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My name is Evan. I am a composer, sound designer, and a pianist. I've released a number of records under the name Bluetech and a new tech-house album under the name Evan Marc. This is a forum for my deeper, long form, and more cinematic musical expression.
"Neo-classical ambient ala Phillip Glass and Brian Eno, Evan Bartholomew’s latest is an astonishing accomplishment that is thick in production and beautiful in scope. Appealing melodies dash in and out of “Borderlands”, somehow never quite finding a particular home to sit down and percolate with. Fresh approaches to an intriguing and timeless tradition seem to be what Evan likes to do. I enjoyed “Borderlands” a lot—it can set a mood or reinforce one." - smother.net
"Along the lines of a softer Roger Eno, Evan Bartholomew transcends the universe with a nicely balanced recording. "Borderland" is an excursion into the realm of ambient, soothing and the less rushed sounds. Trickles of oboe, bits of flute, and a ton of synth create an atmosphere that allows the listener the luxury to dive right into. Serenity pervades every single pore as the sounds wistfully seep in and out of your ears. Like a gentle prairie wind and the sound of the flying crows up ahead, the music is a tranquil oasis for the mind and soul." - Gaz-Eta Review
"A classical pianist with a fondness for Eno that gets his kicks by being a DJ, Bartholomew ditches his Bluetech persona to put himself front and center as a new ambient star. Different from a lot of other ambient works by being denser and more compostionally oriented, Bartholomew breaks new ground in a genre that has a tendency to marginalize itself. This might be ground zero for 21st Century head music." - Midwest Record
Evan Bartholomew - Secret Entries Into Darkness (Somnia)
Your album has been selected as Best of 2008 [so far...] !!! Thank you so much for contributing your music to the world! To see the entire list read official post at Headphone Commute.
this works are actually recorded in the nice tourist town Dresden where Jan lived for 4 years and on several places in germany/thuringia and denmark/sjaeland +++ Jan recorded all with an old 4-track, one old minidisc-recorder, two old guitars and some old pedals and a brand new notebook+++Enrico Wuttke aka Flim helped him out with some Fieldrecordings and beautiful Piano Pieces+++ new tracks are growing every day on his minidisc-walkman he records woods, highways/autobahnen, shopping centers, farms, children rooms, camping sites, rehearsel rooms and roofgardens ...etc and himself and his friends and familys+++ since spring 2007 he lives on a farm in thuringia, germany+++to be continued +++
not only is your music the most amazing and incredible music i've heard in such a very long while but you've also turned me onto to so much other great music via links on your label's website and your podcast.
so they fell, clowns of distressed eunuched minds outcasts, rejected rats pushed by their fears. lamenting values and cursing time. triggering god? EVERYTHING'S MINE so now all should blame a wall of shame beneath the truth's shades of grey. 'coz noone cares to taste from inside it seems so 'real' to live as a bee and not as the hive. forget how it is to stregthen your pride. Now is never and never is fine consuming one's sight to feel just more bright.
I mind the time of youth gone by inside our hearts laid down, behind each and every tide we treasure most. And fall it is what dress you white despite the wounds, distress and ruins we walk across your psyche's loss,
our lucid holes of absent gods and broken loves
I strugle inside the cage we might let stare inside to breach, then hide the truth that binds our longing hopes. And fall from grace as we fail to face our gone cold trace inside the mud of this world, so mad and so misplaced.
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Dear Evan, I just bought the cd "Secret Entries" #128. It arrived safely and I'm listening to it now in full. The packaging is simple and sensual. what's inside is more than I could hope for. Many thanks for your continued contribution to sound. I would ask many others to not just say "thanks for the add" If the music is something you like, pay the piper. Much love and respect.
At a FREE concert this Friday, Feb. 8, at Christ Episcopal Church (NE 47th & Brooklyn, Seattle) my "Voyageur Suite" for brass quintet and my "String Trio for George Crumb" will both get their Seattle premiere. More details at Pleasure for the Ear.
Evan Bartholomew - Secret Entries Into Darkness (Somnia)
In the second installment of his Somnia series, a Portland based modern classical composer, Evan Bartholomew, continues his meditative descent through Secret Entries Into Darkness. The minimal ambient sound slightly curves around the deep entrance, brushing the wet moonlight on the cave's bold stone, before it breaks into sheaths of white, and vanishes with echoes. Unlike its predecessor, this journey in this follow up is more rhythmic and darker, sustaining an eerie and desolate feeling, as the composer dissects the abstract lines between the realms of life and death during our weightless dive into Xibalba. In his streaming hypnotic voyage, Bartholomew perfects his production and the art of revealing his soul to the listener through music. The gravity of the emotion is immediate and heavy; for when the album ends, we are left alone and helpless, at the bottom of the void, only to be born again. Once again, the album is signed, numbered, and limited to 777 wax sealed copies packaged in sewn, soy ink stamped, recycled paper. Recommended if you like Steven Reich, Brian Eno, and Philip Glass. Absolute favorite track : Soft Spots In The Tyranny Of Matter.
