Bartellow - Panokorama (ESP Institute)

Bartellow has long been associated with the ESP Institute through Tambien, a trio formed alongside Bavarian cohorts Marvin and Valentino, who have released seminal dancefloor material over recent years. With his debut album Panokorama, we are invited into a completely different world of Bartellow's creation-a place where influences become a melting pot of mood, nuance and texture, and where instrumentation is abstracted from a variety of cultures, including those that exist solely within his imagination. 
Bartellow has found a way to merge Primitivism with Retrofuturism, identifying their point of intersection and reveling in their union across ten songs. While his academic background as a Jazz musician certainly informs both his progressive approach to composition and non-linear production, it is his obsession with electronics and synthesis that shape his current musical climate. 
The title Panokorama stems from Bartellow's visualization of the album, a surreal landscape with a foreign presence centrally embedded, a "panorama" punctuated by a "ko"-although a hybrid word that reads as nonsense, it somehow feels and sounds just right
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‘EX%‘ is a perfect example of Bartellow’s mixtures of complex build-ups and enthralling sound design. As feverish tribal perc patterns rip through a shimmering millefeuille of varnished synth layers and exotic-friendly robotics, Beni invariably emulates a confusing blend of teeming organicity and sleek audio synthesis – like a labyrinth of gold-plated mirrors reflecting images of digitally-rendered jungle scapes, up and far beyond the limited comprehensive skills of a simple human perspective. Fascinating.

Bartellow - Panokorama (ESP Institute)

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