Xolotl, Bernard

Bernard Xolotl has made from the seventies up to now many and very good electronic music works, several of them never released. Nevertheless, this musician is a clear example of the artist who rebels against the commercialism imposed by the record labels and who, because of that, misses the chance to earn loads of money. He conceives his artistic career as a style of life.
After several years of silence, a silence motivated not by a lack of creativity but rather due to financial poverty, Xolotl re- appears with the re-release of several of his most legendary works, which revealed him as an artist of great imagination in the seventies and eighties, and which today continues to be far more innovative than a lot of the music labeled as "alternative". During the early 1970s, Xolotl began creating music of his own, working in studios across Europe and the US before settling in California in 1974, where he slowly built his own studio. Two years later he recorded his debut album "Music by Xolotl."

Xolotl, Bernard
Bernard Xolotl + Daniel Kobialka - Procession

Artists: Bernard Xolotl & Daniel Kobialka
P: 1982 / 1993

This classic album by the German Erdenklang-label is a re-release of the Bernhard Xolotl album that originally came out back in 1982. For this occasion, the 18-minute bonus track "Saturn Return" was added.  "Procession" celebrates the harmonious fusion of violin and viola (played by the international acknowledged Daniel Kobialka) and the serene, heavenly and uplifting electronic textures of French musician Xolotl.  The outcome is of an overall tranquil, spacious and sometimes even romantic nature as the tapestries of melodic cosmic music delicately unfold. Personally, the sections without Kobialka’s lyrical contribution have my preference. In the booklet, Xolotl states the reminiscent sounding bonus track "Saturn Return" –being part of a Xolotl special on Radio Bremen- was played at least once on cultural/national radio programs worldwide. Those looking for serene, valvenized electronic soundscapes with haunting impact, look no further.

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Bernard Xolotl - Last Wave

Artists: Bernard Xolotl
P: 1982 / 2006
Bernard Xolotl is a maticulous craftsman, with a firm belief in the power of art and music. It's funny to speak of hand-made synthesizer music, but in these days of quick-fix perfect beat loop collages, the real work behind these rich synthesizer-violin pieces, created on multi-track tape and not computer memory, projects warmth all the way into your heart. This is not kitsch New Age, either. If anything it's of the Berlin Synth School, drawing a respectful inspiration from the 19th century masters, weaving a rhythmic and harmonic tapestry in subtle colors, totally rejecting the 20th century "dentist chair experience" music of dodecaphonists and electronic noise advocates, while also avoiding the overpolished facile arepeggios of the New Age bin. If you like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, and wish Jean-Michel Jarre wasn't so slick, you should explore this and also search for Xolotl's other albums, which are sadly not easy to find. A critic put it very well once, that Xolotl's best work is "achingly beautiful." Finding these passages is its own reward.

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Bernard Xolotl - Mexecho

Artists: Bernard Xolotl
P: 1991
Nice melodies, all played with synthesizers.

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Various Artists - Music for the 3rd Millennium Vol.2

Artist: Bernard Xolotl, Michael Stearns, Nick Rhodes,...
P: 2001
LTD 1000
Unreleased Tracks celebrating the masters of electronic, ambient and progressive music.

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