Babylon Berlin (3LP+2CD)

BABYLON BERLIN – THE INGENIOUS SOUNDTRACK OF THE OUTSTANDING AND HIGHLY ACCLAIMED TV-SERIES NOW ALSO AVAILABLE ON TRIPLE GATEFOLD VINYL Following the great success of the series, the triple gatefold vinyl will follow on March 9th 2018 in a high-quality physical package. The soundtrack works as an impressive musical accompaniment to the striking pictures of the series. While scores commonly evoke emotions, this series' score is pre-eminently an accentual element of the series' perception and the sonic reflection of the sensual delight that is BABYLON BERLIN. The score's composers are renowned German movie-director Tom Tykwer, one of the series' three directors, and Los Angeles-based Johnny Klimek. The two music buffs had previously created the award-winning and highly acclaimed soundtracks for Run Lola Run and Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. Symphonic subtleties are towering up, becoming gloomy-menacing sonic entities, before they're being taken on a journey to the amusement-elated Berlin in the year 1929 by Klezmer-esque clarinets. It's a city where instability becomes a creeping part of existence which performs a socio-political tug-of-war with Berlin's ubiquitous hedonism at that time. Performed by the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and New York's electro-acoustic chamber-band Absolute Ensemble, BABYLON BERLIN's score is a sensual enjoyment, concurrently challenging and emotionally intense. The second part features songs used for various of the series' scenes. The compilation starts with a song accompanying a key scene in the series: Stage heroine Nikoros, personated by singer Severija, enters the bandstand of Moka Efti, a dance club, to sing Zu Asche, zu Staub, the soundtrack's lead-single. The androgynous character in tail-coat with a moustache, accentuating feminine curves, combines past and present as a trailblazer for Lady Gaga surrounded by an air of Marlene Dietrich. Chanson, the classic Lied-form of Weimar Republic and pop merge into an ecstatic soundtrack, combining songs by the Bryan Ferry Orchestra, Nikko Weidemann & Mario Kamien and German Chansonnier Tim Fischer. Having produced appr. 38 million Euros in expenses, BABYLON BERLIN is the hitherto costliest German TV-series. The 16-episode series started with great success in October 2017, with licences bought by most European countries and North America. 
"BABYLON BERLIN " is the first joint TV-series project by X Filme Creative Pool, Sky, ARD and Beta Film. Tom Tykwer, Henk Handloegten and Achim von Borries are directors and screenplay writers. The series aired on October 13th on Sky and will also be broadcasted on ARD in 2018. Based on an internationally bestselling thriller by novelist Volker Kutscher featuring detective Gereon Rath, „BABYLON BERLIN“ is set in the decadent and glamorous world of 1920's Berlin. Unbound hedonism, drugs and politics, homicide and art, emancipation from sexual stereotyping and extremism - BABYLON BERLIN navel-gazes the mores of 1920's Berlin, perfectly staged. Welcome to the city of sins, welcome to BABYLON BERLIN!

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