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Bartz: Pictures of Earth and Space
by John W. Patterson
In 1987, I picked up a copy of this release on the Audion label in LP format. I thought, “Hmm, cool cover, good label, lotsa cool instruments listed.” When I put that LP on I was an immediate Bartz-head. The nearest guitarist-composer/ sound-smith I could compare Bartz to was Steve Hackett but Bartz goes way beyond Hackett in pulling sounds out of his guitar and embellishing it all in a dreamworld of swirling, warping, shifting, glistening imagery.This 1995 ...
Continue ReadingBartz (Imagineer #29/100): Evolver
by John W. Patterson
If you missed Bartz’s amazing Pictures of Earth and Space release in 1987, and re-released in 1995 or still can’t find a copy of the limited edition Build Your Own Planet then by all means seek this excursion out.For spaced-out, infinite guitars, stretched-out sounds and shimmerings into the nether regions of missing matter, ambient spaces interspersed with errant dimensionaloid detritus of gilded weirdness – do get a Bartz CD. This is not like anything you have ever heard. ...
Continue ReadingBartz: Build Your Own Planet
by John W. Patterson
After Bartz’s amazing Pictures of Earth and Space release in 1987, the Audion label went “belly-up” and other labels snubbed the music Bartz had prepared as follow-up to PoEaS. It was a demoralizing time with everyone scrambling for Yanni-clones. Bartz waited. The Internet explosion allowed freedom for Bartz to bypass record label gauntlets. He dusted off the years and has now re-issued the music once unheard.Bartz sent me a signed copy of Build Your Own Planet along with ...
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