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'Ramble Song' is the name of a project which comprises an album and a theatrical production. With 'Ramble Song' – a cinematic concert or concertante film – Belgian theatre company BERLIN propels music and the cinematic into the foreground. A poetic ramble full of beauty but also disappointment unravels in a series of tableaux. The work meanders between melancholy and black humour, inspired by the figure of the drifter ¬ the nomad who cultivates a form of indecisiveness and who lurks in each of us. Onstage there is a theatrical installation. This organism in sleep mode, with something that resembles a continuously audible and visible respiration, is animated through live music and footage. The soundtrack is wide-ranging, featuring echoes of new-classical music but also energetic krautrock and a diversity of synth-driven soundscapes. The daily noise between our ears here gives way to a musical universe that gets crystallized in images – and vice versa. 'Ramble Song' features three musicians onstage, fired up by BERLIN’s in-house composer Peter Van Laerhoven. who made a name for himself as a film composer and rock and pop musician. He has been creating BERLIN’s soundscape from the very beginning. He will be assisted live by Tim Coenen , Eric Thielemans and Tine Hubrechts . The performance will be accompanied by a physical and digital release of the music. 'Ramble Song' differs from earlier work in formal terms, but is vintage BERLIN in terms of inventive puzzling with