Previous Page (Galleries).Bernard Xolotl was born in France in 1951. At age 17 he realised that he needed more freedom to live and express his ideas than the one the old Latin Europe could provide him with. Therefore, he left his country and traveled all over the world. In 1974 he settled in California, where he lived for 19 years. Currently living in France, he often travels to the United States. In his teenage years, Bernard became interested in electronic music, which in France had its first pioneers working within the trend known as "Concrete Music". In the early seventies he was at the core of the rising Cosmic Music, more particularly related to the most classical trend of the genre, the "School of Berlin". Xolotl met Klaus Schulze in 1972, during a festival in Switzerland, where he went together with Timothy Leary. He also made friends with Manuel Göttsching, Terry Riley, and other important leaders of the musical revolution of the seventies. He worked with some of them. For instance, he assisted Terry Riley and LaMonte Young during their European tours. Bernard's recording career began in 1976, with a collective record in San Francisco. Soon after, Music by Xolotl was released. He has made from the seventies up to now many and very good electronic music works, several of them never released. 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.
Essential works:
-MUSIC BY XOLOTL
-JOURNEY TO AN ORACLE
-RETURN OF THE GOLDEN MEAN
-PROPHECY
-PROCESSION
-LAST WAVE
-MEXECHO
-TRISTANY
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Or here, in Amazing Sounds, at:
-BERNARD XOLOTL, THE MUSICAL PHILOSOPHER (interview)
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