I’ve also mixed a lot of my influences without wondering if it would be okay in terms of genre, I just did it. That’s why you can find some very experimental tracks and others with voices that are really easier to listen to. They are all parts of what I am as a composer and musician”, she shares.
Harbouring a highly improvisational approach to her production, the album was made from a
collaborative perspective, in part garnered from years as an active member of activist communities. With synthesisers and a computer as her primary instrument, Odalie’s artistry is governed more by her inquisitive spirit than by the restrictions of formal musicality. Here, we connected with the musician to understand a bit more about the production process of this album, her musical upbringing and next career steps.
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