- Label
- Artifact
- Catalogue
- ART-L29
- Eancode
- 8016670146704
- Format
- LP
- Release Date
- WK 49, 06 Dec 2021
- Type
- world exclusive
- Stock
- In Stock
Bottin presents: Quality Time
Quality Time
Mp3s & jpegs- 01 65A Quality Time
- 02 QT8 Oh Child
- 03 CT5 High Rise
- 04 65B Cavalli Arabi
- 05 65F Immer Geradeaus
- 06 AN0 Iliac Crest
- 07 XT4 Motif Fleuri
- 08 SD1 Il Sogno Di Una Cosa
Bottin is back with LP an unusual album: an instrumental album of faux "Library Music" aptly titled QUALITY TIME. Searching for a virginal sound rolling back to the zero degree in contemporary music, Quality Time explores the sonic range of 1980s era Casiotone portable synthesizer as is, with no filters or additional timbres modifying its sound aesthetics. An exercise in composition where the reduced plasticity of sound makes us imagine music as building bricks, rather than a commentary of the times. Quality Time is Library Music made out of sheer intellectual honesty, as opposed to the anonimity of producing music as a commodity. The Casiotone alphabet allows Bottin to assemble seductive instrumental tracks marked by alpha-numeric acronyms and interspersed with sourced fragments of dialogues recalling the contemporary existential alienation and postmodern idleness.