Bartellow - Panokorama (2017)

Bartellow has long been associated with the ESP Institute though 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.

Tracks:
01. Bartellow - Sala Sensi (5:08)
02. Bartellow - Clypp (5:28)
03. Bartellow - W.C.R. (2:01)
04. Bartellow - Shufflington (5:51)
05. Bartellow - Ex% (6:57)
06. Bartellow - Amnesia (2:23)
07. Bartellow - Operator in Excelsis (6:44)
08. Bartellow - Saba (5:31)
09. Bartellow - Notion (5:15)
10. Bartellow - Panokorama (4:44)