Kevin Bartlett (musician)
Kevin Bartlett (born Albany, NY 1952)is a composer/performer who specializes in complex, multi-layered electronic symphonic compositions influenced by both Classical and progressive Rock styles.
Released on his own label, Aural Gratification, Bartlett's 2003 "Near Life Experience" was selected as one of Echoes' staff's Top 25 albums of that year. Backroads Music listed NLE as one of the Top 5 Albums that "Matter Most" in 2003. MusicAL Starstreams chose NLE as #6 of the Top 20 albums of 2003.
Bartlett's label also released nine albums by singer/songwriter Happy Rhodes. Bartlett played guitar both on the albums and on the live performances supporting them. His playing style has been described as "Gilmour-esque," but he also lists Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Yes, David Bowie and Peter Hammill as influences.
Bartlett, in his youth, played in several bar bands in Albany and Rochester, NY, ran a lighting design and stage management company and managed a record store. His experience also includes booking and concert promotion and theatrical scoring. He scored the world premiere of Toni Morrison's play, "Dreaming Emmett", as well as creating scores for New York's Circle Rep, The Nikolais Dance Theatre Company, and The Empire State Youth Theatre Institute. He wrote and performed the soundtrack for an internationally released documentary on Christa McAuliffe and the space shuttle Challenger tragedy: Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars as well as thousands of commercials. Bartlett even scored the numbers and alphabet for Sesame Street.
Bartlett's music is featured in Tribe of Heart's Peaceable Kingdom The Journey Home, created and edited by Jenny Stein and James LaVeck, along with music by Joy Askew and Kirsti Ghoulsen. Music from his latest recording, "Glow in the Dark" is featured in the film.
Sidelined by an accident in 2002 (Bartlett was run over by a van in the parking lot), he spent a year undergoing surgery and doing physical therapy to restore function to his crushed shoulder. He lives and records in Woodstock, NY.
Discography
2007 Glow in the Dark (pending)
2006 Parachute - Bar Scott
2005 Self Portrait - Barbara Lombardo
2003 Near-Life Experience
1999 Echoes Livingroom Concerts Vol 5
1998 Many Worlds Are Born Tonight -Happy Rhodes
1998 Sleepy Hollow 25th Aniversary
1996 Puddleskin Waving - Mike Bassett
1996 Echoes Livingroom Concerts Vol 2
1996 The Keep - Happy Rhodes
1997 Aural Gratification Vol 2
1995 Aural Gratification Vol 1
1995 Album Network Adult Rock
1995 Live at the World Cafe Vol 1
1994 The Muse of Intent - Mitch Elrod's Swim Team
1994 Building the Colossus - Happy Rhodes
1993 Rhodesongs - Happy Rhodes
1992 Equipoise - Happy Rhodes
1991 Warpaint - Happy Rhodes
1990 Thing Thang
1989 Spatial Thanx
1988 7
1987 Breadfeet
1986 Evocations
1985 Incantations
1985 Abberations
1984 Automations
1984 Deviations
1983 Rhinebeck Variations