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FORGOTTEN STARS

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1.
STONES 06:34
STONES (lyrics) There’s something... something inside, I cannot define. It’s another dimension without linear time. It’s unpleasant, it’s confusing. Yes it scares me, ‘cause I’m loosing my abilities. So, I’m choosing the option to hide. The earth is a neural system. The mankind’s legacy left its marks everywhere. When I’m connected I get all the wisdom, and I feel all the scare. The only thing I need to face is a kinder, a healthier way. I need to let go before it’s too late. I need a healthier, a kinder way. So these stones are too heavy for you to carry... So these stones are too heavy for you to carry.
2.
HADES 06:18
HADES (lyrics) All the way down, where you can’t hear your voice, ...no, there’s a single sound. Oh, where we dump our sins, is where he’s cursed to be. We need our whipping boy solely in order to avoid.... Oh once upon a time we were afraid to call his name. But nowadays it’s overdue to name the facts even they are cruel. Although he’s stern, but he’s still just. No, he’s not outside of you, Hades is much more a truth of you. Hades. Hades is a genius like metaphor of mankind. Our aim is to be pure. But purity’s still a fairytale... The suppressed contains interesting tools. We need solutions for the mess we’ve done. Opportunities are mostly where we buried all the old undone.
3.
IRIS LUMINARIS (lyrics) Darling please don’t go, ‘cause I love you so… Darling please don’t leave, you’re just what I need. You’re so beautiful, you’re so beautiful to me. You’re my family, you’re more than a gift to me. I won’t hurt myself anymore! I won’t hurt myself anymore! Darling please don’t die! I’m not able to say “good bye”…. Your death has begun, I’m there for you when he comes. Why can’t we stop it here? …I’d make a promise in return! I won’t hurt myself anymore! I won’t hurt myself anymore! We will be united Babe, we will be together again! We will be united Babe, I will love you till the end! We will be united Babe, in eternity! We will be united Babe, so, you will see! All the picture of you… All my memories of you, they are telling me you’re so beautiful All my memories Oh, all my memories of you…
4.
FATHER 03:11
FATHER (lyrics) Hey father, get rid of all your fears. They are no god. Hey mother, I cannot bear your tears. They never dry. Dear brother, I wash away your pain. I hold you tight. Dear sister, illusions hurt your soul. So let it go.
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URANUS 05:34
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Did you ever think about the feelings you don’t like, all the awkward little feelings that are locked up in a shrine...? Can’t we notice the distance this behavior creates? Why can’t we just be able to open our gates...? Why do we just want the feelings that tell us that we are great? Why do we ignore the healing that is in our biggest shades...? Why do we just want the merit that improves ourselves? Why do we just build up temples that reminds us of our hate? I want to be peaceful with all the movements deep inside, all the curious convolutions that shall make me open wide. I want the taste of the beauty in my soul that’s left behind. I wanna see all the flowers that are growing while I’m blind. I am still blind for the beauty in my soul that’s left behind...
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BORDERS 04:42
They’re wounded men. Yes, I guess they are wounded men. They can’t feel themselves anymore, then they have to be wounded men. Oh they took a torturous way to be rejected by folded arms now... The European Union..., what do we want to be? A place of human rights, a place of moral entity. But our comfort is based on robbery... They’re wounded men, while we’re addicted to control again! Why...? No we don’t do what we can..., no..., why...? Nationalism is no answer at all! We should arise from old thinking, we’re not more worth than them! Yes we are brothers and sisters! We need to be there for them! Who placed all the cruel orders to build up deadly borders? These borders show us our failure, a deadlock in human behavior. We are not the only ones, with the right to dignity!
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ECLIPSE 02:52
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FARCE 05:39
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WICKED 07:36
We hold on to time, do we? We hold on to time... We take our lives, do we? And through them away... Without any pain, without any pain. We should have stayed together. Without the time you could have been mine. A bite of the fruit leads us into pleasure. It’s not a crime, no! You could have been mine. Why do we keep the past heavenly present? We fear the time, wanna be divine... Yes, we need to take a look into the mirror... Lies fade away, no reason to stay! You’re not aware while you think you’re clever, you deny the human impact on the weather. So you didn’t recognize the ladder, that you wish to climb up high without matter! I’m not aware while I think I’m clever, I’m destroying myself, yes I waste my treasures. Sometimes I’m blind, I’m my biggest hater, but at least I’m trying to be my only saviour! Oh you wish to climb up high forever! Oh without the time... oh without the time you could have been mine. You should have seen the signs, but you believed in science. You should have seen the science, but you believed in signs.

about

Dear friends,

here it is finally, …our official studio debut album! A lot of love and heart went into this one. We started working intensively on this album in November 2021. Until the studio recordings in February and March 2022 these ten very different tracks came up. In addition to many new songs, there are also a few older pieces and tunes of us on the record, which we have specially rearranged for this album and packed them into new garments.

We hope very much that we can inspire you with that piece and we can send you on an impressive sound journey with FORGOTTEN STARS :)

With much love,

Franzis & Elia

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What does say the media and the public about FORGOTTEN STARS?

"A congenial, musically and technically highly talented duo. 'the bottomline' convinced the audience completely." (Bernd Schöneck on our Pre-Release Concert at 'Heimathirsch' in Cologne on Oct. 05, 2022 | Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger)

"Clever music with exciting fine structure and very successful lyrics." (Karsten Zimalla | Westzeit)

Franzis Lating and Johannes Elia Nuß create as the bottomline on "Forgotten Stars" as a duo soundscapes where nothing is missing. The pianist and singer and the drummer, who also knows how to translate abstract ideas into grooves and rhythms, present themselves as a congenial duo that curiously moves between different styles. [...] Impressive music full of power and wildness [...]. A sound journey with many unforeseen highlights." (Christoph Giese | Jazzthing & Blue Rhythm #146)

"Lating sings [...] with soulful timbre, jazzy with ebony tint, quivering vibrato, intense high notes. With ancient pathos, keysarpeggio and trip hop beat to new world sound in matte gloss finish [...]." (Rigo Dittmann | Bad Alchemy #116)

"Heavy drum grooves under elegant piano and keyboard playing and a voice that can do many things: Snuggle, agitate, clash, whisper, invoke, break and threaten. In any case, it not let you be unaffected." (Anja Buchmann | WDR 3 Jazz)

"It was really an incredible, intertwining, well-rounded, absorbing experience. Simply genius! There is genius behind it: They are not forgotten stars, but not yet known stars I would say." (a guest at our album release concert on Oct. 27, 2022 in Cologne | quoted in the radio show "Neugier genügt“ on WDR5).

credits

released October 28, 2022

Franzis Lating Grand Piano, Vocals, Rhodes, Synthesizer, Percussion Johannes Elia Nuß Drums, Synthesizer, Drumsequencer, Percussion

Recorded and mixed by Moritz Gröger at Hertzkammer Studio in Cologne in February 2022. Mastered by Michael Thumm at Bauer Studios Ludwigsburg.

All songs arranged and produced by Franzis Lating and Johannes Elia Nuß. Except ECLIPSE, arranged and produced by Franzis Lating. All music published by Bauer Studios Verlag.

STONES, HADES, FORGOTTEN STARS and ECLIPSE composed by Franzis Lating. IRIS LUMINARIS, FATHER, URANUS, BORDERS, FARCE and WICKED composed by Franzis Lating and
Johannes Elia Nuß.

Lyrics of STONES, HADES, FATHER, BORDERS and WICKED written by Franzis Lating and Johannes Elia Nuß. Lyrics of IRIS LUMINARIS and FORGOTTEN STARS by Franzis Lating.

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Photography: Peter&Pablo
Artwork: Michel Holzapfel/felantix.de

Thanks to Leon Wilmanns, Albert Töws, Patrick Joest, Manuel Weingand, Bettina Bertók-Thumm, everyone at Bauer Studios and our families for tremendous support over all the last years.

Extra super special thanks to Judith Kobus, Moritz Gröger and to all our faithful fans and supporters who believe in us and our project!!! Couldn’t made it without you!

Thank you all so much!

Visit our homepage and get in touch with us:
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info@thebottomline.earth

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the bottomline Köln, Germany

the bottomline is a multi-genre music project from Cologne admired for their captivating “melancholic-sweet-cathartic” sound. Franzis Lating and Johannes Elia Nuß draw on alleged contrary musical traditions and combine them with great keenness to experiment to a “highly individual, novel experience", that morphs somewhere between Jazz, Classical and electronic music. ... more

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