SKETCHES OF A DRAMA (Music for Film and Theatre Vol. 1)

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1.	Gyroscopes, 02:37	buy track
2.	I saw them twisting 02:56	buy track
3.	dangerously close to the abyss. 01:58	buy track
4.	By the grace of god 01:10	buy track
5.	the foxes are awakening, 02:14	buy track
6.	escorting the girl safely through the forest. 01:35	buy track
7.	But then something fateful 01:21	buy track
8.	emerges from afar. 01:02	buy track
9.	When spring is over 01:41	buy track
10.	the dusty drought follows. 01:50	buy track
11.	Spaceships are no longer working 00:49	buy track
12.	while bubbles are rising. 01:21	buy track
13.	Hidden words creep out from the soil, 01:08	buy track
14.	and they tell us they have seen 01:44	buy track
15.	beauty and innocence. 00:50	buy track
16.	Don't they? 00:52	buy track
17.	Blowfishes go ashore from time to time! 05:00	buy track
18.	Echoes of the broken frame. 01:45	buy track
19.	PLUTO (Original Instrumental) 10:51	buy track

about

SKETCHES OF DRAMA is a compilation of musical sketches, melodies and soundscapes that we created in the course of the year 2021 when we received orders to compose music for two TV documentaries (SWR and ZDF) and a theater production (AlarmTheater Bielefeld). Unlike the full-featured songs we usually compose, arrange and play in our band context, these 19 tracks are mostly vague subjects that are often dark and melancholic, sometimes they promise hope or drift into madness, like the scenes for which they were created.

The titles of the tracks are the individual lines of this story, which can be read and listened to from beginning to end, but also in a specially chosen order. Thus, SKETCHES OF A DRAMA always results in a different auditory picture :) We are very curious to know what your associations are!

We really hope you will enjoy it!

Franzis♥ & Elia☆

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released December 24, 2021

SKETCHES OF A DRAMA is written, arranged, and performed by the bottomline. Composing by Franzis Lating. Recorded by the bottomline between May and August 2021. Track 01-18 Mastered by Dominic Euringer. Track 19 Mixed and mastered by Christoph Scheidel | 79Sounds Studio, Cologne.

Franzis Lating - e-piano, synthesizer
Johannes Elia Nuß - percussion, drum machines and synthesizer programming

Realized with friendly support by the Ministry of Education, Culture & Science of North Rhine-Westfalia (MKW NRW).

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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