This music is seldom about the surface attractions of melody... but more about the core spiritual communion within atmospheres... It's about suggestion. It is about the feeling of awe you get peering into a star-lit sky and the wonder of it all. Music has an ultimate power to reach the human spirit without the illusion of words. This music evolves...shimmering as a visually stimulating sonic exhibit of what can fascinate inner senses. It conjures an immense Universe in exquisite equilibrium - a fantasy of reality it seems... So... sit back, close your eyes and observe the beautiful realm of possibilities this music has to offer. -Bartz
'Pictures of Earth & Space' ...The debut album from Bartz for Larry Fast's Audion Recording Company. Bartz was signed to this cutting-edge electronic music label with other such luminaries as original Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips, the masterful Wendy Carlos, and Larry's own Synergy releases. P.O.E.A.S. has a plush, cosmic allure derived from exploration of advanced recording equipment and unique stringed instruments- all generously warped into new uses. These are Grand, Majestic instrumental forrays. The music has a very distinctive, visual and vivid sonic character as one-of-a-kind song trips. That's what Larry dug about it!
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"Bartz-part recording engineer, part guitarist- takes to the skies with this full bodied, robust musical romp. The space of this trip is not the synapse-snapping pull through the corridors of the mind, but a more participatory journey with all the energy and drama of science fiction. Bartz creates thick symphonic sound horizons, then leaps and flies from plain to plain on his strange instruments. This is a speaker cranker-upper affair that makes you want to jump in your convertible and blast through the countryside leaving sound trails from your 200-watt speakers!"
-Carol Wright/NAPRA ReVIEW
"Bartz's solid craftsmanship and provocative use of mixed guitar textures are the basis for instrumentals that sparkle and fill the entire sonic spectrum. His blend of acoustics and electrics throughout make an undulating soundscape that constantly undergoes organic changes. This harnessing of high technology is a breath of fresh air!" -Tom Mulhern /Guitar Player Magazine
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