E-mail received in 2000
>>> When I got Evolver I was bowled over. I put it on auto repeat & listened to it for a couple of days straight, even while I slept. Do ya think I like it? :) Thanks again for the immense enjoyment I get from your art of sound!
Greg LeBlanc
>>> I am totally in love with your music..
I have been telling everyone about it...
Tracy Preschat
>>> Bravo Bartz! Gotta have more!
Enjoyed Build Your Own Planet! Please send me p.o.e.a.s.
Dave Perfetti
>>> Damn! Bartz, not only is your album an Evolver but so are you! Your album is awesome- I love the phaser effects on the first track-killer!. The rest of the album is equally kick ass, though- given my media brainwashing which prohibits my eyes and ears from experienceing things deemed unappropriate, i find myself needing to be in the right mood and mindset to thoroughly enjoy this album. Once i was able to obtain this unobtrused, objective mental state, your album gave me goosebumps- for real. You are the master. Even before i listened to it my eyes entered a blissful entanglement with your album cover. Dude, seriously- this is the coolest album cover of any that i own, i love the detail, like the ripples around the ankles of that dude on the back. and the freaky dude on the earth, and that's really cool how you deviated from the norm and made the cd notes different with a triangle design. Bottom Line: I am thoroughly impressed with your latest efforts!!!. Thank You for the sonic tapestries of inspiration and enlightenment.
Adam Vine
[prog rock, jazz fusion, jazz rock, jazz, pysch/trance, space, electronic, ambient, essentially eclectic excellence]
[Eclectic Earwig Reviews]
Eclectic Earwig
Reviews
E.E.R.
Bartz: Pictures
of Earth and Space (CD, 41:28);
Imagineer IMAG1001, 1995 re-release
Cyberhome: http://stringstation.com
E-mail: imagav@aol.com
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 re-release,
(w/ extra tracks), is space-music, space-
rock, space-guitar, space-progressive, space-newage and yet it
avoids all pitfalls of each and melds together the BEST of all
worlds. I kid you not. THIS IS A MUST HAVE for fans of guitar,
synth, and space music heads.
Be aware that
Bartz has now released 2 follow-up albums to
continue the magic. These are highly recommended limited edition,
signed releases! As of last month Bartz was down to a mere
handful. You had better get yours now.
Besides being
a master musician, Bartz is a master sound
engineer, new music instrument inventor, and one heck of an
amazing visuals artist. I am so glad to have finally had this
chance
to thank him for all the superb music!! Highest of
recommendations! ~ John W. Patterson
Personnel: Jim
Bartz Ð all incredible sounds and uniquely Bartzian
effects, except one piano track by Art Guillermo, some synths
on
one tune by Glenn Rupp, a patch by Bruce Breckenfield, and flute
by Mark Krumich
Tracks: 11 seamless,
unforgettable journeys into space and vision
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Bartz: Build Your Own Planet (CD, 43:04);
Imagineer 39/100, 1999, limited edition release
Cyberhome: http://www.niia.net/~jdminc/
E-mail: imagav@aol.com
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 other CDs. I found a very similar gestalt to the
PoEaS guitar and wildly cool, effects menagerie of sound
and glory but also a slicker smoother, headier, slightly jazzier
approach to Bartz's endless attempt at "freeing" the
listener to
wander some inner Cosmos of dream. Bartz had also more firmly
meshed each track together into a nearly perfect whole-album song.
How ignorant those record labels of yesterday were not to see
the
gems here! Maybe now, in the 21st century, Bartz's 100% unique
sound will be heard and appreciated for the genius and deep head-
trip that it offers. Get yours before this collectors item is
history.
Unique guitar and amazing sound engineering effects await you.
~ John W. Patterson
Personnel: Jim
Bartz Ð all incredible sounds and uniquely Bartzian
effects, except cymbals and tombongos by Bill Romer, some drums
on one tune by Tony Jefferson, and stray sax by Mike Carson
Tracks: 7 seamless, mind voyages into deep space and inner visions
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Bartz: Evolver (CD, 49:33);
Imagineer #29/100, 2000, limited edition release
Cyberhome: http://www.niia.net/~jdminc/
E-mail: imagav@aol.com
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 Ð do get a Bartz CD. This is not like anything you
have
ever heard. Many will be either very lost or very blissed-out
once
this head-room descends and all time-space continuum boundaries
fall away.
This is the
musicks of the mid 21st century. When folks of the future
look back for echoes of their time, they will point to Bartz as
we
now point back to our own litany of visionaries.
And will this
music continue? Oh but yes, as Bartz sub-titles this
release "Cosmic Guitar Experiments Volume 1" so will
we hear and
see more from him. He is currently working on very exciting things
that go beyond the range of a mere CD and developing new
instruments to create his sonic vision for tomorrow. A
recommended step in the right direction is . . . Bartz.
~ John W. Patterson
Personnel: Jim
Bartz Ð all incredible sounds and uniquely Bartzian
effects, except sparse grooves and freakazoidisms by a handful
of
available Bartz fans and friends . . .
Tracks: 10 meshed,
sonic vistas unfold between your ears, as
headphone heaven for consciousness expansion . . .
Available in Signed & Numbered Editions
