Quality Time: a Library Music project by Bottin

Lockdown Videos by Bottin, edited by Margherita Klee Fallani.

Bottin continues his unstoppable run of creativity with a new instrumental album of “Library Music” 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 synthesizers as is, with no filters or additional timbres modifying its sound aesthetics.
An exercise in synthesis 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.

Quality Time is a collection comprised of instrumental tracks plus intermissions of incidental sounds, released by Industrie Discografiche Lacerba, available on Vinyl and limited edition CD.
Composed and performed by Guglielmo Bottin on Casiotone MT65 and MT400V
Recorded in Cannaregio, Venice, Italy.

Executive Producer Lapo Belmestieri
Liner Notes Paolo Cesaretti
on the cover:
Casiotone MT-65 cloth replica embroidered by Laura Biagini
photographed in London by Coppi Barbieri
Layout The Anti B NYC

Lacer29 - Industrie Discografiche Lacerba
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