THEOLOGIAN
THEOLOGIAN is the industrial music project of Lee M. Bartow, a longtime contributor to the world of unorthodox music, initiated in 2008 after the dissolution of his previous decade-long project, NTT.
In addition to a discography exceeding 60 releases, from 2016-2019, THEOLOGIAN worked with Syracuse-based “spoken arts” label CADABRA RECORDS, providing sound design and original scores for several vinyl releases adapting the “weird fiction” of H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Roland Topor, Thomas Ligotti, and Jon Padgett. These albums were produced in collaboration with the voice talents of Andrew Leman (co-founder of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society and director of THE CALL OF CTHULHU), noted Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, independent film actor Laurence R. Harvey, as well as contemporary weird fiction author, and editor of Vastarien literary journal, Jon Padgett.
“The works of this American artist have always followed a self-imposed regime of writing artistry, contextualized in respect to his actual psychological reactions to the world. If he has chosen noise as the material on which to labor his faith it is a matter of relative incidence, because I believe Lee Bartow is in fact a prodigious poet.”